are the Republicans reminding people that Osama's still out there?  Why are they reminding people that Bush chose to go to war with Iraq instead of focusing on the terrorist threat?  I say we should send them a check and ask if we can use it. 

Again, thankyouthankyouthankyou RNC!!! :)

I also came across this on ebay, via www.fark.com -- a Mark Foley action figure:

  http://cgi.ebay.com/...

I don't think this was made to air on TV.  The Republicans are just hoping people talk enough about it so it gets covered in the press.

What ad? I know nothing...

...that the DNC should run the exact same ad (same ticking and graphics) with the addition of the audio of Bush (on March 13, 2002 - 6 MONTHS after 9/11) saying "I don't know where he is.  You know, I just don't spend that much time on him" over and over (and over)...

The single worst ad I've seen in years.  Pitbull is right, this ad will be seen as fearmongering.

Bush did not do anything to catch Bush family friend Osama Bin Laden.  So get out and vote for Dems who WILL take terrorism seriously.  That's how I interpret the message.

All they have to sell is fear itself.

My wife and I were watching and agree, Lowell

Hope they do a $5 million ad buy with it.

Looks like someone's first attempt at using editing softwhere.

Are we sure that when it actually airs there isn't some other subliminal babble under the radar, intended to program our subconscious?

I find it hard to believe that this not going to be followed by another, 2d ad )and maybe a 3rd and 4th), more explicitly ordering you to vote republican, or else...

On the other hand, this ad does hit all the fear points used so successfully by the GOP in past elections, and it is exactly what Rove and Hugh Hewitt and others promised us would be the Republican theme.  Are you sure that we are not too sophisticated, east coast, inside-the-Beltway liberal mindset, that we miss the possibility that mid-America, having been so well programmed for fear in the past will not respond automatically like Pavlov's dog once more?  Especially if this is just the first of a relentless Fear Campaign.

How many people remember the Bear walking thru the woods. It seemed stupid to most of us De,o's but It sure got the attention of a lot of other people. It was declared a complete success by political pundents ond the media.

This ad has more in it then meets the eye. Do not be too fast to call it stupid.

There's clearly a "grim reaper" over al Zawahari's shoulder! 

Then there is the possibility that this entire Doom-laden ad feeds the Armageddon narrative so beloved of the politicized evangelicals, the narrative which actually seems to be driving much of Bush's foreign policy--- all of which apparently is focusing on converting the heathen, fighting the anti-Christ, and preparing the World for the Appocalypse and the Second Coming (by supporting the invasion of Iraq and Lebanon, and so on, you see). 

The ticking clock, the firey globe, the dark and menacing figures in the background, the photos of the bearded enemy and the threatening quotes, are very Biblical and reek of prophecy. I suspect this is a deliberate appeal to that element of the base, and also to the large number of people who truly do believe in Creationism and the God of Wrath.

I was wondering the same thing, Teddy. 

Hitting the nail on the head. You Guys are fantastic thinkers and have the knowledge to see the true agenda.

America take note of the wisdom on RK.

Thanks Teddy and Kathy for the foresight.

Maybe they have conceded the tsunami that will occur  on nov 7,
and this add is the first salvo for the 2008 election.

Most elections,  they get conceded in late october by the LOSERS, and they start laying the groundwork for the next one.

By the way, fill your gas tanks, the price is going back up.  Yell "bush sux" everytime the dollar notches up whilst you fill up.

Those are the exact same words, mind you, that LBJ used in his famous Daisy ad. We all know how Barry Goldwater turned out.

I really don't understand that thing at all.  Why is there a bubble in the middle of the screen.  It just looks so stupid.

And I love Teddy's Revelations analysis.  I think she may have it.

Here's an ad that is not quite as bad, being used against Harold Ford:

http://guerillawomen...

(Ford went to a Playboy-sponsored Super Bowl Party; that's the bimbo reference used twice in the ad; I can't see the bimbo reference turning off many males to Ford--more likely it'd turn them off to the GOP)

This is the Republican response to all the culture of corruption themes by Democrats. Has anybody called the dear little thing in the ad's finale? She did ask.

Why don't a bunch of guys (and even gals, heh, heh) call the Republican National Committee, or whoever is sponsoring the ad, and say it's in response to the sweet little trick at the end of the anti-Harold Ford ad. We just want to see if the Republicans can deliver on that wink, heh, heh. Let's have some guerrilla street thetre here.

This ad is weird.  However, I have no doubt that it is not directed to us.  It is directed to hardcore supporters who just trust bush and ask few if any questions.  The Richmond Times Dispatch interviewed the man who owns the pumpkin patch that bush stopped at on his way into Richmond the other day.  The man "loves listening to Rush Limbaugh in the cab of his 20-year-old F-350 pickup truck" and "told President Bush on Thursday,'You are my hero.'" This man may be incredibly nice and I don't know what his definition is of the word, "hero"; however, I think he and I would require a translator to have a conversation.

Did anyone notice that those threats have been made during a complete control by the Republican party?  Looks like they are the party of scaried pants.

All the threats and attacks in the past six years are caused by Republicans - take that you whinny babies - give security to people who actually know what they are doing.

Hey side note - we are getting alot of military - defense people at our Webb lit drops in Northern VA - (Mt. Vernon district).  They are sick of the whinny baby neocons.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~H. L. Mencken

Its halloween season. The ad looks more like a "trailer"  for one of those armageddon-judgement day-terminator II-flicks. Its difficult to read the script..but it doesn't matter..its all about the images. Sole purpose is to stir up the fear section of the brain; the amygdala. GOP has been heavy into the fear factor..just listen to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld speeches. Will it stick ? Remember that people read AND believe stuff in those tabloids !!