DNC had radio ads on for hours a day before Bush visit to TN.

[madfloridian]

Actually the TN one sounds pretty good. They are dogging his steps with radio ads that are on for hours in the cities where he is going.

http://www.tennessean.com/government/archives/05/03/66819911.shtml?Element_ID=66819911
SNIP..."National Democrats are trying to make sure President Bush doesn't get too comfortable on his overnight visit to Tennessee to promote his plan to create private investment accounts under Social Security.

And they're going after Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, while they're at it.

The Democratic National Committee has taken out radio ads around the state — timed to run while Bush is in Memphis today — slamming his proposal for the accounts and asking Tennesseans to call Blackburn and tell her to oppose the plan as well.
Blackburn's district stretches from near Nashville to the fringes of Memphis, but the ads will run statewide. She brushed them off.

''It's clear that (DNC chairman) Howard Dean and the Washington leftists at the Democratic National Committee don't know me, or they'd understand that I'm not afraid to discuss the big issues,'' she said. ''They are wasting their money.''

So far, polls show that Bush hasn't had great success persuading Americans that his plan makes sense. His visit to Tennessee and other states this week is aimed at shoring up support for private accounts, partly to reassure nervous Republicans in Congress that the plan won't cost them votes in next fall's elections.

Democrats are hoping it will.

SNIP..."Memphis Democrat Harold Ford, Jr., who opposes Bush's plan, will be at the event. Blackburn had scheduling conflicts and wasn't sure if she'd make it to Memphis. But after hearing the DNC ads, she instructed aides to try harder to find a way to get her there...."

Here are the ads in mp3. I like them.
http://www.democrats.org/audio/ad20050303/

[Enquiringkitty]

1. I've saved it to my "musicmatch" so I can bring it back up in

2008. Some may have gotten sidelined by other issues which come up between now and them. It's always good to remind people of what has gone on during the 4 years. Thanks for the post.

[flpoljunkie]

2. Thanks for posting. Have listened to them at DNC website. Great idea!

Good for the DNC for trying to expose Dubya for the flim-flam artist he is, who has the gall in this ad, entitled ICEBERG from the Republican 527 group "Progress for America," to say, "We have to move ahead with courage and honesty because our children's retirement security is more important than partisan politics."

Flim-flam man, indeed!

[itzamirakul]

3. Other important Tennessee problems...

First, congrats to the MORE ACTIVE DNC under Dean.

Now, while he is pushing his SS scheme to make Wall Street brokers even richer...no one is talking about the fact that some 5000 Somali immigrants have been hired from a "temporary" job agency to provide workers for a Dell Computer plant and for Tyson chicken plants in Tennessee.

A new problem for American workers is not just the "outsourcing" of jobs but also the "Insourcing" of foreign workers who can be brought into our country by companies who do not want to pay American wages. These workers are brought in on guest worker visas and can stay and work as long as the companies say they are needed. They do not have to be paid by American wage standards.

Some of the foreign workers in Tennessee have walked off the job in protest because they have not been given time for evening prayers.

So, what is happening to the American workers that these guest workers have replaced?

HELLLLLLL-OOOOOOOOOOOO............ANYBODY CARE OUT THERE?

[kentuck]

4. Ex-cell-ent !

:)

[Berserker]

5. When corporations

do this type of thing that Dell Computer plant and Tyson chicken does by insourcing cheap labor they should also have to drop the price of their products by the same percentage as they save on labor. Minnesota brought in 5000 Hmong last summer. So it happens all over.

[janx]

6. What an excellent idea! n/t

[Obviousman]

7. Ha Ha!

I love this! Thank goodness Dean is the chairman instead of roemer who would have rolled over and let bush walk all over the state unopposed. Don't give an inch