Info on the latest MoveOn PAC ad....devastating!

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Thu Oct-21-04 03:13 PM
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Info on the latest MoveOn PAC ad....devastating!

Well, I guess I can squeak out a few more $$....how about yall?

Dear MoveOn member,

With 12 days to go and a dead-heat race, it's time to pull out all the stops. Luckily, we've got a secret weapon -- a final television spot that tests better and sways more swing voters than almost any advertisement we've seen.

"He Just Doesn't Get It" was created by Win Back Respect and features their Band of Sisters, a courageous group of women whose family members served or died in Iraq and who are speaking out. It seizes on outrageous footage of President Bush joking about not being able to find the WMDs in Iraq, with a slide showing him looking under tables in the Oval Office. "My brother died in Baghdad on April 29th," Brooke Campbell says in the spot. "I watched President Bush make a joke, looking around for weapons of mass destruction. My brother died looking for weapons of mass destruction."

The ad is simple, powerful, and true, and it captures in 30 seconds what's wrong with George Bush's leadership. We need to get it on the air THIS WEEKEND -- we're aiming to air it for $1 million in the swing states where it can make the biggest difference. But we can't do that without your help. Can you help us raise $1 million today to put this ad in front of voters?

You can watch the ad and contribute securely online right now at:

http://www.moveonpac.org/donate/doesntgetit.html

In the final days before the election, President Bush and his allies are getting desperate. Dick Cheney is telling voters that electing Kerry could put major cities at risk of obliteration by a nuclear bomb. Sinclair Broadcasting Corp. tried to pre-empt prime-time programming to air a special on the allegations of the Swift Boat veterans. After claiming that 527s were illegal and "shadowy," the Bush camp has now embraced them, and a new 527 called Progress for America is running an emotionally manipulative ad featuring George Bush hugging a 9/11 family member.

You can give now at:

http://www.moveonpac.org/donate/doesntgetit.html

One of the reasons we think this ad is so effective is that the depiction of George Bush as smug and out of touch with reality rings true. And it's a theme that others are beginning to pick up on and amplify. On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore gave his "closing argument" in a passionate and powerful finale to his MoveOn speech series. The address focused on this same reality gap. Here's a short excerpt:

The President's aversion to doubt is sometimes interpreted as proof of the strength of his convictions. But in truth, it is nothing more than his refusal to even consider alternative opinions and conflicting evidence. The president ignores the warnings of his experts. He forbids any dissent. He is arrogantly out of touch with reality. He refuses to ever admit his mistakes. Which means that as long as he is our president, we are doomed to repeat them. It is beyond incompetence. It is recklessness that risks the safety and security of the American people.

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