Posted on 11/19/2004 5:05:42 PM PST by ChristianDefender
NEW YORK — John Kerry (search) believes he lost to President Bush because of the video from Usama bin Laden (search) that surfaced just days before the Nov. 2 presidential election.
The Massachusetts senator told FOX News' senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera that he believes he lost because the tape may have scared the American electorate.
Rivera spoke to Kerry on Thursday as the senator and a slew of other notable names — including wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, actors Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman and comedian Chris Tucker — were in a holding room prior to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.
"Tough luck, senator," Rivera said to Kerry, referring to the Democrat's election loss.
Trying to recount Kerry's words verbatim, Rivera said Kerry responded by saying:
"It was that Usama tape — it scared them [the American people]."
Rivera said Kerry said the tape came out too late for his camp to rebut and the Democratic campaign couldn't counteract it in time for the Tuesday election.
"Sen. Kerry clearly believes not only is it the security issue that cost him the election, but very specifically the Usama tapes coming out in the 11th hour," Rivera reported Friday.
Kerry also acknowledged that the security issue in general hurt him in the race, Rivera said.
The broadcast of the tape from the Al Qaeda leader jolted the campaign's closing days, accentuating the terrorism theme with a reminder of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In the tape, aired by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke directly to the American people. He admitted for the first time that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and said the attacks would have been less severe if Bush had been more alert.
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But he also blamed his grassroots supporters when talking to ABC, and blamed the media when talking to his grassroots supporters.
So basically, Kerry's loss is everyone's fault except for his own or President Bush.
He probably said exactly what Whoraldo told him to say.
They're both liberal whores.
1. Stood for nothing; permanent wet finger in the wind
2. Ran on Vietnam, afraid of his Senate record
3. Edwards was horrible choice; should have picked Bob Graham
4. Cuddled up to Hollyweird and Michael Moore
5. Flip-flopped so many times no one could keep count
6. Had a million “plans” but couldn’t enunciate even one
7. Couldn't fool voters on "values" / doesn't have any
8. Couldn't shut Tay-RAY-Zah up
WAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! How many times do I have to call the Wahhhhhmbulance for John Kerry?????????
Funny how people like Kerry always have to fasten on one thing or another to explain their failures. It's never them. Kerry doesn't fall down, it was that damned secret service agent. Kerry doesn't lose elections, it was Osama Bin Laden.
Reality is the wild card, isn't it.
SO inconvenient.
lol!
I posted a similar message to another poster a short while ago and recieved a rather nasty PM from one poster who said had the story not been posted thrice he would never had seen it.
So, with that in mind, we shoud assure that ALL stories are posted on FR at least three times so as to make sure everyone sees them. :-)
If he really believed that, he'd have Edwards suing Osama.
I stand corrected. Thank You
Lots of new folks on FR these days.....
Just a few of the anti-Bush metrosexuals.
It was that damn Karl Rove who got Usama to make that tape!
He cheated me! Why it's an outrage! I have a plan! My plan would work. It's a good plan! If we would have just used my plan everything would be OK! I can't tell you what my plan is because I don't want anyone finding out what I plan to do. But I definately have a plan!
But I thought Kerry lost because those Diebold touch-screens didn't record Democrats' votes--just Republicans.
Kerry lost the Election a long time before the UBL tape came out.
I posted this same story earlier this morning and some clown must have "reported" me because two minutes later it was pulled as a dupicate post,,,this needs to be posted over and over and over again and as I stated above the msm needs to play the tapes of the towers coming down over and over and over again so the left will understand why gigilo lost and 62 million of us agree with Bush!
And yet, they could come out in just a few hours after the new york democrat times made its missing explosives screech (proving, once again, collusion between the demonrats and the demonrat media).
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