..lets see how long it takes…

Posted by: Rob_NC at October 19, 2004 09:44 PM

I found this very interesting in that, contrary to most advertising at this point, is a decidedly positive, non-attack advertisement. I am curious to see how the Democrats are going to complain about the lack of negativity, especially considering that JK isn’t even obliquely referenced. Also, as people are always saying they don’t like negative campaigns it will be interesting to see if their response to this effort confirms that sentiment.

Posted by: submandave at October 20, 2004 10:33 AM

Josh Marshall says it best:

This is lovely.

Click on this link and you’ll go to the Ashley’s Story website. It’s part of an ad campaign running on conservative websites.

Ashley is a young girl whose mother died in the World Trade Center. And earlier this year, at a campaign event, she was comforted for her loss by President Bush. It’s an affecting picture and I’m sure it was an equally affecting moment.

Go to the Ashley’s Story website and you’ll find an earth-toned montage of images about Ashley, the foundation set up in her mother’s honor and more.

There’s even a link you can click on to make a contribution to “spread Ashley’s story.”

If you click around the site a little further though you see that the money is actually for a slew of anti-Kerry attack ads.

There is an Ashley’s Story ad, about how President Bush changed the girl’s life. But that’s just one. The other eight include the ‘Surfer Dude’ ad ridiculing Kerry as a windsurfer who flipflops, another — What If — that asks the terrifying question of what would have happened if 9/11 had happened on Kerry’s watch rather than President Bush’s, and a slew of others of a similar sort.

The Ashley’s Story fundraiser site is actually a pitch for Progress for America Voter Fund.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_17.php#003729

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The Democrats should have Iraqi Ali’s story, about how his family is now been assigned the ‘collateral damage’, or Gi Joe’s story, about how Joe was killed in a roadside bomb in Iraq and left behind a wife and children for an illegal and unprovoked war. I mean, fair is fair.

Posted by: Vince at October 20, 2004 12:45 PM

Geee, Vince. Next time there’s a RegimeChange in your own neighborhood, let us know beforehand. I’m sure there’s a few pithy comments we could make about your PM. Oh… But he’s out, ain’t he?

My bad.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at October 20, 2004 02:01 PM

The Democrats should have Iraqi Ali’s story, about how his family is now been assigned the ‘collateral damage’, or Gi Joe’s story, about how Joe was killed in a roadside bomb in Iraq and left behind a wife and children for an illegal and unprovoked war.

Yes, by all means do that. Please. I’ll donate.
It won’t have the effect you think it will.

Posted by: Ebonic Plague at October 20, 2004 02:54 PM

Just out of curiosity guys….anyone know who Jane Fonda is voting for this year??? Just wondering.

Posted by: BH57 at October 20, 2004 03:53 PM

Can someone get a scoobiesnack to Vince so he’ll calm down?

There there Vince…we know you agree with Kerry that Americans dieing under the UN flag is noble, but dieing under the American flag is not.

But we all don’t feel that way.

Posted by: Darleen at October 21, 2004 12:34 AM

…didn`t take long did it..

Posted by: Rob_NC at October 21, 2004 08:03 AM

Ah Vince, you’re on the losing end of this one.

This is a situation where it’d be best if you simply kept quiet. the Ad is powerful and anything you say will just seem sour grapes.

Again, whatever it is, as long as Bush is part of it, People like Vince will be against it. Remember that moment at the RNC convention with Zell? The audience was chanting Against, against ,against.

that you vince, not really for anything but some variations on a theme by Karl Marx and against virtually everything else.

Posted by: skip at October 21, 2004 09:34 AM

I cannot believe how absolutely ridiculous the statement, “Just out of curiosity guys….anyone know who Jane Fonda is voting for this year??? Just wondering.”, sounds.

Get over it already. I know it is hard for some of you to accept that in regards to Vietnam, Jane got it right and you didn’t.

Posted by: Bolivarian Revolutionary at October 21, 2004 05:12 PM

Actually BR, the question was meant as a joke just to break the seriousness of the blog. But since you brought it up, I don’t think Jane Fonda was right about anything. The one thing I remember was this quote:

On November 21, 1970 she told a University of Michigan audience of some two thousand students, “If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist.” At Duke University in North Carolina she repeated what she had said in Michigan, adding “I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism. ” Washington Times July 7, 2000

Seems to me she didn’t get it right! As I recall, Kerry was present in a lot of those rally’s. Wonder if he feels the same way!

Sorry, guess we should stick to the original blog huh? Don’t want to offend BR again.

Posted by: BH57 at October 21, 2004 06:53 PM