Bush using Olympics in new ad

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http://www.freep.com/sports/2004olympics/olyline14e_20040814.htm

WASHINGTON -- The Olympics aren't supposed to be political, but ... President Bush's campaign unveiled a new television ad Friday touting "two more free nations" and "two fewer terrorists regimes" that it plans to run on cable channels during the Games and other sports programming

It also will air on a TV network of 250 fitness centers in several swing states, all part of a $28-million ad blitz this month.

The commercial notes the world had 40 democracies in 1972, compared with 120 today.

As a swimmer dives into her race lane, a voice says: "Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. ... With strength, resolve and courage, democracy will triumph over terror. And hope will defeat hatred."

[swag]

1. Never mind, we can still use Velveeta in our ads!

[Toots]

2. Did Iraq send anyone to the Olympics in 2000?

How about Afghanistan? :shrug:

[quaoar]

6. Iraq's soccer team

upset Portgual the other day.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Is Bush using the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

That's the one best suited for his style of governing.

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4. He's Going to Florida. That will show up in an ad.

[Placebo]

5. "This Year 2 nations will be going to the games, Iraq and Afghanistan..."

Yea sure. I've seen the ad, it's a disgusting mix of bush and the olympics, isn't it like against the law for them to bastardize the olympic trademark???