Kerry Ads Draw On Saudis For Attack On Bushes

[KittyWampus]

Bye Bye, Bandar Bush...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/politics/campaign/05a...

In the final month of the campaign, Democrats are increasingly tying the White House to the Saudi Arabian
royal family, a line of attack that they say is highly effective, but it has stirred concern among Saudi officials.

Senator John Kerry and the Democratic Party introduced two new advertisements this weekend that criticize
President Bush's administration as giving the family "special favors" and as having an overreliance on Saudi
Arabia for oil.

And the Media Fund, a Democratic group, said yesterday that it would spend $6.5 million to run
advertisements hitting the Saudi theme still harder in Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin during the next couple of
weeks.

....
Mr. Kerry's new advertisements imply that ties between the president and the Saudis have caused Mr. Bush
to take a slack line against the Saudis on oil prices - a message Kerry aides say they hope will resonate
particularly well in the days before Mr. Kerry's Friday debate on domestic issues with Mr. Bush.
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[Cybergata]

1. It's about time! N/T

:hippie:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. But Kerry needs to make it clear it isn't the Saudi people

but the incestuous business relationships between the Saudi's and the Bush family that make this parade of horribles what it is including the Saudi Royal family's funding of extremist groups in exchange for continuing their corrupt practices... otherwise they will claim it is race baiting.

[yardwork]

4. The Saudi royal family will claim it anyway

The Saudi people have no voice in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. That's why Osama bin Laden did what he did. That's why al Qaida exists.

The Saudi royal family is an absolute monarchy that controls all the wealth and freedom in that country, while their people go hungry, oppressed, and uneducated. Americans - notably the Bush family - have helped the Saudis do this.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. need to know any more than this?

oil: $30/barrel when it stole the election

you know what it is today

and they're HOLDING back price til November 3, you can be sure

til just a week ago, prices at the pump have gone DOWN since June, when the barrel price started taking off again

somebody here posted a chart showing the inverse relation, which has NEVER occurred before

you know what happens when there's even a breath of hint of an oil increase: an immediate increase at the pump

how else to explain the magical inverse relation between crude prices and pump prices

if they'd followed the normal relations, by now the price would be in the mid two dollar range, averaged across the country; and that's a CONSERVATIVE estimate

[Child_Of_Isis]

5. The audience loves this.

Anytime that I have seen him speak, and he mentions either Haliburton or the Saud's, the crowd cheers like hell. Myself, I admit to liking it also :headbang:

[pacalo]

6. I sure hope Edwards finds every opportunity to mention Halliburton...

because Cheney doesn't like it. Just ask Sen. Patrick Leahy. ;)