USOC asks Bush campaign to pull television ad

USOC asks Bush campaign to pull television ad

In a recent Bush Campaign advertisement:

"In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120," an announcer says. "Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. And this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes."

Bush has as much to do with the supposed growing trend of democracy as does my daily habbit of checking my navel for lint. Of these 80 new democracies I am suspicious as to how many operate like the USA. Not that operating like the USA elections-wise is necessarily a point of aspiration these days...

I find this whole thing just so vile. Honestly if a political party in my country were to co-relate themselves with a non-biased global third party like the Olympics or UN for the purpose of re-election they'd probably lose their official party status or some penalty. But everything seems to go under this "Freedom" banner lately. That if you have enough money you can lie to anybody you'd like as much as you'd like.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not freedom is it? That's legalized mis-information.