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May 31, 2004
THE DISGRACE THAT IS THE BUSH RE-ELECTION EFFORT
Must reading here. The Washington Post today ran an article that highlights the simple fact that George W. Bush is running the dirtiest, most negative, and most untruthful campaign in American political history.
Bush's $200 million war chest figures to buy a lot of ads... and so far, analysts have found that fully 75% of the Bush ads produced so far are negative -- anti-Kerry ads.
Three-quarters of the ads aired by Bush's campaign have been attacks on Kerry. Bush so far has aired 49,050 negative ads in the top 100 markets, or 75 percent of his advertising. Kerry has run 13,336 negative ads -- or 27 percent of his total. The figures were compiled by The Washington Post using data from the Campaign Media Analysis Group of the top 100 U.S. markets. Both campaigns said the figures are accurate.
49,050 ads telling people how bad his opponent is. 75% of his ads are negative. After three and a half years in office, George W. Bush has accomplished so little, has such an abysmal track record, that he can't even spend 1/4 of his campaign money talking to you about what he's done for you. His entire strategy is to make you afraid of the other guy. Then again, I don't know why I'm surprised... George Bush's whole presidency has been about making you afraid. Afraid that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction... that he was ready to use on US soldiers. (He didn't.) Afraid that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. (He didn't.) Afraid that criticizing him might somehow undermine our armed forces. (It doesn't.)
But there's something even more disgraceful and pathetic than the fact that Bush won't even run on his own record. It's the fact that all these negative ads he's running? They're lies. They are documented untruths.
The charges [are] all tough, serious -- and wrong, or at least highly misleading. Kerry did not question the war on terrorism, has proposed repealing tax cuts only for those earning more than $200,000, supports wiretaps, has not endorsed a 50-cent gasoline tax increase in 10 years, and continues to support the education changes, albeit with modifications.
Scholars and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. Though stretching the truth is hardly new in a political campaign, they say the volume of negative charges is unprecedented -- both in speeches and in advertising.
Not only is George W. Bush afraid to run on his own record -- afraid to tell you what he's done to you over the last four years, what he'd do to you in the next four, and how badly he has shredded American credibility and prestige around the world. He's afraid to even tell you the truth about his opponent. He can't win on his own record. He can't win against the opponent's real record. So he has to lie and make up statements from John Kerry to try and scare you into voting for him.
This man will clearly say anything, do anything, stoop to any level in order to keep the office he and his minions stole from us in November 2000. He's capable of anything -- I'll go on record one more time with my belief that Bush knows exactly where bin Laden is, or even already has him captured, and is just waiting for October to spring his "capture" on us to try and October Surprise his way back into office. George W. Bush is the biggest disgrace in the history of the presidency of the United States of America. What baffles me is how anyone could even consider voting for this embarassment of a human being.
