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October 30, 2004

Curb Your Ire

Yesterday, Jeff Fecke of Blogomodleft reacted with a bit of ire over my notion that Bin Laden has endorsed, and is rooting for, John Kerry:

You are free to argue that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for Osama.

But you're just this side of evil for doing it.

Well, maybe - if that were remotely what I was doing. Fortunately, Bin Laden has long missed the filing deadline for any US office.

No, Jeff missed the point. If he didn't, he wouldn't be a leftyblogger (kid=must). I was commenting on Bin Laden's desire to see Kerry in the White House. It's something conservatives have been prodding the left with for months. It's something that leftybloggers have reacted bitterly over. And it's pretty much the only rational conclusion you can draw from Bin Laden's statement.

The The Powerguys go further still.

Rocket Man notes how Bin Laden's statement was...

...pure Michael Moore. Obviously bin Laden has seen Fahrenheit 9/11, or at least heard about it from other terrorists who have seen it. Just as obviously, they approve of Moore's movie.

Do you suppose there are any Democrats honest enough to be embarrassed that Osama bin Laden has enthusiastically adopted their campaign themes?

Having read a stack of leftyblogs today, the answer is no, although plenty of them are angry that any of us would suggest such a thing.

Note to Democrats: Prove us wrong.

Posted by Mitch at October 30, 2004 08:16 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Osama couldn't be happier with Bush in the White House. Bush did about the stupidest thing a President could do - get us involved in an unrelated quagmire in Iraq - and completely took his eyes off the ball. Osama has Bush to thank for his resurgence.

Posted by: InsultComicDog at October 30, 2004 10:35 AM

How dare you chickenhawks question the patriotism of John Kerry!!!11!!111 Tora Bora! Halliburton!!11!

Posted by: Mark Allen at October 30, 2004 04:25 PM

Oh contraire... any registered voter can simply VOUCH for Osama and let him vote. Unreal how lame MN's voter registration laws are. I thought Wisconsin's was bad.

Posted by: Troll at October 30, 2004 05:53 PM

I keep seeing democrat talking heads on the boob-tube speaking of their "get out the vote campaign." Locally, that has been uncovered as the "get out the names of people (even dead ones) who you can use to vote for your candidate!" Another interesting local one was the "election volunteers" who kept telling old people where they needed to place their marks--you guessed it Kerry/Edwards. At least several seniors complained, but nothing was done due to 'worker shortage!' It should be a fun next couple of months!

Posted by: fingers at October 30, 2004 06:10 PM

InsultComicDog -- Eye off the ball? Does this mean that if we get Osama everything is fine? Quagmire? After 18 months? Please read a history book. Any one will do.
The entire world of fundamentalist Islam has been trying to tell us for more than 25 years that we are at war. We just didn't listen, and there are those (John Kerry) that still won't listen.
You can have the "Osama prefers..." argument all day long, and miss the point entirely.
You could say Osama prefers Bush, because at least Bush finally understands that this is a global war to the death, which is what Osama wants.
Or you could (with a great deal more validity) say that Osama prefers Kerry, because he can operate a lot more effectively when the west views the war as a police operation directed at an individual like him instead of his state sponsors and weapons sources. As your basic, garden variety meglomaniacal psychopath Osama would like Kerry because Kerry would make him the focus of everything. I don't see how someone could read the transcript of his comments without seeing his open support for Kerry.
But both arguments and the whole discussion of bin Laden miss the point: Namely, that Osama himself is not the point. If Osama's dead there's someone else to take his place.
If Kerry had been president through these last 4 years, 1) we'd still be searching for Osama (his outsourcing Tora Bora argument is a crock, as even he knows), 2) we'd still be watching the UN muddle through in Iraq, 3) we'd still be waiting for Iraqi weapons to be used against us, 4) Qaddafi would still be in the WMD business, 5) Pakistan and Khan would still be in the Nukes R Us business, 6) I personally believe that he wouldn't have gone into Afghanistan in force because he would have believed all of the warnings about quagmires and Afghan winters... feeling safer yet?

Posted by: chriss at October 31, 2004 05:02 AM
hi