The Republican National Committee has put out this new Web ad, borrowing from the Democrats’ infamous “Daisy” attack ad against Barry Goldwater in 1964 — and likening the danger of Guantanamo detainees being brought on to U.S. soil to the 1960s threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union:
Interestingly, this Web ad uses audio of the nuclear explosion from the Daisy ad, but the RNC wasn’t daring enough to incorporate the full visual of a mushroom cloud. The ad also uses audio of Lyndon Johnson saying “These are the stakes!” but cuts off the full statement: “These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God’s children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die.” That kind of aspiration for a world of love isn’t exactly a GOP slogan these days.
The message of original Daisy spot, by the way, was that Goldwater would recklessly get us all killed. So it would logically follow that the message of this ad, of course, is that Obama will recklessly get us all killed.
