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#1 Jan 13 2005 at 8:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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Seen those mustang commercials where Steve McQueen comes out of the corn to drive the Mustang? Or the commercials with Fred Astaire dancing with a Hoover Vacuum? Or maybe John Wayne with a 6-pack of MGD? Well apparently the pubbies are promoting their social security plans with images of FDR
#3 Jan 13 2005 at 8:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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I believe the commercial goes something like this. In old black and white footage, FDR sits in his wheel chair. At a podium, Bush Sr. speaks to a crowd of people. On either side of FDR are the Bush boys, Jeb and George Jr. George Sr. speaks about the importance of fixing the broken social security system. An obviously distraught FDR sits and whinces while Sr. goes on about the need to privatize social security. In the front row of the audience, a bunch of men in suits rub their hands together like a preying mantis about to eat it's mate.

George Sr. decides to reveal the name of the new social programs.

"Ladies and gentelmen, I give you the Neo New Deal"

Apalled, FDR starts to lunge forward at Sr. out of his chair. Two hands clamp down on each of his shoulders and hold him in place. The camera zooms in on Jr. and he grimaces, shaking his head ever so slightly, yet menacingly at FDR. Roosevelt looks to his other side to see Jeb smiling and staring off into the crowd. He looks down to see a long, shiny object in Jeb's hand, glinting in the sun. FDR's eyes wander to his legs.



"The Neo New Deal"
Paid for by the Bush Crime Family

Edited, Thu Jan 13 21:38:50 2005 by BoondockSaint
#5 Jan 13 2005 at 9:17 PM Rating: Good
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Absolutely, grotesquely shameless.

Let's watch the pubbies lap it up, shall we?
#6 Jan 13 2005 at 9:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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Absolutely, grotesquely shameless.

Let's watch Gbaji write seven paragraphs defending it and comparing it to some insanely loosely related thing the Democrats did in 1993, shall we?
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#7 Jan 13 2005 at 9:28 PM Rating: Decent
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FDR's Grandson doesn't like the ad either.

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"My grandfather would surely oppose the ideas now being promoted by this administration and your organization," James Roosevelt Jr., wrote in a letter to Progress for America, a private group that supports conservative issues.

Roosevelt, who served as the Social Security Administration's associate commissioner for retirement policy in the Clinton administration, said, "On behalf of my family, I would ask that you cease using my grandfather's image in your advertising campaign."
#8 Jan 13 2005 at 9:44 PM Rating: Decent
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angstycoder wrote:
I don't have television


Smiley: yikes
you Quaker
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With the receiver in my hand..
#10 Jan 14 2005 at 1:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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What? Gbaji? No defense?
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