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["Parker, David X" <dmp31526 AT GlaxoWellcome.com>]

> One more question:
> 
> If Kerry were to use imagery from the Vietnam war and speak about dying
> soldiers in an ad for his presidential campaign, would that be offensive
> as
> well? 
> 
> 
Will everybody please stop asking ridiculous rhetorical questions? Yes,
putting "Remember Pearl Harbor" on a Roosevelt election button was
egregious. Yes, if Kerry used imagery from the Vietnam War it would be
offensive. And yes, Bush using images of 9/11 is offensive. That was the
original point, right? Remember that the fury over the imagery is coming
from people who lost friends and loved ones on that day and see Bush's
current ads as a cynical political ploy.

Some say W has every right to trumpet his response to 9/11, and it's true,
to a point. When it came to the immediate response, he did exactly what he
should have done. (You can't say, however, that any other president wouldn't
have done the same, a bit of faulty logic that I hear a lot these days.)
Opinions are mixed about the war against Iraq, and opinions differ on Bush's
domestic policies, but all he's doing to address these is beating the 9/11
drum, and it's wearing out very quickly.

- Dave P.