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Dick Morris’ thoughts on the bin Laden tape

Dick Morris made the following observations on Fox News with John Gibson this evening:

1. al Qaeda attempted to influence Spanish and Australian elections with bombs. They’re trying to influence ours with…a tape? Why not a bomb? Because Bush has stopped them!

2. UBL pounds on Bush, and barely mentions Kerry. Tacit endorsement of Kerry by the murderous mastermind.

3. It takes the focus off of Kerry issues and puts it back on Bush issues.

Morris thinks maybe UBL just got Bush re-elected. That may be jumping to conclusions, but his points are well taken.

October 29, 2004 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

bin Laden endorses Kerry

I’ve always maintained that bin Laden was dead, but today’s video mentions more recent events. Thus, it appears as though I am wrong. Unlike liberals, I have no trouble admitting that I am wrong.

First we had “Azzam the American” on video endorsing Kerry. Now Osama bin Laden endorses him (so to speak): http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041029/D861ANVO2.html

Tell me, liberals, since you guys have insisted that Bush is a great recruiting tool for al Qaeda: why are they working so hard to defeat Bush?

Answer: Because they know Kerry is weak, and Bush is not.

Kerry has now made a mountain out of a molehill about the missing explosives…he was wrong. He basically blamed and lied about the troops (he sure has a habit of doing that during war time, doesn’t he?)…he was wrong. He now has the ringing endorsement of al Qaeda terrorists. This is a man who is sinking fast.

Boy, if that Swiftie story turns out to be real and not just some Internet rumor, then the Poodle is toast!

October 29, 2004 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Swifties to the rescue?!?

Dear Lord, let’s pray this is true!

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/008364.php

Don’t dismiss PowerLine! They were the ones that brought down CBS with the forged documents story. These guys are good! However, they do have the disclaimer that the credibility hasn’t been assessed yet. And to be fair, there’s no way to guarantee that it will be verified, especially since Drudge isn’t running with it yet. I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but in an election this close, it’s hard not to!

If this is true (and notice I did stress if), then we should be so lucky!

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Our bumbling, incompetent troops…and what about those weapons?

Kerry said during a campaign stop that Bush bungled the guarding of the explosives. He said that ridding Iraq (and terrorists) of “weapons of ANY destruction” was “why we went into Iraq.”

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hasn’t he been saying that we went into Iraq for WMD’s (weapons of mass destruction), not WAD’s (weapons of any destruction)? He’s said that failure to find WMD’s is proof that they weren’t there (contrary to his assessment from 1998 – 2003). And now he’s saying that we knew Saddam had WAD’s, and that’s “why we went into Iraq in the first place”?

Umm…didn’t he just prove Bush’s point and make Bush’s case for invading Iraq? He just flip-flopped (big surprise) his position on why we went into Iraq: finding WMD’s vs. finding WAD’s. And if failure to find the missing WAD’s implies that they existed in the first place, then his claim that WMD’s never existed is logically inconsistent with his premise.

Guess it just depends on which way the political winds blow…thus, perfectly illustrating why (among countless reasons) he is unfit for command.

Also, was Bush guarding the weapons bunkers? No, the troops were supposed to. So if Kerry is saying the same thing that his talking points at CBS-NYT is saying, which is that the explosives disappeared after the fall of Iraq, then Kerry is necessarily saying that the troops are incompetent, since they were tasked with guarding the stash, right? No, Kerry praises our troops as “heroic”, when what he really means is “heroically incompetent.” He is trying to trash Bush, but he cannot do it without by proxy denigrating our soldiers.

Yeah, calling the troops bumbling idiots is a great way to inspire confidence in them to follow you! I swear, this guy is clueless!

Finally, if you’re sick of the missing explosives story, please throw me a bone and read this last story about it. I mean, there will be more stories, but this is a short timeline that tells you everything you need to know about it. Read it, then I’ll quit asking you to check out related stories…I promise!

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32832.htm

October 29, 2004 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

No October surprise?

Wes Pruden of the Washington Times says there won’t be one. He thinks the missing explosives non-story was an attempt to be one, but it fizzled…thus, there’s nothing left.

I hope Bush has one, but I’m not confident that he does.

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Speaking of media bias…

Thomas Sowell properly points out the media disgrace.

It seems to me that after this election, the media may suffer a backlash like it’s never seen before. If Kerry wins, people will abandon MSM sources in droves. If Bush wins, people will point and laugh at MSM sources…and abandon them in droves. Their ratings and circulations have been in the tank for years, getting worse every year. But the MSM is like Ahab in Moby Dick…they’ll forge ahead at their own peril, all in the name of their cause. In the end, like Ahab, their cause will have forsaken them.

I remember when I was in college in 1992, and the day after the election in which Bill Clinton won, our local newspaper had a political cartoon that was funny in its truth. It had a bunch of reporters (wearing badges from the NYT, LAT, Boston Blobe, AP, etc.) jumping up and down in ecstacy screaming “WE won!”, then in the second frame, they appeared subdued with their eyes shifting around, calmly proclaiming “Er…I mean…he won!” That says it all, my friends.

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Fatal campaign gaffe for Kerry?

Perhaps “fatal” is overstating it, but Dick Morris thinks it’s not.

Morris does have good points, though, about Kerry shifting focus of the campaign back to Bush’s perceived strengths. However, to be fair, Morris has been all over the map. Early summer, he was predicting a Kerry win. Right before the debates, he said it was over for Kerry. After the first debate, he said Bush had lost the election (“talked himself out of the presidency”, to be exact). Now, he’s back to picking Bush again.

Granted, it’s been a seesaw election, and Morris looks silly by using such definitive predictions, as if each was a foregone conclusion. However, all pundits like Morris’ insight, even if they disagree with his ultimate conclusions.

Also, I unfortunately think that Morris gives the electorate too much credit in how much news they consume. I don’t know that the average Joe/Jane knows that the weapons disappeared before our troops got there, or that the Russians may have moved them. My guess is that they’ve seen the CBS-NYT collaboration (as parroted by The Poodle himself), and all they know is “Weapons disappeared. Must be Bush’s fault.” Hopefully, I’ll be proven wrong on this.

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