by user Don Pesci Ads, as everyone knows, are primarily messaging instruments. This is true also of political ads. U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd’s latest ad features his five year old daughter Grace. The title of the ad is – do not blush – “Amazing Grace.” The referential message here is religious, though the text of the message is obscure. In the ad, Dodd says, “I was blessed to become a first time father at age 57,” and he reminds everyone that Grace was born on Sept 13, 2001, two days after the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York. __NOEDITSECTION__