Bush’s Sensitive Ad
They just showed the Bush photoshop ad on CNN and I noticed one other thing about the ad that’s worth mentioning :
Seriously. Here’s a transcript :
Script For “Whatever It Takes”President Bush:
These four years have brought moments I could not foresee and will not forget.
I?ve learned first hand that ordering Americans into battle is the hardest decision, even when it is right.
I have returned the salute of wounded soldiers who say they were just doing their job.
I have held the children of the fallen who are told their dad or mom is a hero but would rather just have their mom or dad.
I?ve met with the parents and wives and husbands who have received a folded flag. And in those military families, I have seen the character of a great nation.
Because of your service and sacrifice, we are defeating the terrorists where they live and plan and you?re making America safer.
I will never relent in defending America, whatever it takes.
This crybaby crap is from the same guy who criticized John Kerry for using the word “sensitive” and whose supporters use the word “French” as an insult. But apparently he deserves our vote because he elicits a basic level of compassion and kindness when he’s around people who have suffered. Is he trying to say that John Kerry wouldn’t return the salute of soldiers or hold kids whose parents have been sent away?
If George W. Bush was using this ad to run for finish-line hugger at the Special Olympics, then he’d totally have my vote. But when it comes to picking who’s gonna run the country, I need a little more than faux compassion.
By the way, don’t believe it when people describe this ad as his “final push”. At least one more ad has come out since then and it’s (surprise, surprise) an attack ad.
11 comments
Copy link for RSS feed for comments on this post
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Has anyone else seen the Bush ad running in Ohio which focuses on him hugging a girl whose parents died on 9/11? Same principle. Or lack thereof.
Comment by Mike — October 29, 2004 @ 9:51 am
I live in Ohio and when I saw the 911 girl ad I almost puked. What, three years later and after he fought to create a 911 commission, this pisant has found compassion. Only on film, I’m afraid. And in the commercial, it does not state whether this was a re-inactment or original footage of the hug. Dis-Gust-ing!
Comment by Betty — October 29, 2004 @ 10:12 am
I live in PA, it’s running there as well. What really gets the vomit to my throat is that last freeze frame where he’s looking directly into the camera. That fake compassionate “I’m so gonna use this in an ad” look. Truly sick!
Comment by Chrissie — October 29, 2004 @ 11:37 am
For living in a non-swing state, I’ve been inundated with campaign ads. It’s kind of cool after having lived in Oklahoma where campaign ads were scarce.
Comment by e-rock — October 29, 2004 @ 11:47 am
Does anyone know hot I might view this ad? I am living in Germany now and am not allowed to view this ad or even the bush website. Just one more example of how low these guys will stoop. Apparently if you don’t live in the country you are disqualified from viewing anything on the official site of the man who is supposed represent my country to the rest of the world. Unbelievable.
Comment by rob — October 29, 2004 @ 12:35 pm
I live next door to a swing state and this commercial is running constantly. Everytime I hear: “I?ve learned first hand that ordering Americans into battle is the hardest decision, even when it is right”, I want to know if it was easier ordering Americans into battle when it is wrong.
Comment by kamachanda — October 29, 2004 @ 12:57 pm
“We done filming? Get this damn thing off me!”
Comment by Kip W — October 30, 2004 @ 4:21 pm
kamachanda said, “I want to know if it was easier ordering Americans into battle when it is wrong.”
You would be asking the wrong person that question if you ask Bush and his supporters. In order to find out, you must ask John Kerry. He voted for it, then said it was wrong, but he would still vote for it again.
That question actually assumes that it was wrong. Many of us believe it was the right thing to do.
What is not right, is we are being too kind and careful in Iraq. We are wasting time and money trying to bring democracy and freedom to a nation of heathen that is soured by a religion of hatred toward non-Muslims. We need to permanently neutralize the threat they pose to the rest of the world.
We need to pull our troops out, then use our own WMDs (a few strategically placed nukes) to get the job done and over with. Let the terrorists have their worthless sand box, and let them figure out how to put the pieces back together when there is nothing left worth having. They would be too busy trying to figure out a way to only survive in a water-less radioactive desert than to pester the rest of the world with their allah blah blah jihad crap.
Comment by Democrat-4-America — October 31, 2004 @ 4:12 am
Mr. Rove, why are you posting under the name Democrat-4-America?
As long as you are proposing such violence I would like to remind you of a saying I read in some book somewhere:
“He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword”
Please impale yourself privately, I have better things to do with my life.
Or perhaps you might curl up with a good book.
Comment by kamachanda — October 31, 2004 @ 6:10 am
kamachanda, here’s were that quote originated:
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Matthew 26:51-52 (King James Version)
Comment by Democrat-4-America — November 1, 2004 @ 7:38 pm
Glad you took the book option.
For another paraphrase (or half remembered quote), ‘the meek shall inherit the earth’.
Please inform the other neocons, they appear to be going about it the wrong way.
Comment by kamachanda — November 2, 2004 @ 2:36 am