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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (752334)	10/24/2006 12:20:51 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I agree. (Although, I've always had an interest in the METHODS and SKILLS involved in political manipulations: from Nixon's most excellent 'Checkers' speech, to Machiavelli, to Hitler, to the Kingfish.) Fascinated by the art --- while repulsed by the corruption and slime. (You just can't turn away. :-) PS --- What do 'ya think of this appeal: Message 22938555

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (752334)	10/24/2006 3:01:24 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I voted for the diaper guy did the diaper guy crap his diaper? :o)

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (752334)	10/25/2006 11:20:37 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Speaking of negative ads... a new brace of them just hit: Ford fights off allegations in latest attack ad By Richard Locker Contact October 25, 2006 commercialappeal.com NASHVILLE -- Democrat Harold Ford Jr.'s campaign called on Tennessee TV stations Tuesday to cease airing a new ad from the Republican National Committee that says he voted to "recognize gay marriage" and "wants to give the abortion pill to our schoolchildren" -- charges his lawyers called false and libelous. Ford campaigned here in his U.S. Senate bid with groups as diverse as the United Auto Workers Local 737 in industrial West Nashville and the Nashville Exchange Club downtown. At each stop, he said that he -- not Republican Bob Corker -- is the candidate for change. "This is America, where if you work hard and play by the rules, you can achieve things," Ford told about 300 retired UAW members packed into their union hall. "But somehow or another it's gotten away from us. This war, health care costs, our borders -- all of it has gotten away from us. And the group we've had there now for 12 years created a train wreck. They're not bad people, they just manage it real bad." Ford sounded four major themes for the day, in the city that is second only to Memphis in importance for Democrats running statewide: the need for change, new policies to help working Americans, the Republican National Committee ads, and the war in Iraq. The latest RNC ad is the second to begin airing in less than a week that have drawn criticism. The first ends with a bare-shouldered blonde woman asking for Ford to "call me" -- a reference to the Memphis congressman attending a Playboy-sponsored party at the 2005 Super Bowl, an appearance that he confirmed for the first time Tuesday. "I was there. I like football and I like girls. I don't have no apologies for that," he told reporters. The second ad, which started Monday, shows two tuxedo-clad young men side by side and claims Ford voted to recognize gay marriage, and a prep school girl in a sweater and plaid skirt with a voiceover saying he "wants to give the abortion pill to our schoolchildren." Ford's campaign lawyers said in a letter to station managers that the two charges are "blatantly false and libelous" and demanded they be taken off the air. Campaign spokesman Michael Powell said stations have asked the RNC to substantiate the claims and if it won't or can't, will remove them. The ad cites a Sept. 19, 2000, vote on a bill that RNC spokesman Danny Diaz said would have prohibited elementary and high schools from distributing "emergency post-coital contraception to minors." Ford's campaign said the so-called "morning-after pill" hadn't even been approved in the U.S. by then. The Ford lawyers said the gay-marriage vote cited in the ad was on whether state or federal courts had jurisdiction to review claims under the Defense of Marriage Act, not a vote to "recognize" gay marriage and that Ford voted for the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage the two times it has reached the House floor. The RNC's Diaz said Tuesday night the ad "is 100 percent accurate. It's going to stay on the air." Vanderbilt University political science professor John G. Geer, author of a new book "In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns," attended Ford's downtown speech and told reporters the RNC ad is unlike any he's ever seen. "You don't run these ads when you think you have a chance of winning. You run these ads when you're behind. They must have internal polling that tells them they're in trouble," said Geer, who likened the new ads to the "Swiftboat" ads against Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race. A new Mason-Dixon Tennessee Poll conducted last week showed Corker at 45 percent and Ford at 43 percent. At the union hall, Ford told retirees from the nearby Ford Glass Plant that American troops have been placed in a difficult situation in Iraq "because there really is no clear plan or strategic objective for them on the ground." "In Iraq right now we've asked our soldiers to be referees in a civil war... I'm not a supporter of pulling out of Iraq but I'm a believer that you've got to try different options." Contact Nashville bureau chief Richard Locker at (615) 255-4923. Copyright 2006, commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN. All Rights Reserved.