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October 30, 2004Bin Laden Bounce for Bush?With many - not all, but too many - pundits and spinners claiming the reemergence of Osama Bin Laden is reinvigorating the Bush campaign, John Kerry has got to jump on this fast and hard: "This is reminder of how miserably Bush has failed at the mission he set out for himself over three years ago."
The how and the why for such a statement is laid out succinctly by William Saletan in Slate, a former supporter of the build-up to the war in Iraq who now realizes what a tremendous favor Bush has paid Bin Laden since the Afghan war, "doing everything he could, inadvertently, to help" him. "Now Bin Laden is returning the favor with poetic symmetry." Unless, of course, enough of us see through what Saletan terms their "codependent relationship," and intervene to short circuit this insane mutual feedback loop:
Bush keeps Bin Laden in business; Bin Laden keeps Bush in office. With clear intentions and lousy judgment, Bin Laden has shown up on the eve of our election, full of the same impenetrable self-assurance Pat Robertson noticed in Bush. No doubt Bin Laden hopes to assist, or at least take credit for, the president's defeat. And no doubt the results will be counterproductive.
Hopefully, just not counterproductive enough. Posted by David Hudson at October 30, 2004 5:52 PM | TrackBackComments
In this most recent tape Bin Laden compared the Bush administration to repressive Arab regimes by saying that: ``in that half of them are ruled by the military and the other half are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents.'' He said the concept became clear to Bush's father when he was president and had visited Arab countries. ``He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision,'' bin Laden said. ``He passed on tyranny and oppression to his son, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the pretext of fighting terror. Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the (Mideast) region to Florida to use it in critical moments.'' Bush's handlers are depending on people not really knowing what was said in that tape. Their only hope is more spin! Posted by: aRuss at October 30, 2004 6:59 PMPost a comment
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