MSNBC - Bush ad uses wolves to imply Kerry weak

MSNBC - Bush ad uses wolves to imply Kerry weak

There's a couple of problems with this ad. If the Bush people had anything to say about it, I'm sure we wouldn't have wolves... and not just the ones that imply American enemies, wolves themselves. For those of us who feel a connection with wolves, we know that you need environmental programs to keep them around, and Bush certainly doesn't support those. This ad does just the opposite of what it's supposed to do for me. It makes me see more that Bush is a very bad man. He's just like a jerk who goes out and hunts wolves nearly to extinction without considering the impact it might have on the world. Instead of just creating an analogy, it brings other issues to the table that are very much like the issues it tries to address... but in neither case is it beneficial for Bush. Wolves are noble creatures who fulfill an important requirement in nature, and similarly, there are reasons that terrorists attack other people. If we understood what those reasons were, we could control that problem. If we just go out and kill all of them without thinking, we just create more problems. I thought this ad might upset me, because I'm a wolf person, but it turns out to be so ironic and very much on the nose without his realizing it that I almost don't dislike it... as long as people actually think about what they're seeing and doing.