What a strange, strange image for a Bush/Cheney ad

[Bucky]

This is what internet conservatives are using to promote Bush's election this year. Look at this image and check out the slogan.

http://images.blogads.com/kpioibxljotsjhiuxjohofxtdpn/rightwingnews/3137981/thumb?rev=rev_0

It's kinda creepy.

[Webster Green]

1. Very creepy!

Just like smirky and the big dick.

[LTR]

2. No kidding!

I guess so long as a candidate doesn't talk about raising taxes (ala Mondale) it's all good.

What is our world coming to?

My guess is the logo was designed by someone who never served in the military.

[graham67]

3. Is that a skull?

:wtf:

[jean]

7. that's my question??? Looks like Skeletor!

[GiovanniC]

4. Peace Isn't Pretty?

What the Cheney does that mean?

[Mari333]

5. Time again to bring out the CHICKENHAWK DATABASE

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=list&category=%20NEWS%3B%20Chickenhawks




Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience came in spite of ample opportunity in that person’s past

[Ann Arbor Dem]

11. Thanks for the link! n/t

[barbaraann]

6. Peace isn't pretty??!!??

Oh, my god.

[tom_paine]

8. Not creepy. Nazi Death's Head. The originla SS and Brownshirts

wore them, too.

Entirely unremarkable.

[bobja]

13. Exactly my first thought! Nazi SS!

[displacedtexan]

9. Why am I only seeing code?

Both links.

I want to see! I want to see!

[Kid_A]

14. Here it is...

http://images.blogads.com/kpioibxljotsjhiuxjohofxtdpn/rightwingnews/3137981/thumb?rev=rev_0

Probably not made by the campaign, but still typical of the attitude of a lot of Bush supporters.

edit: I thought the image itself would show up, but some down the page has it.

[Lerkfish]

10. I don't get anything when I click...

just a bunch of gobbleygook text.

anyone care to describe the image?

thanks.

[graham67]

12. In the center

In b&w is drawing of a soldier with a skull instead of a head, carrying some sort of gun. Circling the drawing in color are the words "Freedom isn't Free" "Peace Isn't Pretty", and flames surround the words. At the bottom is Bush/Cheney 04 with an American flag.


Here's the image:

[graham67]

15. The link to buy...

leads here:

http://www.shopmetrospy.com/cgi-bin/sc-v3/catprod.pl?client=shopmetrospy&catid=51

[Tellurian]

20. Looks like: The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...is Death!

Bush and Cheney bring Death.

....polluting our air

....polluting our water

....polluting our earth

....tainting our food supply with pesticides

nevermind the tens of thousands of civilians and
military killed in the name of Peace and Religion..

[Goldmund]

16. Is this a parody???

I'd swear that a liberal made that.

[graham67]

18. No, it certainly isn't

Follow the source to

http://www.shopmetrospy.com

Scroll down and read.

[Goldmund]

21. Wow

These people are a parody man...

[Stephanie]

17. Here's what DU raised this week in the NY Post auction:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1944963

[ihaveaquestion]

19. VERY Scary

Obviously not an official image, but if this is what their supporters are going to wear, how long before something similar IS officially used? If Kerry isn't elected, it won't be long at all!

This really scares me. I've been thinking for a couple of years that this group could lead the US to American facism. It's hard not to.

And I just saw 1984 last night - creepy!

[jokerman93]

22. They make tons of those images

...for t-shirts that young soldiers and marines buy and wear on military bases all over the country.

In our team room at 1/1 SFGA in Okinawa, we had a big poster like that that must have been thirty years old. Said something like:

"I'm not the killer man. I'm the killer man's son. I'll do the killing 'till the killer man comes."

That grim militaristic aesthetic has been with our military for quite some time, at least since Vietnam. This is an appeal to the military vote.

It's hopelessly adolescent and desperate, if you ask me.

These guys are going down.

[enough]

23. Reminds me of the "terrorist -hunting license"

sticker saw yesterday on the window of an SUV. Boy these guys are REALLY REAL men.

[troublemaker]

24. LOL Peace=War... "Peace isn't Pretty"