Posted on 06/19/2008 5:59:39 AM PDT by Sopater
(CNSNews.com) - Does any doting mother want to think about putting her firstborn baby in harm's way? Liberal backers of Sen. Barack Obama are banking on a "no" answer.
The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is running a political ad featuring a new mother, bouncing baby boy on her lap, chiding John McCain about wanting to wage a "hundred-year" war in Iraq.
"John McCain, when you say you would stay in Iraq for a hundred years, were you counting on Alex? Because if you were, you can't have him," the mother (actress) says with a quaver in her voice. (See video)
Many anti-war liberals like the ad. A quick scan of the liberal Democrat Underground Web site found the following accolades: "It is how many of us moms feel." "That is a very good ad." "They should also do one with a Dad -- not only Moms feel that way." "LOVE this ad."
But some people are offended by the ad's suggestion that McCain wants to keep the Iraq war going until babies like Alex are old enough to fight. What if Alex grows up and wants to serve his country? one YouTube contributor asked (see clip).
As Cybercast News Service has previously reported, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) never said he wants to fight the Iraq War for 100 years.
The "100 years" controversy dates back to a Jan. 3 town hall meeting in Derry, N.H. In response to a voter's question about how many years U.S. troops might stay in Iraq, McCain said:
"Maybe 100. We've been in South Korea -- we've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. It's fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training, recruiting, and equipping and motivating people every single day."
McCain repeatedly has clarified that he does not foresee 100 years of U.S. combat in Iraq -- just a lengthy post-war troop presence. (See earlier story)
Beyond the misreprentation of McCain's remark, some bloggers are taking offense at the ad's implication that no one would serve in the military unless forced to do so.
MoveOn.org's "Baby Alex" ad is airing nationally for the next week, at a cost of $543,000, the Associated Press reported.
We could end it a LOT sooner, if we didn’t pay any attention to the left wing of the world.
Dear Cowardly woman:
Don’t worry about Alex. There are still enough real Americans willing to fight so you pansy son can stay at home.
I hope you like him living in your basement in about 30 years.
I wonder if Alex would rather be trained to fight and be equipped to do so as a Marine,
or die in an office building just doing his job because the left wussified our country so much that we just sit back and take it when attacked.
The chick should have said: “I aborted my first two babies because, like, it wasn’t, like, totally convenient for me to be a mother yet. But I now have a live-in boyfriend and so I, like, said, what the hell, I’ll have this one. If I’d, like, known John McCain was gonna keep fighting, I’d, like, have had another abortion.”
That’d be a more accurate portrayal of the typical, shallow liberal female.
This is going to backfire- it is idiocy
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What a stark contrast to those videos of crazy Palestinian mothers declaring they will gladly sacrifice all of their sons to blow up Israeli children and grandmothers on buses. And these are the people these leftists support.
Abortion survivor, Baby Alex, just left the most dangerous place that he’ll ever be, the womb of a left wing woman with choice. Iraq will be a day at the beach for Alex compared to that.
If he survives childhood, puberty and the teenage years without learning to love show tunes and Judy Garland.
Baby Alex is doomed to be as stupid as his mother.
Another Münchhausen Cindy in the making.
‘Daughter of the Ghoul of Sixties Past.’
Perhaps the best counter to this ad would be to show the videos of the children murdered by Islamic terrorists at the Russian school. Brave men and women are volunteering to put their lives on the line in Iraq and elsewhere so baby Alex won’t end up like these kids.
Not necessarily...Casey Sheehan became a real man.
I like show tunes and Judy Garland. What’s wrong with that? =)
My first thoughts on seeing this video were,
*that isn't that girl's baby. I don't even think she's a mother*
Just my gut feeling.
Well, it all depends, do you have an uncontrollable urge to redecorate your friends homes and do you identify a womans shoes by the designer?
And lastly does the word “girlfriend” pepper your conversations with your male friends???
A quick scan of the liberal Democrat Underground Web site found the following accolades: “It is how many of us moms feel.” “That is a very good ad.” “They should also do one with a Dad — not only Moms feel that way.” “LOVE this ad.”
What a source.
Something causes me to suspect that this mother of Alex, is yet another unmarried DimboSlut, on government assistance.
Re the last, and “girlfriend” does not refer to a significant other...
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