A thought on Bush's 9/11 campaign commercials - He'd rather

[zbdent]

spend the money on the commercials than funding the actual security.

The Democrats tried to put more money into the Homeland Security. Bush vetoed it because of protections for the actual workers enforcing homeland security.

[imax2268]

1. here's some thoughts from moveon.org

(moveon.org)

Bush told us he wouldn't use 9/11 for political purposes. As reported by the Associated Press on 1/23/03, President Bush said "I have no ambition whatsoever to use this as a political issue." Now he's doing precisely that.

Our tragedy is being exploited. By using 9/11 imagery, President Bush's re-election ads cheapen a profoundly significant event that killed thousands and hurt all of us.

Just two weeks ago, the Bush/Cheney campaign attacked the notion of "playing politics with national security." As reported in Newsday on 2/20/04, Bush-Cheney spokesman Kevin Madden responded to charges that the White House has overtly politicized 9/11 by saying "I can't believe said that. They are playing politics with national security."

Bush still won't testify in front of the 9/11 commission. As the Daily News reported, many family members are especially upset because President Bush still refuses to meet with the whole 9/11 commission, which was set up to determine what went wrong in the lead-up to the attacks.

The political use of 9/11 is a major part of the Bush re-election strategy. The 2004 Republican Convention is scheduled for the first week of September, timing which, according to the New York Times (4/22/03), "will allow Bush to begin his formal campaign near the third anniversary of Sept. 11."

[AndyP]

2. Did clinton use

pics of the OK city bombings in his ads. Does anyone know this???

[edbermac]

3. How about an anti-Bush 9/11 ad?

Does anyone know the timeline of when Bush's aide told him about the planes crashing to the time he actually got around to doing something? Didn't he sit there for 20-30 minutes listening to a bunch of 5 year olds reading stories? I'd run an anti-Bush ad like this:

1) Open with both towers on fire
2) Cut to Bush in class being told of it; put a clock at the bottom
3) Back to NYC, sirens wailing, towers smoking..
4) Cut to Bush just sitting there, clock reads 5 mins.
5) Back to NYC, towers billowing, people watching in horror...
6) Cut to Bush still sitting, clock reads 10 mins. etc

Just keep cutting back and forth between NYC burning while Duh-bya just sits there for 30 mins listening to the Cat in the Hat.

Strong leadership on 9/11?