Democrats Start Anti-Bush Ad Campaign (aka; how pathetic can they be?!)

Yahoo! ^ | WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer

[God luvs America]

CRAWFORD, Texas - Democrats are launching a television ad that accuses President Bush (news - web sites) of misleading Americans on the nuclear threat from Iraq (news - web sites).

Republicans urged broadcasters not to carry the ad, set to be aired initially Monday in Madison, Wis., then elsewhere; they called it "deliberately false and misleading."

The Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) has been raising money through an e-mail campaign that began July 10 to help finance the ad, which sharply questions Bush's veracity on Iraq's weapons.

The ad says: "In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush told us of an imminent threat. ... America took him at his word."

The video shows Bush saying, "Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

The ad continues: "But now we find out it wasn't true.

"A year earlier, that claim was proven false. The CIA (news - web sites) knew it. The State Department knew it. The White House knew it.

"But he told us anyway."

Republicans claim the ad improperly quotes Bush because his entire statement was: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

DNC spokesman Tony Welch said: "With the British in there, the president's information is still false and misleading. It is exactly what the president said."

Some Republicans have argued Bush's statement was technically accurate because it attributed the findings about uranium to the British

[jagrmeister]

The simple response is 30-second television spots to counter this. It's important to counter the charges, portray Bush as a trustworthy leader, and Democrats as anti-war malcontents who never supported the war and are now polishing Saddam's image. We'll see if the RNC is smart enough to actually use its financial advantage to counter the generally shrewder DNC.

[God luvs America]

I agree, but let the democRATS run the ad for a while.

[Jorge]

How typical of the Rats to run a chopped-up out of context quote in order to deceive people about what Bush was really saying.

And on top of that to make a completely false claim about Bush's warning it was an "imminent threat"...when in fact Bush said it was not an imminent threat....yet.

If the Republicans don't run a counter-ad, or find some way to expose the deceit and dishonesty of the Dems in this attack on Bush, then they will be partially to blame if people believe these lies.

[lorrainer]

...hopefully Americans will see this for nothing more than what it really is; another sleazy democRAT tactic and a distortion of the facts.

Well, they're starting out in the right market, anyway. People in Madison will eat this garbage up with a spoon. The video was sent in an email to the Dim masses directly (along, it is assumed, with a package of Kool-Aid via snail-mail). The RNC has contacted four local Madison TV stations who said they'd run it anyway, even if it's been edited for DNC's purposes.