> ... there is a plan for an October Surprise to
> embarass the Bush administration by a making a
> false claim that Osama has been captured and
> then proving that it is the wrong man ...
With all the false Waldo sightings over the last
3 years, that will be a tough sell.
And I don't see the White House having any desire,
even if OBL turns up, to say anything about it
until 03 Nov. The arguments to keep him "undead"
are just too compelling.
I hadn't thought of the benefits to keeping Osama undead. It's a good point.
I read the DUers are also working on using Valerie Plame as an October Surprise. They're organizing a campaign to contact the media, demanding that they expose Karl Rove as covering up the source of the Plame outing.
Besides, as long as he remains "undead" as opposed to "dead", he'll be less likely to vote for Kerry.