tweet slobbering over B* TV ad, calls it "powerful"

[buycitgo]

yeah.....the STENCH is powerful

he's got two Bushites on, plus his lavaging self, against Steve McMahon, ostensible dem.

they just ran the first horrid horrid dumbo ad, complete with whining, bathetic violin track

just insipidly treacly garbage

insulting

[buycitgo]

1. so CNN's been running them, Lehrer will be showing it, too

will they do the same when Kerry starts running ads?

wtf is up with the DNC? don't they have DIME ONE, or what?

[RoundRockD]

2. I think it's despicable how he exploits 9/11. Have they no shame. n/t

[nostamj]

3. his utter WHORING tonight is unbelievable

"BRILLIANT"

"they don't mention the negative issues"

economy tax cuts WAR - just happy and STRONG and POSITIVE

hey tweets, how about UTTER AND ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT??

give him credit though, he can gush and fellate at the same time without choking

[lancdem]

7. Of course they don't mention "negative" issues

They can't run on the economy, etc. Duh!!!

BTW, Josh Marshall is not the least bit impressed. He calls the Bush campaign theme "It's not my fault."

[nostamj]

4. the POS is showing the SAME ad AGAIN!

in FULL! this is NUTS. blatant. sickening.

[CatWoman]

5. I'm watching

but something told me to check out Josh:

you look at the TV ads the president just unveiled today, you quickly see a main -- probably the main -- theme of his reelection campaign: it's not my fault.

Yes, there are all sort of bad things going on. The economy's been rough. The deficit is deepening. Job growth is barely registering. There's all sorts of chaos on the international stage. But it's not my fault. When I got here there was a recession already, which I didn't have anything to do with. That's was Clinton's fault. And the same with all the corporate scandals. And then Osama bin Laden got involved and that wasn't my fault either. And that Iraq thing didn't completely work out. But that's the CIA's fault. So if there's anything that's bad now it's not because of anything I did. It's because of 9/11. And if it's not because of 9/11 then it was already broken when I got here. So don't blame me.

Now, I think that does pretty much sum up what the president and the White House are telling the public. But it's important to draw back and recognize that up until this point that argument has largely worked. Now, however, I think people are beginning to question the argument.

By most objective measures, economic and international indicators of national well-being have been fair to bad for most of George Bush's term of office. But for much of that time we were in either the immediate aftermath of 9/11, building up to war, or in the aftermath of war.

If you were to plop down in late 1943, for instance, you could point to all sorts of negative signs -- rising deficits, crises abroad, etc. But Franklin Roosevelt would have said, quite plausibly, that we'd been attacked at Pearl Harbor, we were fighting a two front war across two oceans, and that things might well get worse before they got better.

Now, I don't think that's a remotely reasonably analogy. But it is the argument the Bush White House has been making for some two years. And it's had a lot of success with it. Everything that's bad has been framed as fall-out from 9/11 or our response to 9/11.

What we're seeing now is that these two things -- 9/11 and the current state of the country -- are coming unhinged in the public mind. If they stay unhinged, President Bush looks less like a 'war president' than a president who just won't take responsibility for anything that happens on his watch.

Thus the new ads, the message of which might fairly be summed up as "It's midnight in America. But if the Democrats were in, the sun might never come up!"

-- Josh Marshall

www.talkingpointsmemo.com

[sadiesworld]

6. First time I"ve seen the ad

Christ, if he knows what to do to make us more secure, prosperous, etc....why in the f*** han't he done it.

[girl gone mad]

11. Eactly.

Those ads won't play very well because everyone at home will be asking that same question.

If you know exactly what to do, then why aren't you doing it?

Bush has a record of failure that started long before he got to the WH.

[eleny]

8. The ads are washng over me

I know who the shrub is - a lying liar. This gushing on Tweety means nothing. He doesn't have the guts to have a strong Dem to discuss them.

[onecitizen]

9. Tweet's back on bush bandwagon I.........

noticed last night. There's something strange about this "crush" he gets on certain people. I'm back to not trusting him at all again.

[kskiska]

10. Hardball is just a * infomercial.

He keeps repeating the ads and talking with wingnuts about how wonderful they are.

[kskiska]

12. Tweety played Reagan's "Morning in America" ad

and said he "felt chills." How can this guy stand himself?

[DemMother]

13. Tweety's favorite moment is the cheerleader with his bullhorn

Matthews lives in the trivial world. He can talk for 20 minutes about Teresa's scarves. He loves the moment when Bush co-opted the firefighter's bullhorn and stood on the smoldering ruins of the WTC, a tomb for hundreds, and stirred up the crowd like a cheerleader at a football game.

This was after his MIA adventure flying around the country and going down the rabbit hole at SAC.

I have a theory about these media guys/converted politico pundits. Think about it. They were probably the biggest nerds (I don't like this word, but I'm using it to make a point about Tweety) in high school. Can't you just picture the round-faced Matthews, sidling up to the popular kids, laughing the loudest at the jock's jokes, accepting some demeaning nickname just so he could be part of the group.

It's pathetic.

[jean]

15. welcome - and that's a heck of a take on matthews - nail on the head

[kskiska]

16. Rove actually WAS the class nerd, right down to the pocket protector

Everybody hated him. It's all in "Bush's Brain." He dropped out of college because he was spending too much time on politics and not enough on school work.

[Beetwasher]

14. So No Mention About The Disgusting Fact that Bush is STILL Whoring Out

9/11 for his cheap political gain?