A Texas jury on Wednesday found former U. S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay guilty of money laundering in connection with the 2002 elections. DeLay faces a possible sentence of five to 99 years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine on the money-laundering charge, and two to 20 years and a possible $10,000 fine [...]
More than 40 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson used images of a little girl, a daisy and a mushroom cloud to urge people to vote for him, saying the “stakes are too high.”
Now, a group backing the ratification of a new arms treaty with Russia has created a version of Mr. Johnson’s famous “Daisy” ad, using the same images to warn against delay.
The new ad begins as the old one did: with a little girl picking petals off a flower and counting to 10. When she gets there, a menacing voice begins to count down to zero.
“In a world where terrorists seek to destroy everything we hold dear, Russia’s nuclear weapons cannot be left unmonitored,” an announcer says in a grim voice. As he speaks, a mushroom cloud erupts, reflected in one of the little girl’s eyes in grainy, black-and-white video, much as it did in the original ad.
The commercial, which is scheduled to run on cable television in states whose senators will be key to passage of the new treaty, is the work of the American Values Network. A countdown clock on its Web site indicates that it has been 349 days since the U.S. last inspected Russia’s nuclear weapons.
President Obama has started a concerted push to try and get the new treaty passed this year. Republicans, led by Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, have expressed resistance, saying that more time is needed to study the treaty that Mr. Obama negotiated with Russian leaders.
But like the original ad by Mr. Johnson, the group’s new version uses dramatic imagery to make their point. The threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of a third country — like, for example, Iran — is a real one. But no one on either side is suggesting that nuclear war with Russia is likely if passage of the treaty is delayed.
The original 1964 ad is below.
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More than 40 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson used images of a little girl, a daisy and a mushroom cloud to urge people to vote for him, saying the “stakes are too high.”
Now, a group backing the ratification of a new arms treaty with Russia has created a version of Mr. Johnson’s famous “Daisy” ad, using the same images to warn against delay.
The new ad begins as the old one did: with a little girl picking petals off a flower and counting to 10. When she gets there, a menacing voice begins to count down to zero.
“In a world where terrorists seek to destroy everything we hold dear, Russia’s nuclear weapons cannot be left unmonitored,” an announcer says in a grim voice. As he speaks, a mushroom cloud erupts, reflected in one of the little girl’s eyes in grainy, black-and-white video, much as it did in the original ad.
The commercial, which is scheduled to run on cable television in states whose senators will be key to passage of the new treaty, is the work of the American Values Network. A countdown clock on its Web site indicates that it has been 349 days since the U.S. last inspected Russia’s nuclear weapons.
President Obama has started a concerted push to try and get the new treaty passed this year. Republicans, led by Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, have expressed resistance, saying that more time is needed to study the treaty that Mr. Obama negotiated with Russian leaders.
But like the original ad by Mr. Johnson, the group’s new version uses dramatic imagery to make their point. The threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of a third country — like, for example, Iran — is a real one. But no one on either side is suggesting that nuclear war with Russia is likely if passage of the treaty is delayed.
The original 1964 ad is below.
View the original article here
This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.
The high-profile White House meeting Thursday night between President Obama and the newly empowered Republican leadership isn’t going to happen. Rep. John Boehner, the House speaker in waiting, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked for a continuance — which was granted. The White House said the get-together — ostensibly planned to talk about the [...]
There could be plenty of nail-biters as election results are tallied Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, but one race in particular might leave everyone hanging — for weeks. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign against Joe Miller — who defeated her in Alaska’s GOP Senate primary — and Democrat Scott McAdams is what threatens to gum [...]
A federal judge in California has refused to delay her order stopping enforcement of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule, which bars gays from serving openly in the armed forces. The Justice Department is expected to appeal Judge Virginia Phillips denial of the request for a stay to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
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