New Bush ad links Kerry, Castro

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sun, Oct. 24, 2004

New Bush ad links Kerry, Castro

BY KENNETH R. BAZINET AND HELEN KENNEDY
New York Daily News


FORT MYERS, Fla. - (KRT) - President Bush swept through the election battleground of Florida Saturday as his campaign began airing an attack ad in the state linking John Kerry to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Kerry took his campaign west, stumping bilingually in Colorado, then heading to New Mexico before returning to the fight in Florida.

The 30-second Bush campaign ad, in Spanish, depicts Kerry as sympathetic toward Castro and targets South Florida's Cuban-Americans. The community long had been overwhelmingly Republican but has begun to splinter over economic hardships it claims the Bush administration has put on family and friends still in Cuba.

The spot whacks at Kerry for voting in 1996 against legislation, known as the Helms-Burton Act, which beefed up economic sanctions on Cuba. The ad charges Kerry and the "liberals in Congress ... don't understand what a dictator is."

But Kerry opposed one particular provision that would have brought frivolous lawsuits, a campaign spokesman said. Ironically, the Bush administration is on the record as opposing the same provision.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/election2004/10002389.htm

[Zen Democrat]

1. Wow. Florida must really be going strong for Kerry.

When Bush has to spend money in the last week of the campaign to turn out the Cuban vote in Florida ... it's all over, baby.

[Florida_Geek]

3. Kerry wants to return to the 1 trip a year to Cuba

over Bush's one trip ever THREE years that he put in place around 1 1/2 years ago. All but the far far right of the Cuban-Americans hate that change. They want to go to Cuba to see their relatives.

And yes Bush has lost a lot of CA to his change.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Bush's attempt to please his CANF buddies

by putting enacting stricter travel restrictions was a big mistake. Even Elian can't save Bush this time.

[Laelth]

8. These last nine days ...

will be nothing more than an experiment to determine how low a politician can go to save his lying ...

Laelth Predicts: More ugliness to come.

... and it won't help him at all. :)

In the words of the great Carole King ...

"Oh it's too late, baby, now, it's too late ..."

:dem:

Kerry on!

-Laelth


Edit:Laelth--spelling ... whoops.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Hitler...Hussein...and now Castro

bush sure does like equating his opponents, be they republican or democrat, to dictators.

McCain...Cleland...Gore...and now Kerry.

bush sure has dictators on his wee brain.

bush IS a dictator.

Rightwingnuts & their projectionism.

[54anickel]

14. Wasn't there a recent headline stating Russia endorses Bush, or

something to that effect?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Go Floridians!

[orpupilofnature57]

6. That would be poetic justice, go Florida!!

[flordehinojos]

7. B u s h i s d e s p e r a t e

[nolabels]

9. Is this today's new talking point?

I am so afraid of being invaded by Cuba :scared:

Sure glad Bush stopped the Iraqis from invading also :-)

[Octafish]

10. I know what a dictator is: Bush. The BFEE loves terrorists.

Take Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, Gaspar Jimenez, Guillermo Novo and Pedro Remon. Bosch and company helped blow up up a Cuban airliner with more than 70 people aboard. Smirko would love them all, if only he knew.

[goforit]

11. roflmao!!!..Now that will backfire!!!!..Kerry/Castro??? Not even close!!!

[Cocoa]

12. Bush is a pander bear

Kerry should run another animal-themed ad, "there's a pander bear in the woods..."

[AP]

13. John Edwards now has one more thing to add to his "These guys will say any

thing to get elected" speech.