THAT'S CLASSY:

The Partido Popular (PP) has said that it will be taking the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC) [Socialist Party of Catalonia] to court over a pre-statute referendum campaign theme they are using - ‘El PP utilizará tu no contra Cataluña’ (the PP will use your no against Catalonia) - because they feel it is ‘converting the PP into an enemy of Catalonia.’

After hearing over and over that Bad Bush stiffles dissent by wrapping himself around the flag, accusing his critics of being unpatriotic yada yada, this is, well, fun.

Just to make things clear: this is not a mere attack ad like the ones often present in American campaigns: it's the main, and shall we say, single slogan. It goes much further than being one TV ad, and it's not paid by a 527-like organization: it's by the party itself. Funniest of all was hearing the campaign manager on the radio this morning say that in Spain we're shocked about attack ads, but it's normal outside the country; we only have to remember, he said, Bush ads attacking Kerry. So this means that for Catalan socialists Bush is their role model? Go figure.

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