The Ad That Beats Bush

[Nicholas_J]

How Kerry could craft a Bin Laden commercial that makes him president
The Ad That Beats Bush
by Wayne Barrett
September 14th, 2004 10:05 AM


Osama: If Kerry can pin bin Laden on Bush in his upcoming ads, he will finally connect with the fear that is driving this election.



The Ad That Beats Bush How Kerry could craft a Bin Laden commercial that makes him president


The ad starts with Bush and his September 14, 2001, bullhorn. This time, though, it's a Kerry commercial that reminds swing-state Americans of Bush's blood vow—precisely three years ago—that "the people who knocked down these buildings" would "hear all of us soon." The cowboy soundbites that we would "smoke 'em out" track across the screen with any network's footage of the "wanted dead or alive" culprits: Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar.

Then the camera moves on to anchors reporting that bin Laden was cornered at Tora Bora, picked up on cell-phone intercepts commanding the surrounded 2,000 Al Qaeda troops, but that U.S. commanders were allowing mercenary Pashtuns to lead the fighting and Pakistanis to seal the backside border. Next, news headlines blare that Special Forces and key CIA operatives were prematurely pulled out of Afghanistan to prepare for the war on Iraq. The last visual is of Bush momentarily forced at a March 2002 press conference to discuss bin Laden: "I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with ya."

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[David Dunham]

1. Not a good approach if Bush pulls Bin Laden out at the last minute

If that happens, with this ad setting up the issue, Bush wins the election.

[xray s]

2. save it for halloween

sometimes you just have to roll the dice

[trogdor]

14. agreed.

Besides, you can frame it such that Bush should have had his ass already - long ago. You can ask stuff like...


"What's the holdup on bin Laden?"

"Three years since 9/11 and Osama is still at large. What's up with that?"

"Pol Pot died of old age. I guess Osama will too, right?"

[TexasSissy]

3. That was my first thought, too. Otherwise, a good ad.

[EST]

5. Won't be necessary.

Some mop-up remains, but this thing is in the bag.

[Nicholas_J]

6. Bush keeps trying

To divert the campaign away from deomstic issues, (the GPO did a study of what Bush's proposed agenda will cost the government and it turns out that Bush's plans will cost the American Taxpayer ONE TRILLION DOLLARS more than Kerry's Agenda. Bush Keeps arguing that Kerry's plans willcost 2 Trillion Dollars but leaves out the estimates that his will cost three trillion and in his case, it is big business that gets the money, not the average citizen).

He keeps trying to bring the issue to HIM being more capable of protecting America from terrorism, by EQUATING terrorism with Iraq. Kerry speaks as if the two are unrelated, but does not do so strongly enough, Kerry has to turn the ONE thing that Bush has convinced the American public is his strength into a weakness by reminding the American people over and ovber again, in a very sinple message, trhat Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were the ONLY people responsible for any terror attacks on the United States and that at the moment that the United States had itsbest chance to capture Osama and the Al Qaeda leadership, Bush dropped the efforts to pursu Osama, pulled the Delta Force troops out of Afghanistan, and sent them to the Gulf to plan for the attacks on Iraq.

All he would have to do is hammer at the fact that we had Osama trapped in a ten square mile area, and Bush pulled out and allowed the best chance to capture the killers of 9/11 to slip away. Rep[eat it and repeat it just like the swift boat vets repeat lies about Kerry. If it is repeated often enough, true or not, enough people will beleive it to put a serious dent in BUsh's polling. If Bush wants to use fear to get the American voters to vote for him, Kerry sould make the American public fear putting the person who has allowed the real terrorists responsible for 9/11 3 years to plan their future attacks.

[EST]

11. Yes, I do agree with you,

and we are going to have to keep a constant hammering going on right into the forseeable future. This, I think is the only way we can move this bunch of liars, and I'm afraid I must include politicos of all stripes here, more toward a basis of truth. Is this goal entirely too big? I dunno, and sometimes I completely despair of ever even coming close. Maybe what we ought to be working on is a huge computer system that runs all functions of government!
In the primary run, I watched Sen. Kerry take a statement made by Dean, and restate it-spin it (lie about it). I was offended (innocent lil' 'ol me), so offended, that I wrote John Kerry off until I finally had to admit that he was really the only one with the credentials to go up against the enmeshed machine and have a chance of winning.

Dennis K was the most honest contender for public office, followed by Howard Dean, that I've ever seen. JohnKerry is the only candidate for me, as he is strong, intelligent, cultured, professional, and principled. But we must, in the future, move toward honesty as a policy. Mendacity in any form, I think, is just too big an enemy to work in the coming civilization. (soapbox back under bed)

[One Taste]

13. do you have a link to that GPO study?

It would be awesome to see how my conservative friends/relatives react to that.

[celestia671]

4. I've suspected all along that he might do that...

Bin 4gotten hasn't been mentioned too much lately at all. However, in late October, he'll 'suddenly' be found in a 'cave' or 'spider hole' in Afghanistan somewhere.

What is really sad and scary is that the majority of the people will buy into the 'daring capture' and re-elect Bush and the other crooks!

[Odd Little Man]

7. I read somewhere

that Bush/Cheney haven't used OBL's name in 8 months. Don't know how true that is but it has been awhile.

[Nicholas_J]

12. Not Bloody likely

We have almost no forces in Afghanistan, certainly not enough to even begin to locate Bin Laden or any of his lieutenants at the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. Bush removed all of the Delta Force troops from the area, and have left behind very few regular troops. The Pakistanis recently denied the statements from the Bush Administration that they were close to catching Bin Laden by saying not only were they not close, but they had no idea where he could be. This is why Al Zawahiri die his tape a few days ago. Rub Bush's nose in it. The Pakisatanis are doing all of the work looking for bin Laden and they are not trying all that hard. When Bush gave them a nudge a few weeks ago, they captured a bunch of low level terrorists.
BIn Laden is not in Afghanistan, and there are NO U.S. troops at all in the Northwest Territory of Pakistan. This is Bin Laden Country and in that area he is the Marlboro Man. These are also some very poor people and not a one has been tempted by 25 million dollars to even give a whisper of where Al Qaeda might be holed up.

Its just not going to happen. Bush needs bin Laden free to keep the fear of terrorism alive and well.

[Chomskyite]

8. Bush can't do that

Otherwise bin Laden would have been mentioned by the Bushies multiple times at the convention and at photo ops.

[belle]

9. My thoughts exactly.

[dave123williams]

10. Not bad. Storyboard it, and I'll animate it.

I'll bet I could put something together in a week.

Wonder if we can get it distributed? Moveon?