{"id":912,"date":"2003-11-21T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-counterassault-begins\/"},"modified":"2003-11-21T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2003-11-21T19:10:17","slug":"the-counterassault-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-counterassault-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Counterassault Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"G.O.P. to Run an Ad for Bush on Terror Issue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/21\/politics\/campaigns\/21REPU.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">G.O.P. to Run an Ad for Bush on Terror Issue<\/a> By JIM RUTENBERG, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>[A] new commercial gives the first hint of the themes Mr. Bush&#8217;s campaign is likely to press in its early days. It shows Mr. Bush, during the last State of the Union address, warning of continued threats to the nation: &#8221;Our war against terror is a contest of will, in which perseverance is power,&#8221; he says after the screen flashes the words, <b>&#8221;Some are now attacking the president <i>for attacking the terrorists<\/i>.<\/b>&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The 30-second advertisement gives the first sampling of the powerful array of images Mr. Bush&#8217;s campaign team will have at its disposal when it begins what is expected to be a formidable advertising campaign.<\/p>\n<p>With somber strings playing in the background, the commercial flashes the words &#8220;Strong and Principled Leadership&#8221; before cutting to Mr. Bush standing before members of Congress. Intended to call out the Democrats for their opposition to Mr. Bush&#8217;s military strategy of pre-emptively striking those who pose threats to the nation, the screen flashes &#8220;<b>Some call for us to <i>retreat<\/i>, putting our national security in the hands of others<\/b>,&#8221; then urges viewers to tell Congress &#8220;to support the president&#8217;s policy of pre-emptive self defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.O.P. to Run an Ad for Bush on Terror Issue By JIM RUTENBERG, NYTimes [A] new commercial gives the first hint of the themes Mr. Bush&#8217;s campaign is likely to press in its early days. It shows Mr. Bush, during the last State of the Union address, warning of continued threats to the nation: &#8221;Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-counterassault-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Counterassault Begins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}