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Pig_Latin_Lover Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-04 02:40 PM
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Who will win the 9/11 victim commercial vote?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=18&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_ads

"I want to look in my daughter's eyes and know that she is safe, and that is why I am voting for John Kerry," Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband was killed in the attacks, says in an ad by the Democrat's campaign.
- From the Kerry ad.

In another commercial by a Republican interest group, Ohio teenager Ashley Faulkner recalls being comforted by Bush after her mother died in the attacks. The president is shown embracing her. "He's the most powerful man in the world, and all he wants to do is make sure I'm safe, that I'm OK," the girl says.
- From the Bush ad.

Notice the different approach in the two ads. The Bush one plays up how mighty and powerful Bush is, and how HE wants to keep the woman safe. The Kerry one plays it up as a woman concerned with keeping her daughter safe, and she doesn't say that Kerry will keep her daughter safe.

I think the Kerry ad takes a more intelligent approach and shows selflessness while the Bush ad tries to portray Bush as "Big Brother."
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