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Stockholm
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posted 31 October 2006 07:38 AM      Profile for Stockholm     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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_061030/20061030/


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josh
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posted 03 November 2006 09:13 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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This spot is, however, entirely characteristic of the mud that Republicans are raining on their Democratic opponents in the closing days of the campaign. Buggery is probably the top theme. In California, Republican incumbent John Doolittle has similarly accused his challenger, the unfortunately named Charlie Brown, of being pro-NAMBLA because he's an ACLU member. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican candidate for governor in Ohio, charges that his opponent opposed a resolution condemning sex between adults and children. Sonny Perdue, the Republican governor of Georgia, accuses his opponent of putting "the interests of the radical homosexual lobby ahead of our Boy Scouts."

The other big attack topics this cycle are Democrats and nonpedophilic sex, Democrats and drugs, Democrats and Osama, flag-burning, and illegal immigrants.


http://www.slate.com/id/2152671/nav/tap1/


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Pepper-Pot
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posted 03 November 2006 04:22 PM      Profile for Pepper-Pot        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
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.


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Pepper-Pot
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posted 03 November 2006 04:26 PM      Profile for Pepper-Pot        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What's even more disturbing, are the electronic voting issues.

It's Diebold vs. Smartmatic down the stretch...


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