SOS: McCain to bin Laden -- Where is that Video You Promised Me?

In the heart of darkness that is the McCain campaign we know what they are waiting for, their last and best hope, the late October video from Osama threatening to "Bomb, bomb, bomb you Christian-Jewish dogs." We've been there. Done that. And since 9/11 it has always worked for the Republican candidate. Under America's ghoulmeister Rudy Giuliani, McCain's ambassador to chaos, Republicans have branded that American catastrophe for political profit, and worn it as a Dracula costume before every election to scare the electorate at Halloween. So why not once again? The McCain campaign has probably bought some air-time to run before the election to give such a bin Laden message its viral intensity. Time to frighten everyone who lives in the heartland and might be thinking of voting for Barack. After all, there must be some corn field in Iowa that is a strategic target. As Sarah Palin might say, "We can't risk having the terrorists bomb the ethanol out of us, can we Katie?"

Experience tells us that it is in Osama bin Laden's best interests to assure a McCain presidency any way that he can. The bellicosity of McCain's world view is just what bin Laden needs to oil Al-Qaeda's hate machine and keep it going. Beyond McCain's off again on again views of torture, he has no credibility since he declared a global war on the truth, and the more the world sees of him, the less it can trust him. Who else but an egregious opportunist would impose the dangerously ignorant Sarah Palin upon the world? The rest of the world still rises and falls with this country, and it will have to live in fear together with Americans that she will assume the Presidency, given McCain's age and health.

I am not so naïve as to believe that the election of Barack Obama would usher in an era of world wide good will, but it would jump start the restoration of the American reputation in the world, and probably bring greater cooperation among Western European countries in providing our government with information that will keep Americans safer. You can't tolerate torture and then expect countries who view the use of torture with shock and horror to cooperate with you in handing over terrorist suspects.

By this time we should all know that Osama bin Laden will do his damndest to defeat Barack and put McCain in the White House. Why the intrepid Sarah herself might even be dropped over the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to find bin Laden and carry his video message back to campaign headquarters. After all that woman can see Putin in Moscow all the way from her native Alaska, and as one who has had her demons driven out by a minister and shot wolves from a helicopter, she is perfectly safe in dealing with the demonic bin Laden, particularly if he shape shifts into a wolf. She might not be ready for a probing interview but she's up to the task of carrying the mail back to McCain. No kidding. The Obama campaign had better be armed against that video, ready to push back the Republican hate machine which will try to associate Obama with the terrorists. The Dems must use that very video to illustrate how bin Laden is desperate for McCain to be elected. It's true. And sometimes the truth gets through. So be prepared.

Comments

[wrylass]

Agreed that he is in all likelihood dead.

[mommadona]

Bin Laden is dead.

We are reacting to his little minion who's got a nice little studio - equipped with the best AV equipment, located in a main city in Pakistan....

He's having a GREAT time, keeping this all going.....

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"!!!!!!

Grab his ass and drag him back over here to meet his fate......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVGZ8q1b6FQ&feature=related

[tuttlemsm]

One problem for McCain is that if Obama does show up on our TV screens, on a gut level, I think a lot of people would prefer Obama's calm, reassuring, steady leadership style to deal with it rather than McCain's unpredictable, erratic style.

[Infokronea]

You are right on target. The evidence does seem to suggest that the Bush/McCain sector has formed a co-dependent relationship with al Qaeda. I don't mean they dine out together, but both do reap certain benefits from this so-called "war on terror". For example, both use the other to recruit followers, funds, and to rationalize anti-social behavior. Fun, no? As for any potential "October Surprise": Yes, we should all be concerned. But not because of the possibility of a new tape or, God forbid, a terrorist attack. No, we should be concerned because the debate in this country is no longer whether or not our current crop of leaders will protect us (after Katrina, we know the score; we are all expendable.), but whether or not our enemies are in the mood to continue the Bush reign of error and provide the GOP with the "show" they need to put McCain/Palin in the White House, body count and all. Depressing, isn"t it?

[NicoloM]

McCain's oktoberfest could be bin Laden, but probably not, since Obama got in front of that by pointing out Bin Laden got away because McCain was obsessed with Iraq. Sure there will be the reduced brain functioning with the initial fear of a new tape, but those folks are in the McCain bag anyway. Most of the rest of us are so level orange weary we'll know right away that Bin Laden showing up is proof positive of the BushMcCain failures.
FOX has been banging the war drum for Iran with the speedboats and old P3 in the straits of Hormuz. So taking control of the oil straits and bombing whatever part of Iran threatens the oil shipping would be a multiple win for BushCo (remember BushCo already got rid of the Admiral who said "no" to this piracy). Higher oil prices, act tough against the axis of E, and cloud the bailout debauchery in worldwide economic turmoil-- sort of like their argument that tax breaks for the obesely rich wasn't the cause of the deficit, terrorism was.
Iran (probably just a small coastal section and a very lucrative Hormuz) is sort of BushCo's going away dream. And then, whether it works or not, McCain gets to sing his song by the only group who hasn't shunned him, you know how it goes---
bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran...
McCain is acting more like Dr. Strangelove every day.

[allonfla]

Haven't you heard? Reality is in the tank for Obama! If an Osama video was to surface tomorrow - McCain will blow it like he did the economic crisis - lurching, erratic, angry - he will react just as hastily as he did when 9/11 happened.

[lindaqqq]

they'll dig up a "new" bin ladin tape just in time to scare the hockey moms and joe sixs packs.
I hope Obama has his ad already made
BIN LADIN STILL ON THE LOOSE, THANKS GEORGE BUSH AND JOHN MCCAIN.
or a false flag attack.

[BCubedReg]

The add should say "THANKS GEORGE BUSH AND JOHN MCCAIN FOR FAILING TO DO YOUR DUTY IN CAPTURING BIN LADEN."

Thanks (not) for distracting the American people with Iraq Instead of focusing on the person responsible for 9/11.

[Rog49Thomas]

To be most effective the RP's Mr. October needs to wait until nearer the end of the month so that the shock value hits and thoughtful analysis takes place 5 November.

[ObamaSheeple]

Bin Laden may be dead! Why didn't anyone ask the new President of Pakistan Zardari, especially when he was at the U.N. ogling Palin, if what his wife said was true to his knowledge. Why?

Here is the David Frost interview on the BBC just before her assassination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

[TenThings]

So be it. People are so fed up and tired of this fear crap, and terrorist/republican crap, Its not the 60's,70's, 80's, or even 90's anymore...People are fed up with this mentality. It will probably even Help Obama. Its all about mentality and a majority of people in 2008 America are over it.

[LeftRight]

I don't even think THAT would work anymore!