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.
I knew that the day McCain said 100 years, he made a huge gaff. We all know what he meant, but we all also knew what the libs would do with that sound bite.
“And lastly does the word girlfriend pepper your conversations with your male friends???”
Only when my wife of 35 years isn’t around.
LOL, you’re safe then.
The ad targets imbeciles who cannot develop a rational thought. My guess is that it will be effective.
The Republicans want to snatch babies from their mothers’ arms and force them to fight a war for 100 years.
Some nuts out there actually believe this.
I don’t think he’ll be allowed to chase dogs anymore either.
simple response to that ad,
mother with baby, preferably young mother,
stating.
“My son Jack was never a punishment to me, and I have always been so proud of my country, that were it to be up in harms way, I would gladly encourage my son to defend it to his dying breath”
When my son told me he was enlisting in the United States Marine Corps in 2003, he had so much conviction in his voice and in his heart.... and scared as I was (we were already in Iraq), the pride was overwhelming... Thoughts of “.....this is what I get for raising an oustanding citizen and flying the flag every day...” nagged at me, but also a feeling of success in guiding his values.
President Ronald Reagan:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
The DemocRATS have brought back "Daisy".
They’ve already said it was “wrong” to compare Obama to Chamberlain.
Obama sets the rules.
He’s also going to go with private financing for this election at the same time the DNC is holding McCain to public funding (and limits).
Where is Baby Alex's FATHER???
Sorry, honey, but when Alex turns 18, it’s not your decision whether the military can ‘have’ him any more, and it’s not gonna be McCain’s decision whether we’re in Iraq or not either. So, the ad is pretty much completely irrelevant... did someone actually spend money for it?
You got it.
"I begged Casey not to go. I told him I would take him to Canada. I told him I would run over him with a car, anything to get him not to go to that immoral war." - Cindy Sheehan on Democracy Now (June 29, 2005)
That is NOT a peaceful act and that is NOT a mother loving her son. That is someone who puts her petty politics above the health and welfare of her family.
My first thought was "Why is moveon contibuting to the stereotype of blondes as complete idiots?"
MOM = Cindy Sheehanesque dingbat.
ALEX = Girly Man in training.
MoveOn.org = Seditionist army of nut jobs (almost as bad as the ACLU).
WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?
DOES SHE NEED ONE?
CAN’T HE HAVE TWO MOTHERS?
just kidding!!
Barack took absent fathers (like his own) to task this past Father’s day. I’m waiting for his campaign to weigh in on this issue and denounce this ad for showing a single parent household (it is a work of fiction).
They are turning their children into cowards. What kind of parent does that to their child on purpose?
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