Posted by Len on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 12:52 pm CT in Politics
I posted an ad from the RNC a few days ago. It’s only fair that I now post the DNC’s latest. It may just be my liberal pro-America bias showing, but I think the one from the DNC is much better…
If the Bushies were truly interested in changing the course in Iraq, they would have done so before now, just two weeks before the midterm elections. It’s all talk, anyway. Believe me, they have no plans to change anything. A vote for a Republican, any Republican, is a vote for the same crap we’ve endured these past six years. Don’t let them fool you. Please.
Possibly worse than making fun of someone’s disability is saying that it’s imaginary. That is not to mock someone’s body, but to challenge a person’s guts, integrity, sanity.
To Rush Limbaugh on Monday, Michael J. Fox looked like a faker. The actor, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, has done a series of political ads supporting candidates who favor stem cell research, including Democrat Ben Cardin, who is running against Republican Michael Steele in a Maryland U.S. Senate race.
“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Limbaugh told listeners. “He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act….This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”
Limbaugh was reacting to Fox’s appearance in another one of the spots, one for Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill against Republican James M. Talent.
But the Cardin ad is similar. It is hard to watch, unless, for some reason, you don’t believe it. As he speaks, Fox’s restless torso weaves and writhes in a private dance. His head bobs from side to side, almost leaving the picture frame.
President Bush and his aides are annoyed that people keep misinterpreting his Iraq policy as “stay the course.” A complete distortion, they say. “That is not a stay-the-course policy,” White House press secretary Tony Snow declared yesterday.
Where would anyone have gotten that idea? Well, maybe from Bush.
“We will stay the course. We will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed,” he said in Salt Lake City in August.
“We will win in Iraq so long as we stay the course,” he said in Milwaukee in July.
“I saw people wondering whether the United States would have the nerve to stay the course and help them succeed,” he said after returning from Baghdad in June.
But the White House is cutting and running from “stay the course.” A phrase meant to connote steely resolve instead has become a symbol for being out of touch and rigid in the face of a war that seems to grow worse by the week, Republican strategists say. Democrats have now turned “stay the course” into an attack line in campaign commercials, and the Bush team is busy explaining that “stay the course” does not actually mean stay the course.
Posted by Len on Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 pm CT in Politics
Have you seen the “I’m a Democrat” videos on YouTube yet? They’re spoofs of the Mac v. PC ads currently running on TV. The “I’m a Democrat” videos aren’t running on any TV networks that I’m aware of, but they’re pretty good. So far, there appear to be four of them. Check them out:
Posted by Len on Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 at 2:31 pm CT in Politics
George W. Bush told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News this morning that he believes the Republicans will still be in control of both houses of Congress after the upcoming midterm elections.
Posted by Len on Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 10:33 pm CT in Politics
The RNC will begin running a new ad on cable television this weekend. It’s called “The Stakes.”
This may have worked a couple of years ago. I don’t think it’ll work now. People have seen how poorly the Republicans have managed the war against terrorism. They now place more trust in the Democrats when it comes to their safety. Terror is no longer the strong card for the GOP. I think this ad will backfire on the Republicans.
It strikes me as more than a little strange that the Republicans are proud of all this stuff that has happened during their watch.
They have no choice, however. They have to go with the fear card. They have nothing else.
NEW YORK (AP) — “Grey’s Anatomy” star T.R. Knight says he’s gay, but hopes people don’t consider that “the most interesting part of me.” The 33-year-old actor addressed rumors of his sexuality in a statement to People magazine Thursday.
“I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there,” Knight’s statement read. “While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.”
Knight plays Dr. George O’Malley on the popular ABC drama.
Federal agents tell ABC News a man in Milwaukee has admitted sending phony NFL terror threats as part of a “writer’s duel.”
The agents say the Milwaukee man and a second suspect in Texas attempted to “outdo” the other in producing the scariest terror threat.
According to the agents, the Milwaukee man said he used the Internet to find future football games and combined them with Ramadan dates to concoct a believable terror story.
The suspect interviewed in Texas has corroborated the Milwaukee man’s story, according to the agents.
Why the government chose to publicize it in the first place without doing a little investigating and corroborating is anybody’s guess.
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