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by Guy Reel
For each ad, imagine a voice-over narration. You may supply the visuals:
Ad #1
President Bush loves to point fingers at those he claims will "flip-flop" on issues. Yet George Bush has flip-flopped on an issue crucial to America's future - the war against terrorism.
At first George Bush opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
Then when he realized the commission was popular after the 9/11 attacks, he supported it.
Then Bush attacked Democrats, who had proposed the Department to begin with. Bush's party then ran ads implying that one of those Democrats, a senator who lost limbs in fighting for America in Vietnam, was linked to Osama bin Laden.
At first Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 commission.
Then when it became apparent that the victims of the attack wanted the commission, he supported it.
Then Bush tried to stop the commission before it could complete its work.
Then Bush caved in under pressure, and agreed to allow it to continue its work.
At first Bush resisted testifying before the commission.
Then he agreed to testify - as long as Vice President Cheney was at his side.
At first Bush opposed allowing his national security director to testify publicly under oath before the commission.
Then when people, including Republicans, insisted, he caved in and allowed her to testify.
Why is Bush such a flip-flopper on issues of national security and 9/11? Attacking a country doesn't mean you're decisive on terrorism - it can just mean you don't know what you're doing.
Let's get rid of George Bush.
Ad #2
If you were president, what would you do after the country was attacked by murderous thugs? Hunt them down and kill them?
Here's what George Bush did: In wartime he cut taxes for millionaires, cut funding for veterans, stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier and claimed operations were over while our young men and women were still being killed, and then he hired actors to pose as 9/11 firefighters for his re-election campaign commercials. He also gave a plastic turkey to our troops in Iraq.
Now we have a 7 trillion dollar debt, our soldiers and workers are still being killed, and we attacked a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorism.
And by the way, the government now can monitor what books you check out of the library.
No more plastic turkeys: Let's get rid of George Bush.
Ad #3
George Bush claims he's a conservative. But his reckless budgeting turned a national surplus into debt that amounts to more than $7 trillion. His annual deficits are now at half a trillion dollars. His tax cuts have given $45,000 checks to multi-millionaires - and the funny thing is, many of them say they don't even want the money.
Bush's own people say his administration lied about the money it would cost for its Medicare bill. It hid more than $100 billion in costs from even the members of its own party.
Bush wanted the bill because it would help his re-election - but much of that money goes to drug and health companies, not to the people who need help from Medicare.
That didn't matter to Bush and his people. To tout the Medicare bill, they hired actors to create commercials that looked like news reports. Some TV news stations aired the bogus news reports, thinking they were legitimate. Then they found out the news reports were just advertisements for Bush's Medicare bill.
Let's get rid of George Bush.
Ad #4
George Bush's supposed conservative policies include spending the nation into trillions in debt and rolling back protections for the environment and our national parks.
Bush turned on of our country's greatest strengths - its incredible wealth - into a weakness. Because of his spending, all of our children face debt for the rest of their lives, and for the rest of their children's lives.
Bush claims John Kerry wants to raise everyone's taxes to solve the problem, but even that isn't true. Kerry wants to create jobs to help the nation solve that problem. He has also asked the multi-millionaires to pay more because they have benefited the most from Bush's reckless spending and budgeting polices. These policies threaten Social Security, Medicare and even our national defense.
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