Posted on 09/16/2002 6:10:57 AM PDT by truthandlife
Democratic Party insiders are said to be furious over published reports identifying the five al Qaeda cell members arrested over the weekend in Lackawanna, New York as registered Democrats.
Sunday's Buffalo News initially revealed the inconvenient detail, noting first that "members of Lackawanna's Yemeni community describe the five arrested men as 'all-American.'"
"They include a telemarketer, a used car salesman and a former high school soccer star who was named friendliest in his class. Four are married, and three have children. All are registered voters Democrats," announced USA Today on Monday, picking up the News report.
News of the al Qaeda cell's political affiliation can only exacerbate the party's already growing image as being soft on terrorism. Monday morning, for instance, noting that the Lackawanna five will be unable to go to the polls in the future, WABC Radio's Curtis Sliwa joked, "There's five less votes for Hillary Clinton."
Some Republicans see the "Al Qaeda were Democrats" reports as poetic justice.
Over the years, Democratic Party spinmeisters and their liberal media friends have repeatedly attempted to make hay over the political ties of domestic terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, whom President Clinton once tried to tie to conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh.
ah HA!! So THAT'S why they banned me three times before I got disgusted and quit subscribing with different screen names!! (the admin sent me a very nice email last week...reactivating my first screen name at the DU. I havn't decided whether I'll bother posting there again. Hopeless cause.)
Now, there's a loaded question. Go ahead, I'll let you go first.....
....does it have anything to do with knee pads?...
Don't get me started!LOL!
Let's just say it could have something to do with that.
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Cynthia McKinney: Remarks at the CBC Weekend GA Reception
Man oh man. Talk about a steely eyed stare. Tell me this President isn't serious about the war on terror.
Saw parts of his speech today and he was great on Ramzi BinAlshibh. One by one.
Saw part of Rummy's press briefing and it too was great. He hammered an idiot who tried to parrot the RATS line of the terror war being bogged down.
Da$$hole your al Qaeda cRat senators up for relection this November are OUT OF HERE IN 2003!
Me either. I try to be rational and polite (so as not to OFFEND anyone)
little tommy goes from Majority Leader to MINORITY PLEADER.
I wonder if the Rats can walk down the street with their heads hung in shame while eating crow at the same time.
They are probably mad because the arrest of these people only goes to prove that the terrorist 'within' threat is real. I think the reason the Dems are dragging their feet and trying to hold off voting on Iraq until after the elections is because THEN they can make the economy, the voting issue, by downgrading the terrorist threat.
The economy is the only issue right now that they have to work with, and the economy isn't Bush's fault. A lot of the economy problem traces right back to 9/11. But they have to connect it to something else, like Enron et all.
They want to distract us from the real issue of terrorism. The more of these thugs that are caught, makes it more important to vote sooner. I think the dems are crapping their pants that they may not be able to hold a vote off until after the elections.
The CEO/corporate scandals date back to 1998 in many cases.
The Rats can bring up the economy as an issue, but they have to be careful of the parameters of such a discussion.
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