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- Wade
Six days left until the 2004 election.
And it couldn't come soon enough.
One cannot turn on the radio or the television without being bombarded with campaign ads. John Kerry. George Bush. Patty Wetterling. Mark Kennedy. John Kline. Theresa Daly. Ironically, I don't even fall into the districts that those last four are running in, but I'm lucky enough to see their campaign ads. (Marty Sabo has represented District 5 so long that he isn't even campaigning this year... a decision I appreciate.)
Really-- has a political ad ever changed anyone's mind? I mean, these commercials must hold some sway over voters, right? That's why millions and millions of private and tax dollars are spent on them? That must be justified somehow... but I sure can't see it. I can't imagine using the information relayed in a candidate's campaign ad as the basis of whether I vote for said candidate or not... As Jim Morrison once said, it's all a bunch of bullshit. (Well, it wasn't exactly Jim Morrison, it was Val Kilmer playing Jim Morrison, but you get the point.)
Let's use Mr. Kennedy as an example. As I said, I don't live in his district, but his ads are so asinine I'm tempted to move to the 6th district just to vote against him.) I could probably find the commercial online somewhere, but a) I've seen it enough to have it memorized and b) I don't want to give him the satisfaction of having more hits to his website. So.. roughly...
pan in on cute old couple, sitting on a veranda
"We see Mark Kennedy in church every Sunday, and we know he'll fight for our prescription drug benefits."
Ummm.. connection? I know that they want to play up the Christian Conservative angle, but how stupid. The old lady needs someone to fight harder for her drug benefits, because she's obviously off her meds.
tight shot on Kenned
"It's wrong for some to suggest that we'd be safer with Saddam Hussein still in power."
Listen... idiot. No one has ever, EVER suggested that. What has been (rightly) suggested is that telling the public falsehoods in order to invade a country is a bad thing. Sure, great, Saddam's out of power. Party. But that's not the reason we were told, so you shouldn't consider the war a victory. Mission accomplished, indeed.
still photo of Wetterling
"My opponent says she wants to fight terror over here, but I believe we need to find and kill the terrorists where they live."
Oy. First, Wetterling said she wanted to increase funding and staffing for police and fire departments. So obviously she's an evildoer. Second, I do not understand Kennedy's (and Dubya's) assertion that the war on terror can ever be "won" in other countries. As I understand it, they want to:
1. Find everyone in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Canada, Luxembourg, France, and everywhere else that hates freedom and (therefore) America.
2. Kill them
3. Assuming the actions in 2. provoke more foreign evildoers to hate America, find these people.
4. See 2.
5. Repeat.
Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? A never-ending war. Hey... probably would make Halliburton happy. Hmmm.
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