AA ban = 9/11, Katrina

[DesertFox]

Opponents of a ballot proposal that would ban some affirmative action programs in Michigan are running a statewide radio ad that warns the measure is as dangerous as the Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters.

"If you could have prevented 9/11 from ever happening, would you have?" an announcer asks in the ad. "If you could have prevented Katrina from ever happening, what would you have done? On November 7th, there's a national disaster headed for Michigan: the elimination of affirmative action."

More (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Affirmative_Action_Ballot_Ad.html)

[DeclinetoState]

I'm not sure what the connection is between affirmative action and disaster preparedness, but the ad makes for great propaganda, though it could easily backfire on AA supporters.

[LightHorseman]

Katrina equals ending affirmative action like waterfalls equal cheese sandwhiches

[DoctorDoom]

Such ads are not for people who think. They target the ignorant, the clueless, the feeling, and the liberal. But then, the libeRATs are infamous for this sort of offensive, scare-mongering hyperbole.

1998 Missouri Political radio ad for Democrats, aimed at blacks:

When you don't vote, you let another church explode.
When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn.
When you don't vote, you let another assault wound a brother or sister.
When you don't vote, you let Republicans continue to cut school lunches and Head Start.
Paid for by the Missouri Democratic Party.

For the 2000 election, Democrats put out ads that showed a man being dragged to death behind a truck while saying Bush was against severe penalties for "hate crimes." This ad ran while the men responsible for that very crime were on death row. Is there a more severe penalty than death for such a crime? Are not most murders "hate crimes?" Then the liberals have the gall to accuse Bush of executing more people than any other governor — which was another false statement.The death of the Democratic Party (http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/stock/041028)

Democrat/liberal bullshit ala Hillary's warnings -- various speakers, since June 1995:

"Why do the Republicans want to take apples and milk away from six-year-olds... Starving children is not the solution to balancing our budget... The Republicans are taking food out of the mouths of needy and middle-class children... It's cruel to kids... It's really a contract against children... Stop declaring war on our kids... War on their children. War on their children... We're going to let the kids go hungry again... And our children are being left the crumbs of the Gingrich revolution."

"This legislation is mean... I'd also like to speak to (sic) a moment about the mean-spiritedness I'm hearing about out of the floor today... But how can they be so mean-spirited... These cuts are mean-spirited... The mean-spirited Republicans... It is mean-spirited. It is vicious... The contract is too extreme, too mean-spirited... The draconian, mean-spirited and immoral cuts in funding... We're seeing draconian cuts in all sorts of social-service programs... Once again, they're playing Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor to give to the rich."

What sort of a glittering jewel of consummate assholeism believes that a political party seeks to maintain power by doing that sort of thing? Democrats are desperate, and they are liars! Continuing ...

"The Gingrich/Dole Congress has been the most anti-labor Congress and anti-working-people Congress in the history of the United States of America, and it's time to turn them OUT!"
-- Tree-hugger Gore, the most ignorant son of a bitch that ever held the VP office.

"This has been without a doubt the worst environmental Congress in the history of our country. Americans today, had they had their way, would be drinking dirtier water, breathing dirtier air, and facing public health risks they should not have to face."
-- Sen. Tom Daschle, which says little for the intelligence of the voters in his state.

"Yesterday, October 11, 1995 is a day of infamy, as senior citizens were taken prisoner of war in the Republican's assault on America."

"GOP - Get Old People"

"We view yesterday's action, taken by the Republican conference, as an assault on diversity in the Congress and an attempt to disempower communities through congressional ethnic and philosophical cleansing."
-- Kwese Nfume, re Republicans cutting funding for Congressional Black Caucus

"What's next? Castration? Sterilization?"

"They're coming for our children. They're coming for the poor. They're coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled."
-- Rep. John Lewis, GA

"He can raise enough money from the extreme right wing, the extra-chromosome right wing (a shot at Down's Syndrome victims), to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth."
-- Compassionate Algore

"The reason they're trying to slow the rate of increase in the program, I suppose, is that eventually they'd like to see the program just die and go away. You know, that's probably what they'd like to see happen to some seniors, too, if you think about it." Compassionate Mike McCurry.

"If this bill ever became law, our drinking water would be dirtier, would make more people sick, and would kill more people."
-- Tree-hugger Gore

"What's being done to our society, the torture and the maiming of our society, is incomprehensible."
-- Major Owens

"You're a bunch of dictators, that's all you are... I had to fight you guys fifty years ago."
-- Sam Gibbons (Republicans are Nazis!)

The RATs have nothing new. They just recycle the same lies and scare tactics election after election. We cannot afford to put those treasonous bastards back in the driver's seat.

[DeclinetoState]

Don't forget Lyndon Johnson's attack ad on Barry Goldwater showing a little girl picking the petals off a flower as she watches a nuclear explosion.

[DeclinetoState]

Ted Kennedy was in favor of abolishing AA till he got sober and realized they weren't talking about Alcoholics Anonymous.

[DesertFox]

:roar: Ted Kennedy was in favor of abolishing AA till he got sober and realized they weren't talking about Alcoholics Anonymous.