Disclaimer: this ad was produced by the Keep America From Dying Coalition and paid for by Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon.

give me a BREAK. This whole thing is the biggest fairytale ive ever seen...

But really the prospect of having to listen to 10 more months of fear mongering makes me sick. Why cant the democrats run a tough add about how republicans are trampling on the constitution or point out that as franklin said "Those who would give up essential Libertys to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"

are principles are the most important thing we have.

The problem with the advertising play is the GOP isn't going to ahve the money to pull it off effectively.

It seems to imply that the administration is guided in its actions by law. Interesting.

Why would they allow a reporter to talk about warrant less wiretaps right in the piece? If they just talked about the protect America act, they might make it seem scary, but when a journalist is right up there talking about warrantless wire taps, it really undermines their case.

LOL. A parody of this is needed. Forget policy or issue discussions. A humorous and deeply ironic and scathing response is needed.

Someonw needs to use the exact same music that is used in the video but edit in the Republicans walking out (or as I should say walking in lock step) and moving together compared to the armies and people of the Nazi's who used propaganda to curry national sentiment.
Come on is there any doubt that the Republicans in many cases would rather suppress honest discourse even within their own party to show that they are all in agreement. Their methods are quite fascistic, whatever one says they all say. They do not like differences, they like unity from the top down and anybody who doesn't agree with them must be a liberal, conspiracy theorist, socialist, terrorist sympathizer etc. You better not vote democratic or you will die mentality is a disgrace to Americans, its a disgrace to humanity, and its a disgrace to freedom.

As usual, the Republicans have conveniently ignored the fact that the NSA program was (and probably still is)collecting virtually all the internet traffic going through the US -- with the illegal assistance of the telecoms they now want to immunize for whatever exactly they did. See and would help.

It is difficult to understand how the NSA could possibly find any terrorist communications in that much data; it's like looking for a needle in a Mt. Everest size pile of hay. One can only wonder how many millions of dollars the government has wasted on this effort.

Of course, it could be that all those e mails from deceased Nigerian dictators' relatives and ads for "performance enhancing" products are part of a diabolical two prong terrorist plot. Prong one is to cripple the web by burdening it with spam; prong two is to have a way to communicate about upcoming attacks in code. (Ever wonder about all those strange misspellings of Viagra?) Plus, the terrorists get the added benefit of funding their program and weakening the US economy by defrauding gullible Americans.

The Democrats have enough material here to come up with a really entertaining ad.

By the way, in a recent issue of a magazine put out by the Cato Foundation (not exactly a far left think tank) I read that in a typical year, more Americans die from peanuts than from terrorism, and even in 2001, more died from the flu than terrorism. Also, it is worth noting that the number of children killed by gun violence in the US every year is as high as the number of people killed on 9/11. It really is time for Americans to have leaders who help us put the dangers in the "dangerous" world into some reasonable perspective, instead of using fear tactics for political advantage.

But wait.

According to Obama, the Dems are supposed to unite with the Republicans to change Washington.

Right?