The Stakes ARE High!
This site is cool.. it has the images & commercials from past elections... got linked here from a FactCheck.org email referencing the Republican National Committee's new ad...
"The Republican National Committee's latest ad - a 2006 version of President Johnson's famous 1964 "Daisy" commercial against Barry Goldwater - invokes the threat of a nuclear attack by al Qaeda..."
"...by using powerful visual images, the ad invites a conclusion for which the RNC offers no proof: Voting for Democrats risks nuclear incineration. That's an appeal to fear more than reason."
FactCheck.org's analysis concludes:
Implying what can't be proved
The RNC ad isn't as blunt as LBJ was when he said "We must love each other, or we must die," implying that his opponent Barry Goldwater might touch off a nuclear holocaust. But both ads refer to "the stakes" of the imminent election, inviting the conclusion that voting the wrong way carries a risk of death in a nuclear fireball.
And of course, they're right... the stakes ARE high. But they're not the ones that will make us safer. One of the old Johnson ads has a woman voicing over the image of a little girl eating an ice cream cone and talking about how Goldwater voted against the nuclear testing ban.
Now -- what I'm really worried about is the current president who actually "trashed the treaty on the campaign trail" and refused to sign a new treaty. Source: Time.com (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,93845,00.html)
- Bush opposes ratifying nuclear test ban treaty Saturday, October 16, 1999 By JOEL CONNELLY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
- Bush's Nuclear MadnessBy Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 2, 2006.
Isn't it a little ironic that this policy could be exactly why North Korea was brazen enough to do exactly what Bush supports for us?
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