THIS is the ad to bring down bush* -- watch it, and then DONATE!!!!!!!!!!

[scarletwoman]

http://www.winbackrespect.org/ads/

I know this has already been posted here and there in various threads for a couple days, but this ad is SOOOOOOO excellent and effective I want to make sure as many DUers as possible know about it!

I've sent them some money -- and I'm BEGGING you all to send some too!

sw

[swag]

1. It's a great ad. They're aiming for a $1 million buy, but I hope they

get $3 million.



Contribute:

http://www.winbackrespect.org/newsite/amountpage.php

[scarletwoman]

3. It was really easy to donate -- took less than a minute!

Just think -- if 50,000 DUers each sent $5.00!

sw

[frogfromthenorth2]

2. Dumbass....

Naturally I am talking about *

[Mr_Spock]

4. I donated.

That's my kind of message.

[swag]

5. Oh, p.s. - I gave them $100 I didn't have, then sent the appeal

in my weekly political spam to friends and family.

Eli Pariser and the moveonpac crew are getting in on the action too. This one needs big play. It's the hard kick in the gut voters need over the next week and a half.

So kick some in if you can.

[scarletwoman]

9. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

:loveya:

I'm spreading the word too, and I'm really glad to hear that moveonpac is on it as well.

You're so right about "the hard kick in the gut"! This is an ad that can really break through the fog of denial, I truly believe it!

sw

[City Lights]

6. We donated $100 the other day.

I've never donated so much money to political causes in years past as I have this time around. I've put all my other causes on hold until after the election. All my donations are going to oust the chimp.

[grace0418]

12. Yeah, me too

I set up my CafePress page so I could donate the proceeds to the cause of removing Dumbya. I told myself that I'd donate whatever I made after paying for my account. Well, I ended up donating all the money I made and then some. It's just too important.

[swag]

7. If the O'Lielly vibrator show ranks front page, this thread certainly does

I'm nominating this now.

Come on, DU. Moveonpac, Josh Marshall, and mydd.com have given this frontpage treatment. We should too.

And kick in generously!

[scarletwoman]

15. Thank you! I was really hoping someone would nominate this!

(can't nominate your own thread, ya know)

Atrios has been promoting it too!

sw

[Lancer]

8. I saw another very moving ad yesterday

with a young soldier, the theme of which is "they weren't there," meaning WMD. He repeats this refrain a couple of times as it relates to different aspects of the war.

At the end of the ad the camera pulls back to reveal his missing arm. The young man says "and when people ask me how I lost my arm, the words just aren't there."

Can't remember if this is a DNC ad, but I cried everytime I saw it yesterday.

[JohnnyCougar]

34. I donated to that one!

www.optruth.org

That one's better at targeting males, I think.

[swag]

37. That is a hell of a good ad.

Thanks.

[timezoned]

10. Oh man. Read this and then try and NOT give them a donation

This deserves to be seen here. Letter on the Web site accompanying the ad.





To Whom it May Concern,

I found out that my brother, Sergeant Ryan M. Campbell, was dead during a graduate seminar at Emory University on April 29, 2004. Immediately after a uniformed officer knocked at my mother's door to deliver the message that broke her heart, she called me on my cell phone. She could say nothing but "He's gone." I could say nothing but "No." Over and over again we chanted this refrain to each other over the phone as I made my way across the country to hold her as she wept.

I had made the very same trip in February, cutting classes to spend my brother's two weeks' leave from Baghdad with him. Little did I know then that the next time I saw him would be at Arlington National Cemetery. During those days in February, my brother shared with me his fear, his disillusionment, and his anger. "We had all been led to believe that Iraq posed a serious threat to America as well as its surrounding nations," he said. "We invaded expecting to find weapons of mass destruction and a much more prepared and well-trained Republican Guard waiting for us. It is now a year later, and alas, no weapons of mass destruction or any other real threat, for that matter."

Ryan was scheduled to complete his one-year assignment to Iraq on April 25. But on April 11, he emailed me to let me know not to expect him in Atlanta for a May visit, because his tour of duty had been involuntarily extended. "Just do me one big favor, ok?" he wrote. "Don't vote for Bush. No. Just don't do it. I would not be happy with you."

Last night, I listened to George W. Bush's live, televised speech at the Republican National Convention. He spoke to me and my family when he announced, "I have met with parents and wives and husbands who have received a folded flag, and said a final goodbye to a soldier they loved. I am awed that so many have used those meetings to say that I am in their prayers and to offer encouragement to me. Where does strength like that come from? How can people so burdened with sorrow also feel such pride? It is because they know their loved one was last seen doing good. Because they know that liberty was precious to the one they lost. And in those military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, and idealistic, and strong."

This is my reply: Mr. President, I know that you probably still "don't do body counts," so you may not know that almost one thousand U.S. troops have died doing what you told them they had to do to protect America. Ryan was Number 832. Liberty was, indeed, precious to the one I lost-- so precious that he would rather have gone to prison than back to Iraq in February. Like you, I don't know where the strength for "such pride" on the part of people "so burdened with sorrow" comes from; maybe I spent it all holding my mother as she wept. I last saw my loved one at the Kansas City airport, staring after me as I walked away. I could see April 29 written on his sad, sand-chapped and sunburned face. I could see that he desperately wanted to believe that if he died, it would be while "doing good," as you put it. He wanted us to be able to be proud of him. Mr. President, you gave me and my mother a folded flag instead of the beautiful boy who called us "Moms" and "Brookster." But worse than that, you sold my little brother a bill of goods. Not only did you cheat him of a long meaningful life, but you cheated him of a meaningful death. You are in my prayers, Mr. President, because I think that you need them more than anyone on the face of the planet. But you will never get my vote.

So to whom it may concern: Don't vote for Bush. No. Just don't do it. I would not be happy with you.

Sincerely,
Brooke M. Campbell
Atlanta, GA


GO here:
http://www.winbackrespect.org/ads /

[DCal]

11. Where do you click to view the ad?

I see links to the older ads below, but can't find a link to this ad.

[timezoned]

14. You should see little grey boxes,

"view quicktime" or "view windows media" just below the photo

[DCal]

20. All I see is a red Contribute Now button

with white space between it and the picture. I tried scrolling around the white space, but there was nowhere to click. Maybe it's just my PC.

[swag]

16. Here are a couple links for you:

quicktime

http://www.winbackrespect.org/ads/ad5_qt.html

windows media player

http://www.winbackrespect.org/ads/ad5_wmp.html

[alcuno]

18. At the top of the page. Quicktime or Windows Media.

And welcome to DU.

[grace0418]

13. Thanks

I will send some money asap.

[grace0418]

17. Is there a way to find out

how much they've raised? It would be very motivating to see how close they are to their goal.

[swag]

19. I agree with you

I'll send an email to moveonpac and see if I get a response.

[spanone]

21. KICK!!!!!

[DuaneBidoux]

22. Anybody have George Soros email?

What we really need to do (thinking in terms of six degrees of connection by which we are all conneted) is get this to George Soros (the billionnaire who said he would give every dime he has to rid of King George), or people like Rob Reiner who could write out a couple of checks and the ad could run around the clock 'till election day.

[emulatorloo]

25. Moveon has it as well ;they showed it last nite on Hardball as upcoming ad

to be aired soon.

https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/doesntgetit.html

[scarletwoman]

26. I can't wait! I live in Minnesota (alleged swing state)...

Hope it shows here!

sw

[scarletwoman]

23. shameless kick...

[stray cat]

24. done

Nice ad

[mcg]

27. Done. Kick.

[BUSHOUT]

28. Donated $50. KICK!!! n/t

[bush equals idiot]

29. Donated what I could.

But why, why, WHY, didn't they let the girl use this as the last closing line:

"Mr. Bush, you think the death of my brother...is FUNNY ?


People would never get that out of their minds.

[scarletwoman]

30. Thanks -- and you're right about that for a closing line...

That would be a knockout ending. Oh well -- still plenty good as it stands, imho.

sw

[bush equals idiot]

31. Yup.

And I forgot to add, I would have her looking right into the camera and holding the folded flag they give her, for a military death.

It's still not too late for them to do it.

Let me in there on those advertising decisions. I'll show em how to shock voters out of their coma!

[scarletwoman]

33. Hey, I hope you write to them!

I don't know what would be the best way to get their attention, but I really do hope you'll make the attempt.

sw

[swag]

32. kick

[Iceburg]

35. Great ad

[JohnnyCougar]

36. I threw 50 bucks their way.

I also threw $50 to www.optruth.org. I encourage people to donate to this one, as it is equally as devistating, if not more.

I am pretty frugal with my money, but I decided that anything $100 can buy me isn't even close to what Bush going down in flames is worth!!

I am also strongly considering a $50 donation to Richard Morrison, DeLay's opponent.

But yes, even if you donate $5, 50,000 DUers can make a HUGE difference!

[NoPasaran]

38. Great ad

Donated this morning via Atrios

[lakeguy]

39. $50 given and then sent out the link to all my

friends and family.

[TakeBackUSA]

40. I just gave up $50 - Great ad

I've never gave to a political campaign or cause before this year, but this makes the seventh or eighth time this year.

[swag]

41. Kick for the poor puppies.

[proud patriot]

42. great add

:-( I knew that "joke" bush made would hurt the
families of soldiers . such an arrogant SOB

[grace0418]

43. .

kick