Posted on 01/31/2005 2:35:05 PM PST by Cornpone
US Democratic Senator John Kerry says a video message from Osama Bin Laden sealed his defeat in a presidential race dominated by the 9/11 attacks. Mr Kerry told NBC TV his opinion poll lead over President George W Bush fell away after the tape was broadcast.
He said national security was the decisive issue in the November 2004 poll, won eventually by President Bush.
Osama Bin Laden's video, shown days before the vote, urged Americans to back neither Mr Bush nor Mr Kerry.
"Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands," said the al-Qaeda figurehead, claiming that the best way for the US to avoid fresh attacks was to call off its "war on terror".
Ratings loss
Mr Kerry said he was proud of his presidential campaign, claiming it had brought "millions of new voters" into the political process.
"Many Republicans say we beat their models by four or five points," he said.
The Bin Laden tape appeared just days before the vote
"I won the youth vote. I won the independent vote. I won the moderate vote."
But, Mr Kerry said, he had faced a difficult task in persuading a country at war "to shift horses in midstream".
"I believe that 9/11 was the central deciding issue in this race," he said.
He said the impact of Bin Laden's message was evident by the dent in his ratings that followed its appearance.
"We were rising in the polls up until the last day when the tape appeared. We flat-lined the day the tape appeared and went down on Monday."
Attack on Rice
Mr Kerry also renewed attacks on President Bush over his handling of the conflict in Iraq.
He argued that a new Iraqi security force was not being forged rapidly enough and that the government's attitude had made the US less safe.
"I believe this administration has set back America's interests and security on a global basis. And over the next few months, I intend to lay out very, very clearly exactly how they've done and how we can do a better job."
Senator Kerry recently attacked Condoleezza Rice in the run-up to her confirmation as Secretary of State.
He told NBC she was the "principal architect, implementer and defender" of a policy that had made the US less secure.
"delivering weapons to the Khmer Rouge".
He actually said that? Pretty hard to spin his way out of that one. No other force in the area he can even pretend to have confused them with.
"I won the youth vote. I won the independent vote. I won the moderate vote."
LOL. Too bad he lost the overall vote.
I don't even believe that he won the youth, independent and moderate votes...........you are a Sorelooserman, jon kerry, begone with your ugly self, we don't care to hear from you ever again.
As they say in sports...SCORBOARD!
And according to CNN Kerry LOST the female vote, LOST the white male vote, the LOST white female vote, LOST the 30-44 vote, LOST the 45-59 vote, LOST the 60 and older vote, the 18-64 vote, LOST the 65 and older vote, LOST the non-union-member vote, LOST the full-time worker vote, LOST the part-time worker vote, LOST the h.s. graduate vote, LOST the some college vote, LOST the college grad vote, LOST the no college degree vote, LOST the Protestant vote, LOST the Catholic vote, LOST the evangelical vote, LOST the vote of those who attend church more than once a week, LOST the vote of those who attend church weekly, LOST the vote of those who attend church monthly, LOST the veterans vote, LOST the vote of married people, LOST the vote of married people with children, LOST the vote of married people with children under 18, LOST the vote of married people with children over 18, LOST the vote of people for whom taxes was the most important issue, LOST the vote of people for whom terrorism was the most important issue, LOST the vote of people for whom moral values was the most important issue...
Errata: Item one should be "LOST the MALE vote."
...I won the youth vote. I won the independent vote. I won the moderate vote....
DAMN. I LOST THE ELECTION THEN I MUST BE A ...LOSER!!!
Here's the link:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
Can't this guy ever take responsibility. Even his supporters think he was a terrible candidate.
He will be rambling like a madman by 2008. Does Al Gore ring a bell ?
So, now the exit polls were false ? You might want to call Mrs. Boxer and give her a heads up before she does something silly.
haha.......goes to prove that fake tanning lotions lead to advanced brain damage
I saw references to this comment and was also astonished. Does anyone have a video clip of this?!
THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN.
He's flip flopping his excuse for loosing...but he'll have a lifetime to make up more. The simply fact that he's a war criminal and a traitor to the US doesn't seem to be enough for him...was for me.
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