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03/03/2004 Archived Entry: "About those Bush campaign ads..."
About those Bush campaign ads...
The firefighters are not amused.
"I'm disappointed but not surprised that the President would try to trade on the heroism of those fire fighters in the September 11 attacks. The use of 9/11 images are hypocrisy at its worst. Here's a President that initially opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and now uses its first anniversary as cause to promote his re-election. Here is a President that proposed two budgets with no funding for FIRE Act grants and still plays on the image of America's bravest. His advertisements are disgraceful."Bush is calling on the biggest disaster in our country's history, and indeed in the history of the fire service, to win sympathy for his campaign. Since the attacks, Bush has been using images of himself putting his arm around a retired FDNY fire fighter on the pile of rubble at ground zero. But for two and a half years he has basically shortchanged fire fighters and the safety of our homeland by not providing fire fighters the resources needed to do the job that America deserves.
And the Kerry campaign weighs in.
George Bush talks about steady leadership in his new multi-million dollar, revisionist history ad campaign, but unfortunately you can’t provide ‘steady leadership’ without credibility. And George Bush has lost credibility with the American people. He said he would create 3.9 million jobs, but 3 million more people have lost their jobs. He said he would make health care more affordable, but 2.8 million more have lost their health insurance. He said he would cut the federal debt by $1 trillion, but his policies have added $1 trillion more, leaving the federal debt at over $7 trillion. Most astonishing, George Bush’s ad features a shot of the wreckage of that tragic September day almost 3 years ago, and the firefighters who so bravely worked to save lives. What he doesn’t tell you is that only 10 percent of fire departments across the nation have personnel and equipment to respond to a building collapse, only enough radios to equip half the firefighters on a shift, and breathing apparatus for only one-third. The only thing steady about this President is his steadily leading our country in the wrong direction. It’s time for a change in America, and time to get things back on track.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Oh, surely, surely this cannot be! Our President, politicizing 9-11?? In his very first paid ad of the "official election season"?
Okay, I will lay off the sarcasm now, and also stop calling you "Shirley."
Kerry's response BTW was about 83 percent too long. It should read:
"George Bush talks about steady leadership in his new multi-million dollar, revisionist history ad campaign, but unfortunately you can’t provide ‘steady leadership’ without credibility. The only thing steady about this President is his steadily leading our country in the wrong direction. Most astonishing, George Bush’s ad features a shot of the wreckage of that tragic September day almost 3 years ago, using that scene for partisan purposes when he refuses to testify before the committee investigating that attack.
"For shame."
See? I little tightening and it's a kick in the gut rather than a warmed-over stump speech.
Posted by Xan @ 03/03/2004 10:45 PM NY
Xan,
Damn, that's good. See why I want you to sign on?
Posted by editor @ 03/04/2004 02:25 AM NY
Kerry's problem is the problem Gore had - he can't be succinct for the life of him. he drones on and can't make a poitn in under 5 minutes.
he better fix that and get a charisma transplant ASAP or its gonna be a long election season.
Posted by Jason @ 03/04/2004 10:56 AM NY
It's sorta like I heard someone say once, "I ask you what time it is and you tell how to build a clock"
Posted by KSA01 @ 03/04/2004 03:41 PM NY
