That’s another good example, to be sure, but if you’re ranking scare messages in political advertising, “If you vote for my opponent, a black man will rape your wife,” ranks pretty far below, “If you vote for my opponent, everyone on Earth will die in a nuclear holocaust.”
Yeah, who can forget when Lyndon Johnson was the “peace” candidate. And I wore a “AuH2O!” button and distributed leaflets for Goldwater. Ah, but I was young and foolish, now, I am no longer young.
The thing that strikes me most is that the Republicans have stopped listening to themselves, since the ad basically serves as a reminder of the disastrous effect of their policies. Osama bin Laden? Oh, yeah, we didn’t catch him and didn’t really try. Iraq? Oh, yeah, that was our doing as well. Etc.
I was thinking something like that when I saw the ad-- do they really want to remind people that Bush has so far failed to capture ObL? And the scene where you could see the sillhouettes of “terrorists” walking thru the trees… I’m sorry, but that just made me laugh. They’re coming to get you!!! :eek:
Works for me. To Gitmo with the lot of them. 
I knew someone would pick up on that as soon as I typed it! 
as did I. I was a politically abused child, even was forced to distribute campaign materials for this guy
::shudders::
You committed to those interpretations?
'Cause (IMHO) the message of the Horton ad(s) was “Dukakis is so soft on crime he lets rapists and murders out on the weekends” vs daisy girl’s “Goldwater wants to use nukes in Vietnam” (that whole “extremism = virtue / moderation = vice” thing).
Sorry, but, nuking third world countries ranks pretty far below crime in the American reptilian brain.
CMC fnord!
I see your politically abused childhood and raise you this one! (Yup, leader of the eleven to vote against impeachment)
Handed out campaign fliers and went on a motorcade through town with him, I’ll never forgive my Mother (I was only 10, but even then I new better)!
eww. But did your father set aside individual copies of None Dare Call It Treason?
I don’t have the bandwidth to view that thing but there is a big difference in saying do this and I will activally blow up something and saying if you vote from them I can’t stop the terrorists from blowing up something because I won’t be in a position to do so, and the opposing party has shown that they don’t want to or are unable to understand the threat.
Well, there would be, except that, in fact, it is the governing party which does not understand the threat. This is easily demonstrated by the fact that the governing party, instead of completely and competently cleaning up that hotbed of terrorism and home of known terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden known as Afghanistan, chose instead to take advantage of the inflamed passions of the public to avenge personal grudges against Iraq.
No, but Dad did have a Confederate flag on the garage :eek: !
Mind you, we lived in Westfield NJ, sorta midway between Plainfield and Newark, Dad walked the streets of our fine town with his M1 carbine that July of '67, so that brought the total to 47+.
His M1 wasn’t one of the ones stolen from the Plainfield Machine Company, he stole his from the US Navy.
Yeah, I should mention that Dad was a Westfield Special Police Officer so I guess that made it OK (although since WSPO’s mostly directed church traffic on Sundays, and Dad missed out on both the land invasion of Japan (damn A-bomb) and Operation Crossroads (damn A-bomb), he might have been a little trigger happy, maybe not so OK).
CMC fnord!
[aside to Crow]
Man, I can relate! My father lied his way into the Navy, and arrived at Iwo Jima too late for the action. Afterward, when he spoke about it, there was an unmistakable tone of regret, of having missed out. I absolutely cannot grasp that. [/aside]
Considering their respective body counts, it’s an insult to al-Qaeda.
And yes the Republicans are effectively "the propaganda arm of al-Qaeda ". They whip up fear in America, while at the same time providing them with all the “recruitment ads” they could ever want in the Middle East. Given that the Republicans took out Saddam, they are also al-Qaeda military arm.
What did Osama want? Americans out of Saudi Arabia, the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in the Middle East, and America humiliated.
What do we have today? Americans out of Saudi Arabia, the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in Iraq, and America humiliated.
Hmmm…
Well, to be fair, no form of government has been fully established yet in Iraq, hence the civil war. I bet Osama’s not shedding any tears over that, though.
And don’t forget, this is a two-way street. Osama did a pretty effective PR job for the Republicans just before the '04 elections. Kind of a quid pro quo thing, in a twisted sort of way.
Osama aligns with a particularly virulent anti-Shia sect. It isn’t likely that he would be pleased to see a Shia theocracy take hold in Iraq.
Patent this and sell T-shirts.
“Don’t blame me! I voted for Loathing!”
I expect he likes it better than a secular state.