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Timber--

I think the problem with the ad isn't som much what it's trying to say than they way its trying to say it. There nothing wrong with Bush telling Americans that he handled the crisis well...the problem is that the ad runs off almost like a trailer to a move. The music, the drama, the wanna be "Braveheart" speech segment...it's taken a very real, very tragic event, and turned it into a prop for a movie trailer designed to get Bush re-elected.

My intincts tell me that the Bush campaign was hoping to re-spark the patriotism after 9/11, and it's backfiring because it comes off no better than cheesy 'WWII type' propoganda segments. I swear, visions of those tacky 'commericals' from Starship Troopers keep coming to mind evrytime I see it.

What he did/is doing certainly isn't/wasn't illegal, but it was/is in bad taste.

Finally, to whoever it was that posted earlier that they 'lost sypathy' for the 9/11 widows because of 'squabling over the insurance payouts' SHAME ON YOU!!

The actions of a few should in no way infrindge on the tragedy of the event, or the severe emotional stress felt by the victims. More to the point--I'm fairly certain it was the lawyers doing all the hemming and hawing. How dare you attempt to chastize these people and suggest that now they deserve what they get. If my body is ever traped along on ANY politiians campaign ad, they'd better be damn sure they stay out of my way in the after-life, cause I'd voluntarily set myself ablaze to be the eternal hell-fire under their ***.

Oh, and as for Vietnam vets speaking of their war merits in campaigns...yeah, they were there, they saw the blood and carnage THEY were the ones getting shot at (and the 'images' show in the past aren't anywhere close to the patronizing patriotism displayed in this fiasco) Kerry/McCain/'insert your guy here' didn't fly to Viatnam, do some speeches over a bombed out bunker full of dead bodies, and then throw the video on the air implying their own heriocs during the battle.