Saturday, June 26, 2004
Very, very strange. Shrubya's new campaign video, rather than talking about him or his policies (which would need him to actually have policies), is predictably an attack on John Kerry and his 'Coalition of the Wild-Eyed'. What's raised a few eyebrows is that they've included some rejected ads from MoveOn, ads that were cancelled because they used imagery of Adolf Hitler. I don't think they're implying here that voting for the Democrats is like voting for Hitler (though I'm fairly confident you can find an influential Republican supporter who compares Kerry to Saddam Hussein and then another who compares Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler, so there's a two-step connection) but there's no real sense here that these are 'crazy people' talking. Whether you're a sane, reasonable person, or whether you are a Republican, the end result of this commerical is that it does a fairly good job of trashing Dubya.
It's fairly consistent with current White House policy. "This is not a time for pessimism and rage" says the advert. Short for "This is not a time for asking the President where Saddam Hussein's WMD are, not a time to be asking him about the numbers of American troops killed in Iraq or the much vaster number of Iraqis dead, not a time to be asking him about what happened to those promises that the peoples in Afghanistan and Iraq would be better off once the United States invaded their country, not a time to ask him about his countries isolationist stance (except when they need something), not a time to ask him about his administrations habit of ignoring any international treaty that gets in their way then crying foul when their enemies decide to do the same. You are Free. You are Free to do as we tell you. Go back to sleep America. You are Free. You are Free to do as we tell you. Go back to sleep and vote Bush this November."
It's fairly consistent with current White House policy. "This is not a time for pessimism and rage" says the advert. Short for "This is not a time for asking the President where Saddam Hussein's WMD are, not a time to be asking him about the numbers of American troops killed in Iraq or the much vaster number of Iraqis dead, not a time to be asking him about what happened to those promises that the peoples in Afghanistan and Iraq would be better off once the United States invaded their country, not a time to ask him about his countries isolationist stance (except when they need something), not a time to ask him about his administrations habit of ignoring any international treaty that gets in their way then crying foul when their enemies decide to do the same. You are Free. You are Free to do as we tell you. Go back to sleep America. You are Free. You are Free to do as we tell you. Go back to sleep and vote Bush this November."
