Copyright John with apologies to DTP:Pretty impressive, eh? No more talking points about Andalusia -- narrowed now to just how Israel is the font of all evil in the world. Did I mention that's a Dem talking point also???
I doubt there is collusion but damn this eerie:
Democratic talking point 1: Bush lies.
"Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you, and obscuring the main reasons and therefore the reasons are still existing to repeat what happened before."
Democratic talking point 2: Bush family/Saudi connection.
"Both parties are arrogant and stubborn and the greediness and taking money without right and that similarity appeared during the visits of Bush to the region while people from our side were impressed by the US and hoped that these visits would influence our countries. Here he is being influenced by these regimes, Royal and military."
Democratic talking point 3: Patriot law takes away our freedoms.
"So he transferred the oppression of freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it the Patriot Law to fight terrorism."
Democratic talking point 4: Bush stole the 2000 election.
"He was bright in putting his sons as governors in states and he didn't forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times."
Democratic talking point 5: 9/11 and My pet goat story
"Before Bush and his administration would pay attention and we never thought that the high commander of the US armies would leave 50 thousand of his citizens in both towers to face the horrors by themselves when they most needed him because it seemed to distract his attention from listening to the girl telling him about her goat butting was more important than paying attention to airplanes butting the towers which gave us three times the time to execute the operation thank god."
So let's do put on our thinking caps. First, we have this clown -- not sure he's AQ but he seems to be produced by one of their normal production houses -- clearly telling us that it's all W's fault and they're about to make 9/11 seem like small potatoes.
Then we have what appears to be Osama with an October surprise appearance with Andalusian amnesia if not as a living breathing Democratic operative. Of course, there's the seeming veneer statement about not caring who wins but in fact, he's doing such a good job with Dem talking points that the most trusted man in America is convinced that Karl Rove is behind his transformation. (Did I mention that Walter has now officially joined John Neville Kerry in the coveted "nuttier than a pecan plantation" status?)
Even Wretchard thinks that Osama is making a surprisingly straightforward appeal to the electorate:
The American answer to Osama's proposal will be given on Election Day. One response is to agree that the United States of America will henceforth act like Sweden, which is on track to become majority Islamic sometime after the middle of this century. The electorate best knows which candidate will serve this end; which candidate most promises to be European-like in attitude and they can choose that path with both eyes open. The electorate can strike that bargain and Osama may keep his word. The other course is to reject Osama's terms utterly; to recognize the pleading in his outwardly belligerent manner and reply that his fugitive existence; the loss of his sanctuaries; the annihilation of his men are but the merest foretaste of what is yet to come: to say that to enemies such as he, the initials 'US' will always mean Unconditional Surrender.Hooo haw. My ancestors were way, way smarter than anyone could have realized to flee Scandinavia, you betcha!
Osama has stated his terms. He awaits America's answer.
Sensing seems to be back at least temporarily and thinks they're down and we should take the opportunity to hit them hard while they are. (Now I remember why I missed Donald :) In a similar vein, Roger thinks it's just a hudna offer -- more likely but no reason not to take the Donald's advice!
If Karl Rove didn't write the script then I would guess Beldar is closer to the mark in thinking that Osama has a bead on Kerry:
I agree. But I respectfully disagree, in part, with Wretchard that "[t]he American answer to Osama's proposal will be given on Election Day." Yes, if Pres. Bush is re-elected, bin Laden will have his answer. But I don't think that bin Laden's tape is primarily an attempt to influence the course of the American election next Tuesday. Rather, I think it's a very clear attempt to begin negotiations with a Kerry administration for a "cease-fire" in the Global War on Terror.Bottom line is that both are true: Osama is going after moderation of talking points (it's a sad, sad commentary when Michael Moore's hateful drivel is considered moderate -- but it's surely true compared to the world wide Caliphate) to sway the voters as well as hoodwink Johnny boy -- who never met a tyrant he didn't support.
Of course, I don't believe for an instant that bin Laden's sincere. Only a blithering fool would trust him. But only a blithering fool would —
- have listened to the North Vietnamese/Viet Cong's "seven-point peace plan" during the Vietnam War, and have taken it at face value and endorsed it as the course that America should follow.
- have believed Daniel Ortega's promises to reform his communist government in Nicaragua if only America would stop funding the contras.
- have believed that a nuclear freeze and sharp cutbacks in America's military and intellligence programs would placate the Soviet Union and win the Cold War.
- have believed that diplomacy would have gotten Saddam out of Kuwait in the last decade, or out of power in his own country in this one.
- believe that North Korea will respond more favorably to unilateral negotiations with the United States than to combined pressure in six-way talks that also involve South Korea, Japan, China, and Russia.
One such blithering fool may be elected President of the United States on Tuesday. And Osama bin Laden — like Madame Binh, Daniel Ortega, a succession of Soviet dictators, Saddam, and Kim Jong Il before him — has already begun his sly attempts to manipulate that candidate. So it is that this blithering fool's personal history of enthusiastically swallowing just this kind of bait, hook, line, and sinker — and then trying to base America's course upon it — scares me far more than anything Osama bin Laden could ever say.
Osama thinks we're stupid enough not to notice the missing Andalusian Caliphate with the focus on Israel. John Neville Kerry is either taken in or thinks the coming Caliphate is a good thing -- how to tell which is a mystery. Possibly both are true.
The election has now become a referendum on whether Osama can hide the destruction of the Bamiyan statues.
As the Soviet dissidents used to say: "The future is known; it's the past that's always changing."
PLEASE VOTE. AND DON'T FORGET BAMIYAN. ISRAEL IS THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE. ALWAY'S HAS BEEN -- ALWAYS WILL BE.
And here's why your vote is important from a comment on Captain's Quarters:
My liberal coworker just informed me that OBL wants Bush to get elected because he knows that if Kerry gets elected that Kerry will come after him and kill him.
How do I respond to something like this? I just quietly shake my head at the ignorance.