[Imbeciles 101] In an irony-of-all-ironies strategy, George Bush employs images of his ideological soulmate, Adolf Hitler, in a bizarre attack on Kerry (?!) (NYTimes)
President Bush's campaign Web site is featuring an advertisement casting Senator John Kerry and his allies as a "coalition of the wild-eyed," blending clips of former Vice President Al Gore, former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont and the filmmaker Michael Moore shouting about Mr. Bush. Interspersed twice are images of a shouting Hitler, drawn from a Web spot that MoveOn.org, the Internet advocacy group that runs anti-Bush advertisements, briefly posted months ago in a contest for advertisements about the president.
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The advertisement ends with upbeat music and the written message "This is not a time for pessimism and rage."

Torture, Financial turmoil, greed, cronyism, environmental collapse, and radical dementia perhaps, but not pessimism.