Another ringing endorsement for Kerry

Posted by Richard Bennett

Yasser Arafat is joined in enthusiastically endorsing John Kerry by one of his brothers-in-arms:

Addressing the American people, bin Laden says in the video: “Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic candidate John) Kerry or (US President George W.) Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands ….”
In what could be [...]

Al Qaeda’s Kerry endorsement

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From Best of the Web Today, the official Al Qaeda endorsement of John Kerry:

“No, my fellow countrymen you are guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. You are as guilty as Bush and Cheney. You’re as guilty as Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Powell,” he says in what he calls his message to America. “After decades of American tyranny [...]

Truly absurd

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Washington Post puts the Al QaQaa story in context:
“There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons of rather ordinary explosives, regardless of what actually happened at al Qaqaa,” Anthony H. Cordesman, a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in an assessment yesterday. “The munitions at al Qaqaa were [...]

Why Kerry is losing this election

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Thomas P.M. Barnett explains it all:

I know the temptation of appealing to people’s fears during difficult times. I also know of the challenge of the challenger in getting a frightened public to get rid of a powerful leader during uncertain times. But the Dems have made two fatefully bad choices in this election by choosing [...]

Thoughtful analysis and stuff

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Megan McArdle offers a thoughtful analysis of the presidential candidates and concludes that Bush is the lesser evil. If you’re into that kind of thing, go check it out. Here’s a teaser:

What about Kerry? He’s been on the wrong side of pretty much every foriegn policy issue he addressed before he began running for president, [...]

Four more years

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Bush cousin John Ellis sums it up:

Our enemies will brace for four more years of hell if Bush is re-elected. They will celebrate if Senator Kerry wins.
Here’s to four more years of hell.
Amen.
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Why terrorists support Kerry

Posted by Richard Bennett

Some of the more delusional among us refuse to admit that the terrorists want the President to be removed from office. I know, how can I take anyone who harbors this delusion seriously — OK, I can’t. Here’s an old Krauthammer column on the subject:

The terrorists’ obvious objective is to drive from power those governments [...]

Warum George W. Bush der bessere Pr?sident ist

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Germany’s largest newspaper, Bild, has endorsed President Bush’s re-election:

In sechs Tagen, am 2. November, hat Amerika die Wahl: George W. Bush oder John Kerry? Hier nennt BILD-Autor Hugo M?ller-Vogg seine zehn Gr?nde, warum es f?r Deutschland, die Welt und Amerika besser w?re, wenn George W. Bush Pr?sident bleibt*.
So we have Koizumi, Putin, Curt Schilling, [...]

Surprise endorsement

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From Power Line, an interview with Curt Schilling:

GIBSON: “Well, well said, Curt and Shonda. You both have certainly lifelong membership now in the Red Sox nation. It was a great thing to watch, and I think everybody ? whether they were great Red Sox fans or not — had to admire what this team did. [...]

Iraqi explosives story

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So CBS had planned to run the story about 380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq (out of 600,000 total) this weekend in order to sink the Bush re-elect effort, but the NY Times beat them to the punch. Unfortunately, NBC News has busted them:

An NBC News crew that accompanied U.S. soldiers who seized the [...]