Democrats Heed Dole’s Objection and Kill TV Ad

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http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/democrats-heed-doles-objection-and-kill-tv-ad/?hp

At the request of former Senator Bob Dole, Democrats are scrapping plans to broadcast a new commercial that touted Republicans like Mr. Dole speaking in support of overhauling the health-care system.

Mr. Dole lodged a complaint with the White House Saturday night, saying that the new commercial, set to run on national and Washington broadcast stations on Monday but available online on Saturday, was deceptive.

“He believes it is deceptive, it was not authorized, and he asked that it be pulled,” Michael Marshall, a spokesman for Mr. Dole, said Sunday morning. “He was told late last night by the White House that it would not run.”

On Sunday morning, the Democratic National Committee, which produced the advertisement, confirmed that it would not be broadcast.

“We have great respect for Senator Dole and his commitment to reform,” a spokesman said. “As soon as Senator Dole’s concerns were communicated to us, we immediately agreed to pull the ad.”



At Dole's Request, White House Tells DNC to Pull Health Care Reform Ad
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/at-doles-request-white-house-tells-dnc-to-pull-health-care-reform-ad.html

[Gabi Hayes]

1. one of the most cynical, crooked hacks ever to disgrace the senate, and that's

being generous

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story17.html

so crooked, they even have a book about it:

http://www.pww.org/archives96/96-08-31-2.html

[Gabi Hayes]

3. and don't forget his role in Iran/Contra

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost11.html

Lost History: Dole Nearly Cited in Iran-Contra Report

By Robert Parry

Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was so outraged by Sen. Bob Dole's disruption of the Iran-contra criminal cases against senior Reagan-Bush officials that Walsh "briefly considered" adding a chapter to his final report criticizing Dole's tactics.

Walsh detailed Dole's strategy for hindering the prosecutions in Firewall, a book scheduled for publication next year. Walsh, a lifelong Republican, released two chapters now to show voters how Dole lobbied President Bush to pardon former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in 1992. Because of that position, Walsh deemed Dole's recent demands that Clinton eschew pardons for Whitewater defendants a clear case of "Dole's hypocrisy."

The two chapters offer other insights as well into how Bush and Dole engineered the Iran-contra end game to minimize political damage to the Republican Party. Their strategy succeeded, in part, because some leading Democrats and influential members of the Washington news media signaled acceptance of the Weinberger pardon.

Bush pardoned Weinberger and five other Iran-contra figures on Christmas Eve 1992, less than a month before Bush was to leave office. The Weinberger pardon spared Republican superstars, such as Colin Powell and possibly Bush himself, from the embarrassment of testifying and opening themselves to the risk of perjury charges.

[Rex]

2. Bob Dole only cares about himself and his evil legacy!

Bob Dole. Bob Dole!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

5. and his viagra supply, paid for, no doubt, by his generous health insurance.

[Rex]

9. Bob Dole knows a boner when he feels one!

Look at him calling up his peeps for a sexual escapade!

[Autumn]

4. They fucking would,

too bad they don't respect us. Worthless.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. can you imagine their response if the tables were turned?

lookit all the massively deceitful, disgusting ads being put out every day by the insurance companies and their astroturfing surrogates

suck it HARD

you put the crook in crooked

[joeycola]

7. umm. I am surprised that the DNC did not ask permission first.

[MiniMe]

8. The repukes did it to Hillary

The one that said that Hillary would vote for McCain over Obama for a comment she made in the primaries. I believe that she asked for the ad to be pulled, and it wasn't