I’m disgusted that Dubya is using September 11 as a tactic in his re-election, and the appearance of smoking wreckage of the Twin Towers in his commercial is appalling.
What’s worse is the campaign’s attempts to justify it:
Long time Bush adviser Karen Hughes defended the four commercials — which began running on Thursday in at least 16 important battleground states — as “tastefully done.”
Tastefully done? They’ve reduced the tragedy of that day into something Martha Stewart might embroider on a doily? Tastefully done?!
I’ve been disgusted by all the “tasteful” uses of September 11, from t-shirts to license plates, but this is just the last straw. The lives of all those people — including someone I knew — are worth far more than this.
I suggest that the Kerry campaign put together a commercial that shows such events as Bush’s cocaine addiction, his wife’s driving foibles, his daughters’ illegal alcohol binges, his brother’s philandering… but do it tastefully. After all, we want to change the tone in Washington.
