Posted on 10/30/2004 9:49:35 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
That was the line I expected to hear at the end of the bin Laden video. Was it just me, or did the Osama bin Laden message sound eerily similar to the rhetoric we've been hearing from the Left for months? Makes one wonder who is copying whom. Think you can tell the difference between bin Laden and a Democrat? Test your skill... then click on the link to reveal the source.
"Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you" - source
"Bush misled this country" - source
"Bush has misled the country" - source
"Bush lied" is a standard talking point... which is ironic considering their last candidate's knack for truth-aversion.
"So he transferred the oppression of freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it the Patriot Law to fight terrorism" - source
"The Patriot Act broadens terrorism to include "domestic terrorism" which could potentially be used to target activist groups within the country speaking out against Bush's treacherous deeds." - source
"President Bush rammed the "PATRIOT Act" through Congress with virtually no debate. This law poses an unprecedented threat to Americans' individual freedoms and is a violation of our civil liberties." - source
"Patriot Act erodes civil liberties" is a standard talking point... which is ironic considering their current candidate helped draft it and voted for it.
"He didn't forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times." - source
"This race was stolen from him and from Al Gore and the Democratic Party." - source
"Selected not elected" is a standard talking point... which is ironic considering their never-ending desire to have elections decided by courts.
"Seemed to distract his attention from listening to the girl telling him about her goat butting was more important than paying attention to airplanes butting the towers" - source
"The scene of Bush on the morning of Sept. 11 in Florida reading "My Pet Goat" to second-graders was obtained from the school, which videotaped the president's visit that day. Bush, informed by his chief of staff that a second jetliner has just struck the World Trade Center, remains seated, his eyes widening. Moore superimposes a clock to illustrate how many minutes ticked by." - source
Michael Moore will be glad to see Hamas and Fidel Castro aren't the only peaceful, freedom loving friends of America that enjoy his "documentary".
Apparently the tape in the camera ran out before he could discuss the draft, social security and raising taxes on the wealthiest one percent.
Evil men speak the same language.
Kerry is Osama's man, Bush is mine.
WE KNOW WHY BIN LADEN
SUPPORTS KERRY -
WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?
awesome. Should be a bumper sticker.
Reminds me of the old commercial
Was it REAL (democrats) or was Memorex (bin laden)?
I pray for moral clarity to be upon us all November 2nd.
I wonder if Osama would be interested in seeing Farenhype 911 since he too has fallen victim to the Michael Moore lies.. Gosh when even the terrorists start telling you "There is no Terrorist threat" well I think thats just a little bit scary..
Osama bin Ladin: "Vote for John Kerry, please."
bump
No question, who OBL wants to win!
France, Germany and Russia (the 'coalition of the bribed') agree with those talking points too!!!
I have a feeling inside like I have never had before. I have always been a republican, and have always wanted the other guy to lose, but this time there is more of an urgency for Bush to win. I honestly feel like Kerry is something evil, not just because he is a dem, but because I think he is not really one of us, an American. I feel he truly is a DANGER to us, not because he has no experience or anything, but because of what he stands for, what he really believes in, not what he flip flopped to say he believes in. I guess I feel he truly has an evil heart and that could hurt us big time. WE have to win this election.
"Was it just me, or did the Osama bin Laden message sound eerily similar to the rhetoric we've been hearing from the Left for months?"
It was not just you. Osama, or his look alike, made a really big mistake w/ this video, big time. At the very minimum, it made him look deeply stupid, in the same way heart attack moore looks.
Fortuately Carl Rove sent his deepest covert mole to Hawaii to stump for Bush... Al Gump...
d-mn my pathetic spelling when I'm doing some shoot-from-the-hip typing...here's the
corrected version:
"...maybe Osama is hoping that his religious advocacy group,
Al-Quida, can get IRS tax exemption under a Kerry Administration..."
This may come from the fact that Senator Kerry is so far out on the fringes of the left wing that he truly doesn't seem like a fellow American.
He is rated as one of the most ultra-liberal senators ever with a lifetime rating of 5 by the American Conservative Union on a scale 1-100. He is an "F" from the NRA, and the NRA is not only endorsing President Bush, they are specifically condemning the bid of Senator Kerry.
He is so pink that the reds at the Communist Party USA are giving these words in support of Senator Kerry:
"It was no surprise to me that virtually everyone I met during a recent three-week trip across the Midwest was quick to remind me that this election is the most important in their lifetime. While agreeing that the overriding political task is to defeat Bush and his counterparts in Congress and elect Kerry and a more people-friendly Congress, no one reduced this to simply a contest between the Democratic and Republican parties. This election, they told me, will continue the nearly 24-year struggle against the forces of extreme political reaction who are now entrenched in the White House, Congress and Supreme Court - but with this difference: Nov. 2 could well mark a turning point for better or worse.
A Bush victory would give the ultra-right a green light to ramp up their project to drastically and unilaterally reshape the domestic and international landscape in the interests of U.S. imperialism.
On the other hand, a victory by Kerry and the broad democratic movement that supports him would be a body blow to the extreme right, bring some relief on bread and butter issues, and lift the siege on our nation's constitution.
It also would create a much more favorable political terrain on which the people's movement could struggle for its agenda, beginning with an end to the occupation of Iraq.
Thus the stakes are high, and what adds to the drama is that the electorate is so divided that the outcome will depend on which campaign is able to turn out the biggest vote.
Given these circumstances, what should be the role of left and progressive people?
It is not to parse every word, vet every speech, and scrutinize every statement of Kerry. Nor is it to damn Kerry with faint praise. Rather its main task, as I see it, is to bring into sharper focus the differences in the two lines of policy represented by Kerry and Bush, to delineate the vastly improved political playing field that a Kerry victory would bring, and, above all, to become involved in the grassroots efforts to mobilize the vote.
In so doing, the left will help voters gain an understanding of the bigger picture, extend the practical efforts to reach the electorate, and enhance its connections to the main democratic organizations - connections which are critical to post-election struggles.
Across the country there is a growing anti-Bush feeling, but that alone is not enough. To win requires that millions be convinced that the differences between Bush and Kerry are real, substantial and consequential to their lives on the whole range of issues: Social Security, Medicare, health care, overtime, minimum wage, public education, affirmative action, civil rights, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, gay rights, civil liberties, tax policy, environmental protection, Cuba, preemptive war, and nuclear weapons testing and use.
Senator Kerry isn't just another fellow traveler for the Communist party, he's the real deal.
Senator Kerry has the support of Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-il, Senator Hillary Clinton, and a whole host of other anti-American folks. Voting for John Kerry is the equivalent of voting for Gus Hall in my opinion, and just as alien to a normal American.
I cannot believe that such an ultra-liberal as this person was selected by the Democrats; as Senator Zell Miller so eloquently puts it, this party and its nominee has left him and other normal Americans. Their support for moral degeneracy is simply beyond the pale of anything that any normal person anywhere could or would support.
This is how an American, Democrat or Republican, speaks:
September 1, 2004 Text of speech by Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia as prepared for delivery Wednesday at the Republican National Convention:
Since I last stood in this spot, a whole new generation of the Miller Family has been born: Four great grandchildren.
Along with all the other members of our close-knit family, they are my and Shirley's most precious possessions.
And I know that's how you feel about your family also. Like you, I think of their future, the promises and the perils they will face.
Like you, I believe that the next four years will determine what kind of world they will grow up in.
And like you, I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
In the summer of 1940, I was an 8-year-old boy living in a remote little Appalachian valley. Our country was not yet at war, but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could.
President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America "all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger."
In 1940, Wendell Wilkie was the Republican nominee.
And there is no better example of someone repealing their "private plans" than this good man. He gave Roosevelt the critical support he needed for a peacetime draft, an unpopular idea at the time.
And he made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue.
Shortly before Wilkie died, he told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between "here lies a president" or "here lies one who contributed to saving freedom," he would prefer the latter.
Where are such statesmen today?
Where is the bipartisanship in this country when we need it most?
Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief.
What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
It was Democratic President Harry Truman who pushed the Red Army out of Iran, who came to the aid of Greece when Communists threatened to overthrow it, who stared down the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by flying in supplies and saving the city.
Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But not today.
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.
And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt led an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the lower half of the Korean Peninsula that is free because Dwight Eisenhower commanded an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the half a billion men, women and children who are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from Poland to Siberia, because Ronald Reagan rebuilt a military of liberators, not occupiers.
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.
They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.
It is not their patriotism -- it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.
They were wrong.
They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war.
They were wrong.
And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
Together, Kennedy/Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that is now winning the War on Terror.
Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security but Americans need to know the facts.
The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.
The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.
The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11.
I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against.
This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?
U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.
Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.
Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending.
I want Bush to decide.
John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
That's the most dangerous outsourcing of all. This politician wants to be leader of the free world.
Free for how long?
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
As a war protester, Kerry blamed our military.
As a Senator, he voted to weaken our military. And nothing shows that more sadly and more clearly than his vote this year to deny protective armor for our troops in harms way, far away.
George Bush understands that we need new strategies to meet new threats.
John Kerry wants to re-fight yesterday's war. George Bush believes we have to fight today's war and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. George Bush is committed to providing the kind of forces it takes to root out terrorists.
No matter what spider hole they may hide in or what rock they crawl under.
George Bush wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip.
From John Kerry, they get a "yes-no-maybe" bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends.
I first got to know George Bush when we served as governors together. I admire this man. I am moved by the respect he shows the first lady, his unabashed love for his parents and his daughters, and the fact that he is unashamed of his belief that God is not indifferent to America.
I can identify with someone who has lived that line in "Amazing Grace," "Was blind, but now I see," and I like the fact that he's the same man on Saturday night that he is on Sunday morning.
He is not a slick talker but he is a straight shooter and, where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home, a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel.
The man I trust to protect my most precious possession: my family.
This election will change forever the course of history, and that's not any history. It's our family's history.
The only question is how. The answer lies with each of us. And, like many generations before us, we've got some hard choosing to do.
Right now the world just cannot afford an indecisive America. Fainthearted self-indulgence will put at risk all we care about in this world.
In this hour of danger our President has had the courage to stand up. And this Democrat is proud to stand up with him.
Thank you.
God Bless this great country and God Bless George W. Bush.
My emphasis added in bold.
That's how an American talks. Not the flip-flopping pinko nonsense that spouts from Senator Kerry on a regular basis.
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