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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Covert agents from the French Foriegn Intelligence Service subverted the elections in Ohio and Florida in Bush's favor. I would tell you more but it would put my sources in danger.
Covert agents from the French Foreign Intelligence Service subverted the elections in Ohio and Florida in Bush's favor. I would tell you more but it would put my sources in danger.
i suppose it's been pointed out before but leftists seem to be incapable of taking responsibility for their own shortcomings. That may, in fact, be a defining characteristic.
JFK hasn't gotten it yet...one tiny little detail: He ain't George Bush...he ran on that platform, and it sure didn't work.
'them', not 'us.' One reason of many he lost.
The number of people who did vote for this Kerry person scares the hell out of me!
Why should that tape help Bush unless they thought Kerry was incompetent to fight the war
John Kerry lost because Americans are not the kind of people who will let their decisions be influenced by people lacking credibility and truth in their hearts...
...Osama "Towelhead" Bin La"grim", was just a bonus to John's defeat...
God Bless America, God Bless Christianity, God Bless you!
No, Mr. Kerry, it was YOU who scared them...
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