After all these years, the Johnson daisy ad finally has a contemporary counterpart. To so blatantly play on people's fears when in fact it is the Republican administration and Congress that have made matters worse for the United States throughout the world is truly embarrassing and shameful.

If terrorism is truly a threat (and I am by no means convinced that it is) to the United States, the GOP has done more to make it so than the Democrats could do in a lifetime.

... when someone brags about their next action, they make it sound even bigger and better than the last one? What, like Bin Laden's gonna say, "Nope, that's it. We shot our bolt. Show's over." Of course they're going to try for something larger -- the logic of their organization demands it. Of course, since when have the GOP taken Bin Laden as their authority?

He's a PR flack making a PR prediction. He's not a neutral expert.

I think the GOP is overplaying its hand. My natural reaction is, "You've had five years to make us safer, but now you're saying the next one is going to be worse. Sounds like it's time for someone new at the helm."

Though to be fair, they don't say "Vote Republican". Just "vote". And I intend to -- for as long as I still have thr right, before 43 "signing statements" that away too...

Is it bad form to point out that all of these actions and statements were made while the GOP controlled Congress?

It would?

That's a pity. Because I just want to point out that all of these actions and statements were made while the GOP controlled Congress.

..I couldn't watch the video, some kind of problem on my end.

But I really don't have to, I have a pretty good idea what's in it. More cheap fear-mongering. Makes the democratic party's girl-playground-bomb ad against Goldwater look tame, no doubt.

I have a question though: do all these right-wing bloggers, pundits and politicians really think the other half of the country is nothing but weak quislings who will roll over to our enemies and make us a vassal state of one of the 'Stans? Really? Do they really think we want to betray the country? That we're so stupid that we'd screw things up as badly as THEY have for the last 6 years? Really?

Because, the last time a democrat was president, and congress was still somewhat functional, the US image in the world was pretty good, and so was the domestic situation. What is it about these right-wing nut-cases that they think all of us over here on the other side are a bunch of weaklings and traitors?

From where I sit, their own guys have made us weaker, ruined our standing in the world, plunged us deep in debt, provoked a possible nuclear arms race in Asia because of a totally irresponsible approach to North Korea, allowed Osama bin Laden to roam free because of the need to placate the Pakistanis (or the need to have a boogey-man out there for success in elections..look what Bin Laden did for Bush before the 2004 election).

Or do they know we're not traitors at all...rather, just people who would remove THEM from their power, or proximity to it? I suspect it's that. The pundits and bloggers just don't want to be consigned to the pit of "who cares".

In other words, they're lying hypocrites. Nothing new there I guess.

Still, this entire business of demonizing your opposition does make me wonder exactly what they believe. I expect they just want their power, and their views validated. And we're convenient targets. People who can't admit they're stupid and wrong need someone to blame. We're it.

After 5 years of granting the admin/repubs carte blanche to do anything they wanted to stop the evildoers(including the recent suspension of habeas corpus), why are the terrorists still such a deadly threat?

Wouldn't a logical person therefore conclude that if the current crew stays in power, they will contintue to FAIL to solve this problem -- especially when their mantra is 'stay the course'?

Sounds like a great argument to vote Democratic, in my opinion.

Al-Qaeda's unstoppable kung fu fighters will KILL YOUR CHILDREN!

3 letters and an exclamation point. The entire substance of the GOP campaign.

defeat terrorism - don't live in fear.

Mark my words. There is a huge segnment of the population that will fall for this everytime. They're like the citizens of Emerald City running in panic to the idiotic Wizard when the Wicked Witch flies over.

The Democrats miscalculated yet again. They should have immediately tied all of the Republican scandals and failures up with a big guady bow that said this is all making us much, much less safe. Now they will be once again put into a defensive position. You think they would have learned.

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Too damned bad we didn't capture Osama when we had the chance, eh?

Too damned bad we got involved in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, eh?

Too damned bad that the party in power is busy looting the treasury and protecting pedophiles rather than taking care of business, eh?

The stakes? The Constitution. Our freedom. Our democracy.

The enemy? The GOP.

Wow. I watched this ad with no sound, so that could have something to do with my perception of it, but I found it very hard to take seriously. I kept thinking it was a parody of a Republican attack ad. Amazing the depth we'll sink to for power.

...America was the Home of the Brave?

I do. We wouldn't worry about the Bogie Man. We'd live each day with courage, our heads held high and our balls clanking like grapefruit-sized ball bearings. If something bad happened, we took it like men, dusted ourselves off, and got right back to the business of things.

Not the Repugs, though. Because most of them are cowardly Chickenhawks who never served, they expect the rest of us to be Chickenhawks.

To hell with them I say.

Let's put the Democrats back in power.

Heck, more Democrats served in the Armed Forces than the Repugs anyway.