Nasty negative ad as political race turns sour

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By Mark Pack | Mon 5th March 2012 - 2:50 pm

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First there was the positive ad:

Now there’s this:

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Hat-tip: Thanks to Andreas Kierig for alerting me to the first of these adverts I saw.

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Richard Dean 6th Mar '12 - 1:18am

Is this the “American dream”? A cat for president? The “Leader of the Free World”. The guy who gets to press the red button and boom, no more world!? I guess those Colombians really have oversold their product!
peter 6th Mar '12 - 11:00am

good example of why we should look elsewhere for examples of how to fix our own political system.
Malcolm Todd 6th Mar '12 - 11:16am

You know, I actually didn’t realise at first that they were really talking about a cat. I was willing to believe that some genuine US candidate (Tom Hank?) was willing to make such a vacuous “vote for me to make America great” campaign video. I hope that says more about me than it does about American politics.

Yeah, it probably does.
Neil Bradbury 6th Mar '12 - 1:33pm

Willie the Labrador ran for New Orleans mayor recently and I was very jealous of a friend who was given a campaign t shirt for a previous pooch mayoral candidate. The cat would be an improvement on most of the republican primary candidates
George Kendall 6th Mar '12 - 11:22pm

@Malcolm Todd
You aren’t the only one. I didn’t realise the cat was the candidate until I saw the attack ad, and its reference to catnip. Doh!