Can you smell the desperation?
10/29/2004
In final hours, Bush mailings display images of burning World Trade Center
By John Byrne, RAW STORY Editor
In a last ditch bid to win Pennsylvania's electoral votes, where Democratic Sen. John Kerry is leading is most polls, President George W. Bush has engaged in mailings which contain myriad graphic images of the burning World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
Link & more below the fold.
The ad is three-fold. RAW STORY has acquired scans of two and a half pages.
On the front side, the ad asks in red print, "How Can John Kerry Lead America In A Time of War?" It adds three subsequent lines, "Kerry: Changing Positions," "Kerry: Cutting Defense" and "Kerry: Slashing Intelligence."
Following that, there are nine images of the front pages of Sept. 12, 2001 newspapers (shown below), all of which display the smoking towers of the World Trade Center before they collapsed, killing some 2,600 people. One includes the approach of the plane.
The RAW STORY has pictures here .
Bush & Co. have been shamelessly exploiting 9/11 for over two years (think Bush's ad with the image of the fallen firefighter, the 2002 midterm elections, the entire Republican National Convention, etc.) but this is definitely a new low. It's past time someone called them on this crap.
Let's work this into a "Bush is desperate/Kerry has the Big Mo'" meme. Here's hoping even the SCLM can understand the irony in Bush accusing Kerry of saying or doing anything to get elected while he himself uses graphic images of 9/11 in his ads. Or is that, sadly, expecting too much?