There are a few questions people will ask about these ads eventually...
- Did President Bush's administration have previous intelligence about the impending attacks, and were they in part responsible for not doing everything could to prevent such attacks?
- Did the President do everything in his power to initiate a complete investigation after the attacks?
- Is the President doing enough right now to defend our borders against another major terror attack?
- Is Bush funding our nation's defense (firefighters/policemen/etc...) enough to be able to fully respond to another attack?
I'm not surprised about the ads at all. He
was in power during the terror attacks, and so he can either ignore that responsibility, or use it to his advantage (which may backfire).
If Kerry truly wants to play hardball with Bush, he's going to have to run ads counterattacking the President's ads. For instance, he would run an ad showing how Bush has largely ignored the fallen soldiers of the war he started.