Posted on 10/29/2004 12:05:22 PM PDT by Jay777
Just on Fox. Al Jazeera announces Osama Bin Laden tape to Air.
Do you really want to know what motivates this camel turd (OBL)? Do you want to know why he hates the United States? Our people? Our beliefs? Our freedoms of speech and religion? Our way of life? Could you really face the truth if some one told you?
It's all in the Qur'an. Pick it up. Read it.
Then read this: http://www.prophetofdoom.net/books
UBL: If Kerry wins, I get to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom!
I'm tough too!!!!!
Congressman Billybob
I paraphrased that......
Yes....it's all about the damn Goats....
ROFL!!!
Cowards and bigots and unrepentent murderers masquerading as Muslims impress me even less. I'm sick and tired of "let's heap abuse on the Americans". Time to play a new game.
The DUers actually believe that Kerry would mean hot pursuit and instant death to bin Laden, so raghead is scared to death of a Kerry win.
Colmes is way off about this helping Kerry.
There is only one reason this tape might hurt Bush: people would start to agree with OBL that the policy is what matters, not the man.
And, that won't happen. Why? Because Americans associate the policy with the man so strongly the two can't be separated.
OBL is trying to separate them by saying neither Bush nor Kerry will keep you safe, thus trying to get people to forget terrorism and vote other issues....thus voting for Kerry instead of war leader Bush.
But, OBL doesn't realize that in America, the two aren't separated. Especially in this election, the policies of the two candidates are essentially tied to the people themselves. When people choose Bush, they are knowingly choosing a war on terror. They are voting for Bush's policy on terrorism. When people vote for Kerry, it is the same thing; people are voting for his anti-war stance and his law enforcement model of "fighting" terrorism.
And that is magnified 100 times in this election. Before 9/11, some folks would vote based on speaking ability, looks etc. Luckily, now, that is a thing of the past.
OBL is really an extremely smart guy. After all, he did go to college in America...
This tape is his attempt to get people to not trust Bush or Kerry for safety...thus nullifying the effect of Sept. 11 on the voting book....which would no doubt in my mind result in a Kerry landslide victory if this were to occur.
But, OBL miscalculated in his tape. Being educated in America, OBL understood the shallowness of American society prior to 9/11. But, he thinks American society has reverted back to the way it was prior to 9/11. And while it has to some degree; I hardly ever think of 9/11 anymore and live my life like I did prior to that time, it still has subtly changed our society as a whole, even for people far away from the northeast. It has strongly changed people in the NE, but for those farther away, our minds still are on the war on terror. We still sometimes wonder about where OBL is and how the hunt is going. We are on a war footing...even if that footing here and awareness of it at home is only so very slight due to the lack of sacrifice we have had to make during the war. And ultimately, the main thing, is that even in a time like this, when Kerry rants about the economy 24/7, terrorism still is at the very least, almost as important an issue as the economy. Still that serious in the minds of Americans 3 years after 9/11. That is remarkable considering the short memory of us fast-paced Americans, another trait I am sure OBL expected to kick in for this election due to his experience in the States as a college student.
But, the fact of the matter is, while I will not go so far as some and say a Dem will never win another election for POTUS since that is severely overestimating the impact of 9/11 on Americans (in fact, one may win in 2008 if we put up a weak candidate IMO....9/11 won't impact it so much that we can put up crap and still expect to win)......despite the fact that I won't go as far as to say the Dems are screwed as a party in this nation forever...9/11 has clearly changed this country's priorities, and changed them enough to significantly impact the importance of terrorism vs. the pre-Sept. 11 more important issue, the economy. When the issues are about even in a time like this when Kerry rips the economy and scares people day and night, that is a significant GOP advantage.
More importantly, it shows that OBL's observations about American society when he went to college here no longer are true. Americans have not forgotten 9/11 like he likely thought we would...our short memories don't apply to that event and hunting OBL. Americans have not decided terrorism doesn't matter anymore since there have been no more attacks; no doubt OBL expected us to lose interest quickly after Sept. 11 due to our short attention span and normal inability to see things as part of a long haul. But, guess what, hunting OBL down and fighting terror is one area where at least a good enough number of us, including at least enough "swing voters" do see this war as part of the long haul. Thus, the fact that there has not been an attack since 2001 (either due to us foiling one or more or due to OBL trying to take advantage of our short-term memories...) won't matter when it comes to terrorism. Americans, at least enough, realize that there have not been attacks because of our efforts aimed at the long-term, as well as OBL sitting it out while on the run. We are not taking the lack of more attacks as a sign the war is over with us victorious. No, we take it as a sign that for now, OBL is on the run enough that there have not been any attacks, or any agents in the country have not been ordered to give more attacks (perhaps both). That keeps us from feeling secure enough to start forgetting about the terrorist threat.
OBL's tape today is an attempt to take advantage of several major American personality traits.
But, his tape failed will fail to scare people away from Bush.
Why? The America he knew in college is NOT the America of today. While we are not Israel, there still is enough attention paid to security, memories of 9/11, attention to the long-term nature of this war on terrorism, that at the end of the day, the America Bin Laden observed in college is gone, replaced by an America where, yes, even for us worldly, slavish, snobbish Americans, money isn't everything. Security comes first.
And ultimately, this is why OBL's tape today will fail to scare us into electing Kerry. And it will fail miserably.
nonono.... Osama BRUCE Affleck
Barbara Striesand as negotiator for Kerry to UBL:
PEEEOOPLLLLLLLLLLLE, people who need people....
We will not be intimated....
You sure about that?
Colmes has gotten ridiculous lately. I can't stand listening to him anymore. He has the same boring monotone voice that Kerry has. Also it is my believe that if we allow Bin Laden or any other terrorist to scare us then they have won. After all terror means fear
Colmes is a walking corpse.
Carl Cameron on FNC just said, "Kerry, ever cautious," waited to comment till he had a translated transcript.
"Ever cautious" ?????? I'm afraid Carl's been traveling too long with the Kerry campaign - he's losing his objectivity.
Kerry should have just kept quiet....He is too anxious to gain politically from anything......
Great handle....I just had a week where I could say that several times...
Cowboys and Muslims...a classic!
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