The FBI have received a tip that al Qaeda terrorists may be planning an attack on shopping malls in Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois, in the upcoming holiday season. In response to this tip, Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo created an ad depicting a terrorist deserting a backpack with a bomb inside a mall. This ad is also revealing Tancredo's stance on illegal immigration. However, this tip may not even be credible. Are we being exploited by the media? Was this ad created to prepare American citizens? Is Tancredo trying to instill fear to gain more votes?
To view the ad, go to: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/13/tancredo.ads/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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This is just fearmongering. Tancredo is blowing the actual threat of a terrorist attack on a mall way out of proportion in order to scare people. the people who he succeeds in scaring will want a way to assuage their fears, and will therefore vote for tancredo because they think he can help protect them. this is just a tactic used by tancredo not to protect Americans, but to trick them into voting for him.
I agree with greg that i think he might be using this to get votes, but you can never be to safe. even if this source isnt credible you still have to listen to it because what if it did happen and you knew about it, you would of cost people there lives just because you didnt act on it.
I don't think that Tancredo is necessarily blowing the probability of a terrorist attack out of proportion...there is always a chance that something could happen--i mean look at September 11th. Even so, I do think that the ad is meant to breed fear as Greg and Robbie said. Such fear really does stir the American people and gives Tancredo a lot of attention in his campaign.
But all in all, claiming that bombing Islamic sights could decrease terrorist attacks..not a good move. I only worry that his campaign isn't about a battle on terrorism but instead a war on the nation of Islam.
And although I hope it doesn't happen, what if by some chance there was a terrorist attack?
I think that this ad was inapropriate to run and this guy was just trying to get votes. I agree with Greg, I think that he is fearmongering with this ad and personally that offends me. Our presidential candidates should not exploit the lingering fears of our country; he or she should concentrate on building this country up.
When looking at his web site:
http://teamtancredo.org/home/
I noticed that the ad was placed on the home page with the caption "Bold Enough To Say It." But what is he really trying to achieve by this ad? I personally think that he is simply running the ad to gain votes from the public, as well as to get his immigration reform ideas out to the voters. He wants much stricter immigration laws, but what will that do to our economy? Furthermore, our nation was founded on the idea of acceptance, and how would we look if we simply closed our boarders to all immigrants. I think that this ad was exaggerating and trying to play off the fear Americans have been feeling ever since 9/11. That, however, isn't fair to the public.
WOW.. Tom Tancredo.. He sounds like a terrible person. I think he's just doing this to get attention and try to save his poorly performing campaign and popularity. He's just a terrible/evil person who hates immigrants. I'm definitely not going to vote for him if he wins the Republican primary.
I don't think he's just trying to get votes, 'cause if he does, he would need a lot to even be considered as more popular. According to 2008 Polls for President, Tom Tancredo currently has 1% to 3% of the Republican votes. In fact, he's not even listed in some of the polls. I think that he is just "Bold Enough to Say It." It seems unlikely that he would win the presidential nominee, and so he might just be bringing more awareness to and potential situations from terrorist attacks.
"It seems unlikely that he would win the presidential nominee, and so he might just be bringing more awareness to and highlighting potential situations from terrorist attacks.
[Correction to that last sentence above.]
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