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 read as a bizarre endorsement of Bush’s Democratic challenger John Kerry, bin Laden, addressing the American people, said “best way to avoid another disaster” was to avoid provoking Arab anger. “Liberals do not neglect their security, contradicting Bush, who says that we hate freedom,” bin Laden said.
If he hoped to influence the US elections, the ploy could backfire. Kerry, whom Bush has attempted to paint as soft on terrorism, is unlikely to benefit from what appears to be praise from bin Laden.
Mr. Laden echoes the sentiments of Michael Moore and John Kerry throughout the tape, lambasting the president for sitting through the My Pet Goat story before misleading the American people.
I tend to believe that this endorsement is going to backfire for the bin Laden/Moore/Kerry axis.
Blogs for Bush speculates that bin Laden must be one of the “world leaders” who want Kerry to win.
The fact is, the reason that bin Laden said it is because, yep, Bush could be attacked for “my pet goat.”
Deal with it- Bush’s incompetence has, proof positive- emboldened our enemies.
And the fact that Bush let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora so he could entertain is Iraq adventure only makes Bush that much more of a miserable failure.
Remember: we know al Qaeda has previously endorsed Bush, as any visitor to my blog can see.
Spin, spin spin all you want, but Bush has clearly made us less safe, less free, and less well off.
And we will recover when Bush loses his job on Tuesday.
Still screaming, I see. Bin Laden appears to be upset that Bush didn’t react as he expected he would. That’s a good thing, actually.
And like Michael Moore (and you), bin Laden says we invaded Iraq to steal the oil.
You folks sure think alike.
Richard, I’ve talked to folks on both sides who suggest they will leave the country if their candidate looses. Both are pretty convinced that this country will loose it’s way, if the other side wins. I’ve never heard anything like this before. What do you think?
Richard, I noted yesterday that The Economist endorsed Kerry–which surprosed me; and that Pat Buchanan endorsed Bush–which also surprised me, since I figured he would refuse to make an endorsement. Did you read his reasons for the endorsement in latest American Conservative?
I don’t follow Pat Buchanan, whose thinking on national defense aligns so closely with the Democratic Party I wonder how he can call himself a conservative.
He’s with them on this “outsourcing” nonsense and their isolationism, for example.