Osama Bin Laden Resurfaces In Congressional Race (VIDEO)

The National Republican Congressional Committee is poised to release a new ad for their man in the race to fill a vacant House seat in New York. The ad, titled "National Tragedy," beats up on Democratic candidate Scott Murphy for refusing to say he'd advocate the death penalty for the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The spot begins with the words "September 11, 2001." As audio plays of Murphy giving a somewhat mealy-mouthed response to the death penalty prompt, the ad shows a series of terrorist mugshots culminating with a smiling Osama bin Laden.

The ad comes on the same day a new poll showed that Republican Jim Tedisco's steadily-dwindling lead among likely voters had become a four-point deficit. Poll respondents said they viewed the Tedisco campaign as "more negative" than his opponent's.

Comments

[voltage356]

11:19 PM on 03/28/2009

Lead the sheeps to water and the rest shall follow for sure.

[karela]

10:31 PM on 03/28/2009

Two hundred and thirty two death row inmates had to be released because DNA evidence proved they were innocent. Most of them were convicted on the basis of eye witness testimony and identifica­tion and most of them were cross racial identifica­tion. At one point Illinois had to suspend it's capitol punishment because they found thirteen innocent people on death row. Unless and until we get a whole lot better about it, I don't think we can use the death penalty---­-and I used to be strongly in favor of it. There are crimes horrible enough to make the people who committed them no longer appropriat­e for human interactio­n, but the anger about the "crime" often translates into conviction­s of people who didn't committ the crimes----­----especi­ally if the prosecutin­g attorney is running for office and needs press coverage. We need to do something different about the way we get prosecutor­s in this country.

[ZellaBee]

04:37 PM on 03/28/2009

There was never any intention of capturing Bin Laden folks. WAKE UP!

[rapscallion01]

02:02 AM on 03/29/2009

what is obama doing in afghanista­n if not looking for terrorist or bin laden?

[ZellaBee]

04:11 PM on 03/29/2009

He's doing his best to get us out of the mess that busheney created. That is all.
Unless he has been duped like everyone else into believing that 9 1 1 was not an inside job.

[Whatashame]

03:57 PM on 03/28/2009

Listen up GOP. We are smart people and this is 2009. You can no longer use fear to get us to vote for you. We're beyong that. You guys had 8 years in which to get Bin Laden and you wasted all your time by going into Iraq. We're not stupid.

[rapscallion01]

02:04 AM on 03/29/2009

maybe obama will catch him in afaganaist­an or pakistan, that's why he's there isn't it

[Whatashame]

03:55 PM on 03/28/2009

This AD is stupid. What's your point. Bush went into Iraq and attacked an innocent country and killed 100's of thousands Iraqs while the real terrorist was Bush and the Rethugs administra­tion.

[hrholmes]

03:39 PM on 03/28/2009

Now just hold on here for a minute. I thought that they (the Bushmeiste­rs) quit hunting Bin Laden after he donated money to the RNC and found out he was a registered republican­. Now they are still trying to tell us this cave dweller is gonna do what? when? how? Osama puts out more tape than that famous black rapper Michaeal Steel anyway.

[rapscallion01]

02:13 AM on 03/29/2009

I thought that was where obama 's campaighn money came from that was sent with them one time use credit cards that can't be traced

[claytonbell]

02:51 PM on 03/28/2009

Why don't we at least start by charging and prosecutin­g terrorists­? Instead of torturing them and setting them free without charges. Man I hate the GOP.

[hrholmes]

05:36 PM on 03/28/2009

uh claytonbel­l, the tortured terrorists it turns out were not terroists to begin with. We are the n-a-z-i guys and they are the victims or haven't you heard yet? jeesh

[esquire07]

02:06 PM on 03/28/2009

How silly that most Americans are so ignorant as to believe some guy in a cave pulled off the 9/11 attacks. With a populace as ignorant as America you can bet there will be more false flags attacks and Americans will give up more and more for less and less.

Fascinatin­g watching a powerful nation crumble.

[rapscallion01]

02:06 AM on 03/29/2009

Not by himself with help like from saddam hussein and other terror groups. He was just the leader.

[JailNeoconVicts]

01:30 PM on 03/28/2009

New ad: "Osama-- we spent eight years not catching him. All the more reason we need eight more!"

[Horus45]

12:24 PM on 03/28/2009

Will they EVER realize that these Negative Ads are the reason no one votes for them anymore?

[rapscallion01]

02:07 AM on 03/29/2009

No wrong, cheating tactics by Accorn got obama elected

[cjk002]

03:45 PM on 04/01/2009

So Acorn was responsibl­e for the 10 million-vo­te margin Obama won by? Wow, they are more powerful than I thought...­.

[labman]

12:05 PM on 03/28/2009

This will give the election to Murphy, the old Republican scare tactics don't work, they just don't realize it.

[cjk002]

11:26 AM on 03/28/2009

If I remember correctly, House members don't get to impose the death penalty on anyone.

This is yet another example of just how divorced from reality and common sense the GOP is, they still think it's 2004.

[Kungfublood]

11:22 AM on 03/28/2009

Good ideas or patriots zero ,however When it comes to Bin Ladin,or terrorists ,the GOP like the famous comedian can proudly say ,"we got a million of them!"

[jrutle]

10:52 AM on 03/28/2009

The GOP is absolutely shameless and devoid of any constructi­ve ideas to address America's real problems. Perhaps if they offer bin Laden a tax cut he'll come out of hiding...

[Taaif Mehadi]

11:34 AM on 03/28/2009

I actually laughed out loud, good one.

[chronic]

11:48 AM on 03/28/2009

ROLMAF!!!

[dems08]

10:23 AM on 03/28/2009

"I don't really think about him very much. I'm not that concerned.­"

- gw on bid Laden

[chronic]

11:49 AM on 03/28/2009

“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.”
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

“I want justice…Th­ere’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive,’”
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI

“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

“I am truly not that concerned about him.”
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabout­s,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

[rapscallion01]

02:09 AM on 03/29/2009

Love it when things are took out of context