Posted on 11/19/2004 5:05:42 PM PST by ChristianDefender
NEW YORK — John Kerry (search) believes he lost to President Bush because of the video from Usama bin Laden (search) that surfaced just days before the Nov. 2 presidential election.
The Massachusetts senator told FOX News' senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera that he believes he lost because the tape may have scared the American electorate.
Rivera spoke to Kerry on Thursday as the senator and a slew of other notable names — including wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, actors Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman and comedian Chris Tucker — were in a holding room prior to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.
"Tough luck, senator," Rivera said to Kerry, referring to the Democrat's election loss.
Trying to recount Kerry's words verbatim, Rivera said Kerry responded by saying:
"It was that Usama tape — it scared them [the American people]."
Rivera said Kerry said the tape came out too late for his camp to rebut and the Democratic campaign couldn't counteract it in time for the Tuesday election.
"Sen. Kerry clearly believes not only is it the security issue that cost him the election, but very specifically the Usama tapes coming out in the 11th hour," Rivera reported Friday.
Kerry also acknowledged that the security issue in general hurt him in the race, Rivera said.
The broadcast of the tape from the Al Qaeda leader jolted the campaign's closing days, accentuating the terrorism theme with a reminder of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In the tape, aired by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke directly to the American people. He admitted for the first time that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and said the attacks would have been less severe if Bush had been more alert.
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UBL - Kerry in drag.
PIFFLE...He lost it because of who he is versus who Bush is...
it must also have scared voters into voting Republicans into 4 more senate seats!
Swift Boat Vets, Homosexual Agenda, War on Terror all played to defeat Kerry. I believe Kerry was for the most part Cannon Fodder for many reasons, mainly though it was for Hildebeasts run on 08.
Kerry = putz
It's hard to know whether he actually believes this foolishness or not. However we do know that it was not Osama's tape that defeted him.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Kerry and Gerry. Two frauds if ever there were any.
If he didn't have a thirty-year history of being anti-defense, the UBL tape would have had no effect.
A bin Laden tape threatens the American people and
all Kerry could think about was how to rebutt it?
What was the political response to be?
Thank God he lost.
No, it was you Kerry - You scared them. [the American people].
His concession speech was gracious. Slowly thats getting cancelled out with this sore loser stuff! No class, Lurch! No class!
First time he ever blamed OBL for anything!
Exclusive to whom? Kerry's an idiot. Can you keep a secret? It's an exclusive.
posted just WAY to often today,,,,,not so, this needs to get out there to show people what a buffoon and a coward gigilo really is, I say post it 20 more times day in and day out and while we're at it tell the msm to start running those tapes of the towers coming down - the left needs to be reminded over and over again why gigilo lost and why nearly 62 million of us voted for Bush.
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