Posted on 10/31/2004 6:42:49 AM PST by Kaslin
John Kerry said Sunday that he's "outraged" that anyone would think the re-emergence of Osama bin Laden on a terror video released Friday may hurt his chances in next Tuesday's election.
"I'm outraged that he has appeared," Kerry told ABC News anchor Peter Jennings. "I'm outraged that he inserts himself in any kind of way into the electoral process of America."
Asked about comments from both his campaign and team Bush suggesting that the bin Laden tape gives the president a big boost in the closing days of the campaign, Kerry told Jennings, "I think it's unfortunate that anybody puts Osama bin Laden into any political context in the United States' election." When reminded that his surrogates were the first to address the bin Laden tape in a political context, Kerry said, "Well, I don't want them doing that. I think that's wrong. I think that every American is outraged at the sight of Osama bin Laden, and anything that he says about the American electoral process."
In fact, minutes after al Jazeera aired the terror tape, Kerry himself politicized the news, saying that bin Laden's continued survival was the result of Bush "outsourcing" the hunt for the terror chief in December 2001.
He's always outraged by the truth.
Mainly he's just jealous OBL can use DNC talking points better than he can.
Notice that kerry is not "outraged" that bin Ladin murdered 3,000 innocent Americans. He is "outraged" that bin Ladin may have lessened kerry's chances of winning the election. How dare he?
OBL says his terror operation has been hurt by the unrelenting US military manhunt for him and his cohorts.
OBL stating that the lack of violence at the Afghan elections put a crimp in his plans.
Why would the media withhold this part of the tape? I understand why the MSM would do so, but FOX????????
'He'll still be in the Senate.'
But hopefully, he will be shunned and humbled, like Gore was...
and in 2006...? maybe we can vote him out for good.
Keep dreaming.
Unfortunately, I have the feeling this guy would not go quietly into the night.
He will be the voice of the democratic party(in his opinion) until 2006 when he will be defeated as Senator.
Don't ya know anything about history? Heck, our Founding Fathers during our Revolutionary War had a lot of out-sourced help too, you old dunderhead.
I've heard you are even willing to out-source the USA to the UN.
John Kerry you are one misguided, misinformed, miscreant, miserable democrat candidate we've seen since Bill Clinton.
My hopes are that we will be saying a hearty bye-bye Kerry next Wednesday and send you back to Mama Bucks Teresa's many estates.
And furthermore, you are sounding more like WC Fields on a binge.
kerrys outraged that osama stole some of his and michael moores campaign lines.
Amen. I also can't imagine having to listen to that pathetic monotone voice for 4 years. What a boring communistic borg kerry is.
That this election is close is proof that Evan Thomas of NewsWEAK was right. The media is worth 15 points to Kerry.
He'll still be in the Senate.
Maybe we can do something about that too.
Exactly.
But Gore lost even his home state of Tennessee and Bill Clinton's home state of Arkansas. Kerry will not only win in Massachusetts, he will have his highest margin in the country there.
Considering their other senator is a murderer, I don't have much fait that the voters of MA will get rid of him.
Lemme get this striaght....
osama getting into our elections is bad...but the guardian and the UN is a-ok!!
"er, yes...well, that's before I realized it was going to work against me."
Only problem is that it will probably help Bush, which I don't think is what he intended. He would probably prefer the poodle's French model of dealing with terrorists, which is to say, talk and about it and then surrender.
I don't think obl "gets" America (e.g. he thought the wtc was far more important symbolically than it was).
"I think it's unfortunate that anybody except the Liberal Left and John Kerry put Osama bin Laden into any political context in the United States' election."
I'm still waiting for him to be outraged about George Soros spending millions of dollars and manipulating oil futures to interfere with the election.
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