Shrub and wolf image abuse

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These assholes will stop at nothing...except an election defeat that is coming!!

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Editorial: Can Bush protect us?

An editorial
October 24, 2004
President Bush's clumsy use of symbolism is legendary - think of the "Mission Accomplished" macho flyboy scene - but his re-election campaign has outdone itself with a new ad featuring wolves that would be laughable but for the truth it unwittingly reveals.

In a case of ironic timing by the obviously clueless campaign, the ad was released during Wolf Awareness Week, a nationwide annual event that originated in Wisconsin. Wolf Awareness Week is devoted to dispelling "Little Red Riding Hood" myths about timber wolves and stressing the animals' value to America's wildlife community. So it's nothing short of absurd that the president is airing an attack ad against John Kerry that uses wolves to symbolize the menace of terrorists.

We hardly need to point out the fallacy of implying that wolves are a threat to humans, but the Bush campaign ad's predator/prey imagery reveals a much greater irony than the president's lack of knowledge about wolf ecology.

The ad depicts the United States as weak and vulnerable and continues Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's desperate and tiresome tactic of trying to scare voters into supporting them by using dark projections about how a Kerry presidency would threaten U.S. security.

Yet, if this country does resemble trembling, helpless prey, it's Bush's own actions - his inept homeland security measures and unwarranted Iraq war - that have put us in such a state of vulnerability.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=14586

[Maeve]

1. Check out this site--the wolves speak up!

http://www.wolfpacksfortruth.org/

[SHRED]

2. sweet :)

[meow2u3]

3. Only sheep are afraid of wolves

and only sheeple are afraid of another terrorist attack thousands of miles away from their home.

[Politicub]

4. The Wolf ad is one of the silliest I've seen

It actually makes me giggle at the stupidity of spending the money to put it on the air.