Bush Afraid of Big Bad Wolves wrote:
> Bush TV Ad Uses Wolves to Attack Kerry
> President Bush Ad Uses Images of Wolves to Imply Terrorists Would Seize
on
> John Kerry Presidency
AWOL Bush -- The Boy Who Cried Wolf!
>
> Video image from a campaign ad for President Bush released Friday, Oct.
22,
> 2004. President Bush's campaign, using powerful imagery of prowling
wolves,
> suggests the country under John Kerry would be vulnerable to terrorists
in the
> new television ad that says "weakness attracts those who are waiting to
do
> America harm." (AP Photo/Bush-Cheney 2004) The Associated PressThe
Associated
> Press
>
> WA****NGTON Oct 22, 2004 — President Bush's campaign suggests the country
> would be vulnerable to terrorists under a John Kerry presidency in a TV
ad
> that shows prowling wolves in a forest and says "weakness attracts those
who
> are waiting to do America harm."
>
> Countering, the Democratic Party released a commercial that features a
soaring
> eagle and an ostrich with its head in the sand. The ad asks: "Given the
> choice, in these challenging times, shouldn't we be the eagle again?"
>
> Kerry running mate John Edwards, in Boynton Beach, Fla., said Bush had
> "stooped so low" that he was "continuing to try to scare America in his
> speeches and ads in a despicable and contemptible way."
>
> Reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's Soviet "Bear" ad that was credited with
helping
> frame the 1984 race, Bush's commercial shows a dense forest from above
and
> then sunlight-speckled trees from inside. Shadows move through the brush
> before animals are seen in the forest. Wolves rest on a hill, then stir
and
> move forward. Top Stories
>
> * Bush Declares Kerry Can't Keep U.S. Safe
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>
> "In an increasingly dangerous world, even after the first terrorist
attack on
> America, John Kerry and the liberals in Congress voted to slash
America's
> intelligence budget by $6 billion," an ominous voice says in the ad.
"Cuts so
> deep they would have weakened America's defenses. And weakness attracts
those
> who are waiting to do America harm."
>
> It implies that terrorists would take advantage of a Kerry presidency
and the
> country could face another attack, which Bush and Vice President Dick
Cheney
> have suggested on the campaign trail. The vice president said last month
the
> country was likely to be "hit again" if voters made the "wrong choice"
in
> November.
>
> The ad also seeks to make the case that Bush's opponent doesn't
understand the
> threat terrorists pose to the United States and it attempts to undermine
> Kerry's credibility by ****traying him as someone who shouldn't be
trusted with
> keeping the country safe.
>
> "It's certainly playing to fear," said Darrell West, a Brown University
> political scientist who studies campaign advertising. "It builds
logically on
> other things they've been saying for months."
>
> The ad, Bush aides say, was created in the spring and was found to be
highly
> effective in focus groups, particularly among women and undecided
voters.
>
> Voters in 14 states will see the ad, which also will run on national
cable,
> starting Friday. Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee
are
> spending roughly $15 million on TV commercials this week, and GOP
officials
> say that sum is likely to be higher next week, the last one before Nov.
2.
>
> The Democratic National Committee, too, has had its ad prepared for
months.
> Operating separately from Kerry's campaign, the party's independent
> expenditure office is spending $20 million combined this week and next
on ads.
> Officials say the new ad will run at heavy levels starting early next
week on
> national cable networks and in battleground states in rotation with
other
> spots.
>
> The ad, with classical music playing, says: "The eagle soars high above
the
> Earth. The ostrich buries its head in the sand. The eagle can see
everything
> for miles around. The ostrich? Can't see at all. The eagle knows when
it's
> time to change course. The ostrich stands in one place."
>
> The eagle is meant to symbolize Kerry, the ostrich, Bush.
>
> Polls show the two in a tight race, and both campaigns are focusing on
> national security to try to gain ground. Bush is trying to persuade
voters to
> stay the course in wartime, arguing change would put the country at
risk.
> Kerry is seeking to make the case for change by claiming Bush has failed
in
> the war on terror and in Iraq.
>
> Bush's ad says Kerry proposed $6 billion in cuts to the intelligence
budget
> after the first World Trade Center attack in 1993. Like other Senate
> Republicans and Democrats, Kerry sought reductions in intelligence
spending
> after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. He
> sponsored an amendment in 1994 as part of a plan aimed at reducing huge
> federal deficits.
>
> The GOP ad is modeled after one that was widely credited with framing
Reagan's
> 1984 re-election race and helping the in***bent Republican bury
Democratic
> challenger Walter Mondale.
>
> Although that 30-second ad never mentioned Mondale, Communism or the
Cold War,
> it used a menacing grizzly bear shuffling through a forest to represent
the
> Soviet Union and asked: "Is it smart to be as strong as the bear if
there is a
> bear?"
>
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