[ladyinred]

I am amused at the liberals as usual. For the past several months they have been using the war for their own political benefit, bashing the President over it, screaming about WMD's etc. But the actual CIC is not supposed to use it politically? Right!

[Waco]

Memo to Blathering Dan: When the RATS use 9/11 in poitical ads,,,,,go long on the 1st Amndt./free speech thing,,little constitutional history, little hypocrasy,,,oops,,,scrath that. (Don't worry folks, the RATS planned 9/11 polit. ads all year, and will likely still use them.)

[Boot Hill]

Pharmer:   "methinks thou dost protest to much!"

Shakespeare:   "The lady protests too much, methinks." -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene II

Shakespeare's use of the word, "lady", would still be appropriate when applied to Kerry.

--Boot Hill

[The South Texan]

You are so right about these ads. They kicked the Rats right in crouch. The Bush team doesn't need to back down. In fact they should run some ads with the Planes crashing into the towers and ask John F'ing Kerry if he thinks this is a law enforcement problem.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Re: Bush ads, We hit a nerve!!!...apparently - Bush ads have been showing on Philadelphia TV and tonight the Kerry people started running counter ads - something about Bush is sending all our jobs overseas and now we find out he wants to cut overtime pay for workers which will make us all even poorer - they're running scared already and burning up what little cash they have to try to keep Bush from defining himself before they get a chance......

[Pharmer]

Kerry

Bring it on!!!

Bush

Um...OK!!Kerry

Wahhh!! No Fair!! I only have my OWN medals to throw at you and if I do that what will I have to show my for my valor in Vietnam?? All four months of them? I'm a patriot God-damn-it! I killed more Vietnamese than you you could could ever imagine! I even told that to Congress!! So there!!! Bring it on!!!

Bush

Um Ok!!

[Grampa Dave]

F'Kerry and his Lunatic Rats want us to forget this ever happened:

9/11 will not be forgotten anymore than the first shots of our Revolutionary War, the Alamo or Pearl Harbor.

[rikkir]

One of the big things I want to hear coming from the Bush Cheney camp is the statement by Kerry that GW Bush has "exaggerated" the terrorist threat, while showing the pictures of the planes, buildings collapsing, etc.

[DeBug=int13]

 

 

And who is this survivors group "9-11 families for a Peaceful Tomorrow"?

 

Aww - phooey on them -

 

The real name of the outfit is September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

 

And from all appearances it is a fund-raising front for the Tides Center (EIN 94-3213100) of San Francisco - and "Peaceful Tomorrows" doesn't try to hide that they are affiliated on their contribute page. I know some Freepers are familiar with the Tides Center, and for those who are not, it is a non-profit organization that rakes in fairly big bucks ($63+ mill in FY 2002, which included $5+ mill in Government grants) to distribute out grants and allocations to various and sundry "social" projects and causes, with left-wing groups getting decent cuts of the action - they consistently lay out a good bit of change to anti-second amendment groups, for instance. September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows doesn't appear to be necessarily autonomous from the Tides Center. Interestingly, the P.O. box listed on the "Peaceful Tomorrows" site shares the same location address and zip in the neighborhood with such notable organizations as The New Formulation: an Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books (a biannual journal examining the value of recent publications to the development of contemporary anarchist theory and politics), Institute for Anarchist Studies, Radical Magick (an "Eclectic Ceremonial Based Magick Group"), South Asian AIDS Action, Lesbian and Gay Labor Network, Dyke Action Machine! or DAM! - not that there's anything wrong with that (in Jerry Seinfeld voice). The Fellowship of Reconciliation website that is also mentioned on "Peaceful Tomorrows" contribute page says it all - offices in Wash. DC and also San Francisco.

 

Though they may splash New York this and New York that all around, "Peaceful Tomorrows" is created and based in Oakland California, founded and directed by Barry Amundson and sister-in-law Kelly Campbell, with the web technical matters being handled by Steve Simitzis of Saturn5 Productions in San Francisco, which has an apparent mission statement of providing web consulting and "hosting for artists, online communities, activist organizations"

 

Amundson is Designer and IT manager for the San Francisco branch of Fenton Communications, a "public interest communications" company that has offices in Washington DC, New York NY and San Francisco.

 

They have a rather interesting list of clientele that include -

 

MoveOn.org
People For the American Way
Nelson Mandela - Presidential Election
Greenpeace
Ben and Jerry's

Rock the Vote (which is also a "top five" paid contractor for the Tides Center)

 

Can probe here for the whole listing.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a bit from lengthy LA Times article about what they do and the crowd they hang with - I think the Moderators won't have a cow over this excerpt -

 

October 1, 2002
Operation: Peace
Antiwar movement reflects a different America than in past eras, but diverse allies keep the spirit alive.
By REED JOHNSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER

 

"We want to poison your mind," teases the woman with slate-colored hair outside First Baptist Church in Koreatown. Swathed in natural fibers and sporting an anti-Dubya button, she's minding a table piled high with books, pamphlets and stickers decrying the sorry state of the planet--wars, corporate malfeasance, environmental disasters-in-the-making, and so on--along with half a dozen copies of the revolutionary rabble-rousings of Chairman Mao.

 

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But the rally's emotional climax occurred when Kelly Campbell and Barry Amundson, members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a group composed of relatives of 9/11 victims, embraced beneath a giant video screen where images of the burning twin towers had flashed by moments earlier. Barry Amundson, 32, is the brother of Craig Amundson, a 28-year-old Army multimedia specialist who was killed when the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon; Campbell is his sister-in-law. Both were in Los Angeles to voice their conviction that the response to last year's attacks on New York and Washington shouldn't be more mangled bodies and grieving relatives.

 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

 

 

 

 

And over at Indymedia -

 

9/10 Event in L.A. Features Peaceful Tomorrows
The Nation | 08.09.2002 20:19

 

"starring" Tom Hayden, Robert Scheer, Alfre Woodard, Ramona Ripston, Medea Benjamin, Maria Elena Durazo, Rev. George Regas and Rabbi Allen Freehling.

 

(Interesting links on that page)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Socialist birds of a feather flocking together........

 

 

 

[Pharmer]

Bump

[1Old Pro]

Related post: Pat Schroeder on Hannity & Colmes- Says Bush wrong to use Freedom, Religion, etc in commercial

[Iconoclast2]

Reminds me of the old adage "if you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelped is the one you hit".

[goldstategop]

Yep. The Democrats are squealing like stuck pigs. The last thing they want in this campaign is to have the American people be reminded we are in fact still at war and that they have no ideas, in fact no policy, for how to deal with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The Left is running scared. If they don't like this commercial, wait til they see what's coming. This was just a softball move.

[fightu4it]

Maybe the republicans should start running ads depicting the lack of any effective response by the former democrat president when our embassies were being bombed and our naval ships were being bombed and Saddam was thumbing his nose at the United States.

They could show pictures of all the bombing and posturing by Saddam and the last shot could be of a pair of mens' legs with his pants around his ankles.

[rwfromkansas]

The people protesting the use of the images have used them themselves.....a peace sign made out of the two towers.

[Constitutional Patriot]

A simple response to all the spew we will invariably hear from the left (DNC) during the next few months is:

BUSH IS A LEADER AND KERRY IS NOT.

I believe this sums it up. Feel free to make as many bumper stickers as necessary.