Stephanopoulos: "They have no intention of taking the ad down."

[Paragon]

Regarding the Bush 9/11 ad, just now on ABC World News Tonight.

So much for that rumor.

[rucky]

1. Cheap advertising AND free publicity

maybe we should just ignore instead of looking for something to be outraged by & let the public see it for what it is for once instead of telling them what they're supposed to think.

[meg]

4. The mood has been destroyed

Whether you like the ad or not, the image and the mood they wished to create is gone. BAWAAAWAAA

[rucky]

8. the mood smacked of insincerity from the get-go

people may be fuzzy about facts, but they can smell insincerity a mile away - and that goes for the people who are outspokenly offended by it. If you ask me, I'll say it's crass. But if you don't ask me, people are going to question my motives for expressing my opinion. I'm just saying, I hate it when the other side does it to us.

[displacedtexan]

2. Give it 24 hours (until field poll results are in).

I'm sure they'll put up new ads and claim that they always meant to change ads on this timetable.

They always flinch when Dems stand up to them.

[rock]

3. Why should they, the damage is done

And they have no sense of propriety. What a clueless idiot. Can he really find his way out of the Oval Office by himself?

[pinto]

5. Busboy's only let in the Oval Office for photo ops......

[central scrutinizer]

6. good!

That will keep this item on the front burner and the more people ask questions about *'s actions and inactions prior to and on 9/11, the better. Make no mistake about it - 9/11 is *'s Achilles heel - his exploiting it for political gain, coupled with a lapdog press, has given him invulnerability. But one well placed arrow in that heel, and it all collapses.

[sadiesworld]

11. I agree.

He has now opened himself up to every question about pre-9/11 failures, investigation stonewalling, family connections to the Saudis, etc. Kind of difficult for him to successfully argue that the dems are politicizing 9/11 after this.

[historian]

7. Not to worry

the families as well as the firefighters who were involved in 9/11 are extremely angry and upset at this blatant tasteless ploy to gain votes.
this will come back to bite him (as everything else he does)

[LeftCoast]

9. Check out the cnn poll!

http://www.cnn.com

Is it appropriate for President Bush to use images from the 9/11 attacks in campaign ads?

Yes 37%

102501 votes

No 63%

176956 votes
Total: 279457 votes

-=-

Not scientific, but still that's almost 300k people who've expressed an opinion so far!

[estherc]

10. Families upset

The news reports I'm hearing are that the victims families and firefighters are upset and "even some Democrats." That's an OK take on it. Who could criticize the families?

[LeftCoast]

12. I think this poll implies that a lot more than the families are offended

The Bushies are arrogant though and so far they don't seem to want to stop playing the ads. I hope they keep playing them till all the independent voters have turned against them.

[General Discontent]

13. And don't forget the best part

"I'm George Bush and I approved this message."


So who is he going to blame these ads on when they backfire? Some staffer? Remember when "some staffer" painted over the made in china logos on the boxes in the backdrop? They had no idea, it was some staffer. Remember when the flap over the mission accomplished banner..."some staffer" So who gets the blame for this latest fiasco?

Repeat after me.... "I'm George Bush and I approved this message."


LOL:crazy:


DWolfman

[YNGW]

14. Wow. What a surprise.

Whoo-hoo. It's another rumor. Right here in River City. Who would have guessed. Never saw it coming. Blind-sided.

[jmaier]

15. I hope Rove runs this ad until the GE

I really don't think the country is going to tolerate overtly politicizing 9/11. They are going to have to be more subtle and one thing this group is NOT, is subtle.