Neil Fein's Blog

This just popped up in my inbox:

From: "Democratic Party" (address removed)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:43:30 -0500
To: (address removed)
Subject: Take Action: George W. Bush's outrageous Hitler ad

Take Action: Bush Ad Puts Hitler Alongside John Kerry

It isn't often that we'd ask you to go to George W. Bush's campaign website. But every single American should go to georgewbush.com immediately and watch the disgusting ad the Bush/Cheney campaign has featured on the front page.

Titled "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party," the ad features Adolf Hitler alongside Democrats, including John Kerry. President Bush's campaign has relied on negative attacks against Kerry, but this is a new low.

We've always said the Bush campaign would do anything to win, but even we are shocked that they've sunk this low. It's bizarre. It's outrageous. And we're not going to stand for it.

If President Bush has any decency at all, he'll remove this hateful ad from his website immediately.

Sign the Petition
Take action today and sign our petition to Bush demanding that he repudiate this disgusting ad putting Hitler alongside Democrats and remove it from his website.

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And please make sure to forward this urgent action alert on to your friends and tell them to join you in this fight!

Keep in mind, W himself has recently been compared to Hitler by Germany's government, the Russian press, and activists in the US itself. Looks like his people took the idea and ran with it.

I headed on over to the site, and the ad isn't linked from the front page; has it been pulled? I don't think Bush should be forced or coerced to pull this, but it certainly goes beyond the boundaries of good taste. Of course, good taste has very little to do with good ol' U.S. of A. politics.