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Originally posted by Stockholm:
Check out some of these monstrous negative ads from the upcoming US midterms.It really makes what passes for negative advertising in Canada seem like child's play!
I think "Vernon Robinson" should run for President!
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061030/political_ads_061030/2 0061030/
The argumentative tactics being used (to a *slightly* greater degree by the Republicans) are
strictly sensationalistic emotional triggers and implied (though not logically necessary) conclusions/presumptions.The sleazy voice re-playing the diabolical "call to an adult 1-900 number" scenario, for example.
But the Dems could do much better by planting themselves AT the center, or 1 notch left of center, and reporting the statistics on...
-Middle East Civilian Casualties
-Middle East American Deaths
-Secretive CIA Torture Prisons
-US Poverty Rates
-US Bankruptcy rates
-US Infant Mortality rates
-US Citizens without Medical Coverage / Without Financial means To Attend College/University
-US Drug War Insanity/Expenses
-US Incarceration Rate (nearly the highest in the world)
-US Violent Crime Rate
-Job Outsourcing
-National Debt
-Military expenditures : The Percentage Of Every American Tax Dollar Which Goes Towards Military Expenditure Is Outrageous
-Unrestrained Growth Of The Pharmaceutical Industry, And Statistics On Deaths/Injuries Caused By Toxic Synthetic Pharma-Poisons
-The Katrina Catastrophe : Bush & Co. Cut Hurricane Funding Well BEFORE Katrina Struck
-State-Church Fusion And Subsequent Demonization Of Peaceful Consenting Adults Caused By Entrenched Religiosity In Gov't Social Policy
-Withering Away Of Constitutional Civil Liberties, Privacy Rights, Rights To Council, Right To Be Free From Morality Squad Banishment/Persecution
***Why in the heck aren't the Democrats producing ads to document the INDEPENDANTLY VERIFIED damage caused by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co ? Either the Dems are conspiratorially complicit with them or they are incompetent.Maybe both.