Posted on 10/29/2004 4:27:09 PM PDT by wolfeast1
Watching CNN and MSNBC the commentators look depressed when talking about this Bib Laden tape. Chris Mathews looks like he wants to hide under the table when they say how this is bad for Kerry
Don't worry, I understand all too well what you're saying.
But the way I see it, they were down to picking necrotic scabs to bleed one last time this election.
I mean, think about it ... it's not just the way they pumped up Kerry to yank the chains of vets or brought Roe v. Wade back for another round (even though last election the President's Mom, even, was floating the idea of pulling up the pro-life plank entirely). What gets me -- and you know what's coming -- is the way they even made it sound like Kerry was "for" ESCR and Bush (who gets personal credit for legitimizing with taxpayer funds the process!) was against it!!
How soon we forget the text of his first televised address to the nation.
Bottom line ... like I said, I don't have anyone to vote "FOR" in this election and maybe it's wrong of me to go the "strict constitutionalist" route and reach back to the Founding Fathers to write my note of Excused Absence on Election Day ... but the politics isn't what set me off on this thread.
What set me off on this thread is the blow to my solar plexus that was GLEE over this tape's threats in any way "playing into our hands" just because a couple of the most despicable of the Actors who masqerade as journalists these days "look sad" about it.
It's a gut-wrenching thing, Cold Heat. Never should a people be so under the gun or desperate or ... I don't know how best to put it ... but there's just something Wrong about thinking this is a "good" thing for even a moment.
It's like having your folks die in a plane crash and figuring they'd be happy that -- what with the Pain and Suffering and all -- they made you Millionaires with their last ten seconds of life on earth.
Some things just can't and should never be rationalized as Good else we have no objective reality anymore.
If pragmatism hadn't existed -- and it didn't -- they have had to invent it -- and they did -- so that the West could destroy itself from within.
Mark my words.
It makes me 5'15"
I must be the only one with too much tinfoil in my diet. OBL likes to warn before he strikes, I very much expect his people to strike within the next 3 days.
Sorry if I'm stepping on another's post and there might even
be a separate thread on this topic but on O'riled-up the
guest was analyst Larry Sabato. O'riled-up suggested that
OBL's tape might have been designed to help elect Bush in
order to increase the ranks of terrorists. Sabato enthus-
iastically agreed.
I don't buy it, do you?
Ain't that the truth!
When they're genuinely smiling I get scared.
"I very much expect his people to strike within the next 3 days."
---I believe it's coming too I'm just not sure it will be in the next few days(I could be wrong).
It does strike me as rather odd that OBL would emerge from deep cover in order to endorse John Kerry. He knows the vast majority of Americans hate him. Moreover, he didn't even threaten to blow anything up (based on what I heard on the radio). What's his (or his masters) game...? This one deserves some serious thought.
What did the little boy say?
I haven't watched any news or cable news for the past 2 weeks, but tuned in for a couple minutes just a few minutes ago
Paula Zahn spinning that the OBL tape is bad news for Bush!
I'm nut sure I understand all that you are saying, but I think I get your point about seeing the OBL tape as a 'good thing'. It is important, however, to keep in mind that sometimes it takes an ugly wake-up call to remind us of reality - like a near-miss in the car that reminds us to make sure we fasten our seat belt. Unfortuntately, the MSM have chosen to put 'winning' way above what is best for our country and it is understandable that those who are truly concerned about the future would be relieved (yes, even happy) to get an unintended assist from the dregs that is OBL. Hope this helps.
I could have gone a lifetime without that mental image. Thanks.
How nice of OBL to drop by for halloween...I hope we can give him a nice treat.
Ron Reagan Jr is now on Buchanan's show again saying people shouldn't change their vote based on this tape.
Meantime, Walter Cronkite is on CNN almost claiming that Karl Rove set this tape up. Cronkite also says the election won't be decided until March, with all the legal challenges that will be coming.
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