Posted on 10/29/2004 11:22:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Clearly, the bin Laden cameo in the 2004 presidential race has the potential to cut both ways. Weighing in Bush's favor is that Americans have typically rallied around the president when they have felt threatened, and bin Laden's tape is menacing. Also, the fact that bin Laden was making his presence known through a videotape rather than through a Madrid-style attack could be seen as evidence that Bush had done his job of protecting the public.
.....This time, it was Kerry's side urging television networks to be cautious in playing the tape.
"If you've got Osama back on the scene talking about 9/11 but not making an attack, it could be the best of both worlds" for Bush, said Republican strategist Jeff Bell. "It's good for Bush, the fact that [bin Laden] hasn't been able to attack, except for verbally."
Kerry aides appeared visibly alarmed aboard the candidate's plane as they planned a response to the tape's airing. One prominent Democrat speculated that for swing voters who have not followed the election closely, bin Laden's reappearance may well boost Bush.
.... the bin Laden appearance may reinforce some of Kerry's arguments. Bin Laden practically quoted Kerry when he said "Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you," and he seemed to be familiar with the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and its mockery of Bush for reading "My Pet Goat" with children while the World Trade Center towers burned....
....Mike McCurry appeared unusually somber as he told reporters that the candidate would proceed with the campaign as if the tape had not appeared. "It's very important for us to move forward. ...
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It also may have the effect of keeping Kerry voters home.
Ha ha ha....
Well, it hit me in the gut so I just imagined what it did for the "undecideds" and soft Kerry supporters.
I'd like to throw up this possibility.
Everyone in America (except many Dems) are security conscious.
But doesn't the sudden appearance of OBL validate Kerry's claim that the war in Iraq was an un-necessary diversion away from the hunt for OBL?
I wondering if the appearance of OBL might make some voters re-think voting for Bush.
Just a possibility I'm throwing out...
Opinions anyone?
The best thing of all would be, however, a dead Osama served up sometime this weekend....I can dream and pray....
I didn't react emotionaly,but logically and so I laughed at OBL using Michael Moore's script.The tape is pathetic and OBL comes off looking like a puppet,mouthing words not his own.
Yeah...clearly. Too bad - with flippy's multiple positions on everything - both of those ways are against him.
The wolves are at the door again, Mr. Kerry.
Now wacha gonna do?
KING: A huge turnout?CRONKITE: Oh, yes, I do. I think so. The only thing that could damage the turnout would be the threats that might be implied, as many of the new registrees are challenged as to their various things. Their spelling of their name and the state where they really come from, whether they're immigrants or not, do they have passports, all that kind of thing. If they are challenged at the polls, as they line up to go into the polls, they may fear having to answer all those questions. Particularly if they do have anything wrong about them and shouldn't vote.
I agree...my first thought.
How does one spin a tacit endorsement from OBL?
OBL is scared of Bush...of that there is no doubt.
Otherwise, instead of this tape crap, he'd be doing a Spain atrocity.
Course...he will in good time I fear.
We are going to have to kill a lot more of the religion of pieces than we yet realize or are willing to accept.
Beslan demonstrated that all too well.
I would disagree, Steve. This because of OBL's mindset of the Islamic nation or ummah, as well as Saddam's connections with Jihad training programs at Salman Pak, his known WMD programs, and his support of the Palestinian suicide bombers. These four points are perhaps the most salient in the totality of regional, cultural, historical, clannish, and religious interconnections of the terrorist threat.
We should remember President Jefferson and the "Barbary Pirates" of the Islamic Caliphate, the atrocities of the pre-Crusade Jihads, and the Islamo-Nazi connections. Behold: this war is bigger than OBL.
That thought crossed my mind.
I envisioned bin Laden's head on a pike.
Now that fits in perfectly with the democrat GOTV strategy.
Nice.
LOL!!!
"But doesn't the sudden appearance of OBL validate Kerry's claim that the war in Iraq was an un-necessary diversion away from the hunt for OBL? "
No way! 75% of al quaeda is in jail now because of the invasion of Iraq! Plus that loser saddam is rotting in jail. I think there were definitely WMD's and they were moved before we got there, anyone that believes they were not there needs their brain examined.
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