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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT?
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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who started this subject12/15/2003 3:07:03 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 3079
 
DEAN responds to attack ads:

[Be sure to watch the ad. It's classic Karl Rove/Joseph Goebbels propaganda. Very slick productions values. Obviously the hand of some creeps like Hill & Knowlton or John Rendon & Associates is involved in this stink. ]

Dear Volunteer,

A faceless group that the Washington Post calls "despicable" is using hundreds of
thousands of dollars to air vicious television ads that use pictures of Osama bin Laden
to attack Howard Dean.

To watch the attack ad in Windows Media Player, click here:

deanforamerica.com

The secretive group that is running the ads call themselves "Americans for Jobs, Health
Care and Progressive Values." The Washington Post condemned the group in an
editorial on Saturday:

["Progressive values" apparently] don't include letting voters
know who's footing the bill. Under the out-of-sync reporting schedule that
governs such groups, donors' names don't have to be revealed until early
February. So is the money from unions that back Mr. Gephardt but don't
want to be publicly connected to this anti-Dean campaign? Or is it from a
few wealthy donors who don't like Mr. Dean -- and perhaps
are backing another one of the trailing Democratic
candidates? From Republicans who want to take Mr. Dean
down a few notches? There's no way for a voter to know,
not in time for that information to make a difference.

This outside-group dodge, from those who pose as
champions of "progressive values," [is] despicable. "I
believe strongly in the view of Thomas Jefferson that an
informed electorate helps insure the strength of
democracy," [the group's president] said on the group's
Web site. Informed, that is, of what he chooses to tell
them. What hypocrisy.

Ads like this are the reason half of Americans don't vote. All Democrats should be working to bring people back into
the political process -- not turning them off.

Thank you for everything you do for our campaign.

Joe Trippi
Campaign Manager
Dean for America

PS To read the entire Washington Post editorial, click here:
deanforamerica.com

To read more about the attack, please read our blog:
blog.deanforamerica.com
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