Must Read: Mo Dowd Nails Bushco today: "See Dick Run"

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/opinion/04DOWD.html?hp

See Dick Run


By MAUREEN DOWD

WASHINGTON

You've got to admire the Bush re-election ads being rolled out today. With up to $60 million to spend by convention time, the campaign is plotting the most expensive political advertising seduction in history, and you can see the money on the screen.

In scary/gauzy images, the president does his best to shift the blame, take the credit and transmit concern about regular folks — waitresses, welders, firefighters, black children, black seniors, middle-class families — when he really spends more time helping his fat-cat corporate friends.

Mr. Bush continues to imply that we should be scared because we're not safe, so we need to keep him to protect our national security. Which seems like a weird contradiction. If he's so good at protecting us, why aren't we safe?

The president doesn't hesitate to exploit 9/11 in his ads, even as he tries to keep 9/11 orphans and widows in the dark about what really happened.

Mr. Bush's ad flashes a shot of firefighters removing some flag-draped remains of a victim from the wreckage at ground zero even as he prohibits the filming of flag-draped remains of soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. You might call the Bush ads, an homage to Ronald Reagan's famous ads, "Mourning in America."

more...it just gets better and better...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I think he wasted big bucks on this ad

because it is going to raise more questions. Why is he dragging his heels on the 911 investigation? Why hasn't he funded firefighters, etc, for homeland security? How in the world did going into Iraq weaken the terrorists-or did it create more?

[stldemocrat]

5. Firefighters, etc.

I think that Bushco is hiding behind the idea that first responders (firefighters, emt, etc) are a local responsibility. I feel that this should be turned over to the Department of Homeland Security. The federal government needs to take responsibility.

[MrBenchley]

2. Hilarious column

Thanks.

[muchacho]

3. excellent article

Very entertaining!

[flpoljunkie]

4. For those who missed it...it will make your day!

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