George Bush's "Bart Simpson" Defense

[Joe Fields]

Let's cut the charade. George Bush's "Bart Simpson" approach to campaigning (I didn't do it, man. You can't prove a thing) is as transparent as cellophane. No matter how many times he uses soap and water, his hands still won't come clean.

This week one of the Bush/Cheney campaign's top legal advisors, Ben Ginsberg (you may remember him from the 2000 Florida recount fiasco) admitted to advising the Swift Boat Veterans For (Truth?) 527 organization. That action, we have since learned is not illegal, since attorneys are allowed to play both sides of the same coin. But if Bush hasn't yet gotten caught red-handed violating the letter of the law, he sure as hell has violated the spirit of it. It is nearly impossible now, with so many connections to the Swift Boat Veterans group to continue the Bart Simpson defense. Yet the emphatic denials continue. Do we need to have phone records and memos from the president that prove a connection? Hardly.

Bush's campaign tactics are some of the most unseemly that I can ever recall. But you know the old saying - like father, like son. Number 41 smeared Michael Dukakis with the Willie Horton ads. The son has the swift boat vets. This year we are witnessing an endless stream of distortions and lies, which are being stretched and pulled like saltwater taffy. It would be all too easy to say that the Bushies don't realize that freedom of speech doesn't equate with a freedom to lie. They know exactly what they are doing by taking the campaign directly into the mud.

I don't care about campaign finance laws. If I had my way, we would do away with them completely. Let the parties raise as much money as they can, any way they can. McCain Feingold is a joke, with loopholes in it large enough to drive large truckloads of money through. What I do care about though, is truth in campaign advertising. The FEC and the FCC should go to great lengths to make sure that no ad is allowed to be aired until it has been thoroughly fact checked. Voters deserve no less. Then we just might get back to discussing issues and informing the electorate, instead of trying to assassinate one's character. What a novel idea.

Joe Fields

[DinahMoeHum]

1. "Out, damned spot, out, out, I say!"

Couldn't resist.

Watch it, George. Birnam Wood is coming to high Dunsinane, and MacDuff (Kerry) is coming for your head.

:evilgrin:

[maine_raptor]

2. You better clarify that statement frankzappa

Any lurking Freeper will be totally confused by it. Besides they all consider Will S. to be a pinko-commie anyways.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Screw 'em if they don't understand Shakespeare. . .

or was Shakespeare a pinko-commie, too?

:evilgrin:

P.S. I'd mention the play, but it's considered bad luck.

[maine_raptor]

4. Big time Commie

Wasn't "Merchant of Venice" actually about Karl Marx?

"pound of flesh" vs collective farms, see the connection?

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Touche! LMAO !

:evilgrin: