11/13/2007

You Have to See It to Believe It.

Posted by Andrew |

Below is a recent campaign video created by Colorado's finest, Tom Tancredo. I was hoping our presidential campaigning had moved beyond the politics of fear. Apparently not. I can't think of any constructive and uplifting words to describe this video, so I'll let you think of your own.



It is about as productive and beneficial to political discussion as President Lyndon Johnson's famous mushroom cloud seen below:

1 comments:

Bruce Kratky said...

I remember the Johnson ad when it ran and the controversy afterwards. It was a cheap shot. Interestingly, it was Johnson who ramped up the war to the point that some 55,000 GI's were killed. Nixon was slow to get out, but Johnson got us in in a heartbeat. There is a difference between the two ads though. The idea that Goldwater would inevitably usher in atomic war and that Johnson was the only way not to die in a radio active cloud of dust and fire, was pure fantasy and politics of fear. It was a lie. The idea that a stealth Islamic radical would sneak into our country with the expressed intension of blowing up something, as was done in London and Spain, is real to the extreme. Boarder security, illegal aliens, Islamic radicals, back pack bombs, blowing up bystanders...this is real. I think this ad is hard hitting. I think it is based upon real threats to our security. It involves the discussion of sincere differences in how to handle boarder security issues and the high stakes that are involved if we, as a nation, get it wrong. Where am I wrong?

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