'I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush' - Reuters

[dArKeR]

By Mark Egan

New York - Families who lost relatives in the September 11, 2001, attacks voiced outrage on Thursday at President George Bush's first ads of his re-election campaign that use images of the devastated World Trade Centre to portray him as the right leader for tumultuous times.

"Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57, of New York, who is active in several September 11 family groups. "What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9/11 as a springboard for his re-election."

"It's entirely wrong. He's had 3 500 deaths on his watch, including Iraq," said Doyle, whose 25-year-old son Joseph died at the trade centre.


'I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush'

Long time Bush adviser Karen Hughes defended the four commercials - which began running on Thursday in at least 16 important battleground states - as "tastefully done."

"September 11 is not some distant event in the past," Hughes told ABC's Good Morning America. "It's also important to recognise the impact it had on our national public policy."

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[Mz Pip]

1. Tastefully done

opportunistic exploitation is opportunistic exploitation none the less. I think people will see this for what it is, tasteful though it may be.

Bush is pissing off the victims of 9/11 and somehow that will not reasonate well.

MzPip
:dem:

[BradCKY]

2. The Saddam before voting Bush: Not a good quote for us

Things like that can be EASILY exploited by Bush.

[Monument]

3. I sincerely doubt...

...that anyone in their right mind would vote for Saddam before voting for Bush.

And yes, that's quite a bad quote. I understand that the person quoted was probably trying to merely express EXTREME dissatisfaction with Bush, but when taken as a literal statement it's quite absurd.

[sandnsea]

7. I know

I swear I don't know why people say stuff like that. That just got Bush 100 votes every time it's repeated and it is likely to be repeated alot. Gawd people can be stupid.

[thebaghwan]

4. Write the White House. Tell the how pissed off you are about this. Let's

see if they will pull the ads. Another victory for us just like AWOL axnd it keeps them off balance and doesn't allow them to build momentum.

The White House is at www.whitehouse.gov

[dae]

5. That oughta feel like a kick to the groin.

and Karen Hughes, how the Hell can you have such an ad "tastefully done"?:freak::crazy::eyes::argh:

[MrSlayer]

6. Errrr.....That's taking it a little too far.

A comment like that just makes them look like maniacs. Bad, bad, bad.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. The guy lost his son. He sounds like a grieving father angry at such

a callous politicization of his child's death.