That's now an inoperative statement.
-R. Zeigler

"Our previous positions have a liberal bias"

Who gives a damn what the people who kill women and children think. This is and always should be the comeback for this non-sense, but it is refreshing to see a republican duck and weave through their own devises.

Fabulous. The Republicans have been pushing the "9/11 changed *everything*" line for years now, and here is a perfect example. Because of Bush and his idiot party, 9/11 has resulted in the "terrorists" now having a say in U.S. presidential elections. How ludicrous.

Hide and watch. The republicans will have it turned around in no time so that it's palatable for concumption by its base.

This is hysterical. And that they're panicked about it is even funnier.

Hide and watch. The republicans will have it turned around in no time so that it's palatable for concumption by its base.

This is hysterical. And that they're panicked about it is even funnier.

"Consistency, logic and reason are all liberal fantasies."

Does this mean I should go shopping?

I think the quote is from Kennedy (Joseph? John?)

"Don't tip high and say 'vote Democrat'. Tip low and say 'vote Republican'."

It seems appropriate to an Al Qaeda endorsement.

If the Shi'a support the Democrats and the Sunnis support the Republicans...

And if Iraq has more Shi'a than Sunni...

Should the Democrats support statehood for Iraq?

The GOP has the password to Al Qaeda's website?

Does anyone else recall that Yassir Arafat was caught denouncing terrorism in English and preaching holy war in Arabic to his followers?

Would they lie to US?
Surely they tell each other lies in their native tongue and save the truth for us instead.

OBL may trump all. THIS meme needs to be pounded REALLY hard. If an OBL video comes out praising Obama, THIS might be a sufficient antidote.

MIGHT be. After all, Real Americans were dumb enough to vote for Bush in 2004.

McBush: Does Mc mean "Son of"?

The key paragraphs from the Wapo article:

In any event, the comments summarized what has emerged as a consensus view on extremist sites, said Adam Raisman, a senior analyst for the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist Web pages ...

"The idea in the jihadist forums is that McCain would be a faithful 'son of Bush' -- someone they see as a jingoist and a war hawk. They think that, to succeed in a war of attrition, they need a leader in Washington like McCain."

Looky:

Because we have more emotional distant from 9/11, the analytical argument that Al Qaeda seeks to bleed us to death in the desert has more force. That terrorists have come to this consensus is totally damning. That's why McCain's camp is rattled. And that's why this greatly matters...

McCain-Palin: endorsed by Al-Qaida. Hilarious.

If we consider that Al-Qaida wants to keep the United States in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to collapse our econonmy, would most people agree that the plan is working given the state of our economy?

Who gives a damn what the people who kill women and children think. ?????
The good old USA seems to be a perp in this activity.(mines,rockets,predators 52's)You name it. We have commited the act. Oh yeah I should have said somthing about nepalm.

Al Qaeda has been outsmarting the Republicans for years. They just did it again.

"My friends, I know how to capture bin Laden."

What are you going to do, John? Invite him to deliver his endorsement in person?

Indeed, if the situation were reversed, and that same page had expressed support for Obama, every Republican in America would be screaming hysterically right now.

This is a good point and of course quite true. The good news is that this reversed situation is a highly unlikely scenario.

I think we have our October surprise.

OBL's November 2004 gamesmanship was pretty clear even to me, and I certainly don't do this for a living:

http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0411a.html#3d

Bush-McPain are good for business.

BINGO!!!

BINGO!!!

I've been saying for years that extremists need each other to validate their own views of themselves. Radical Israeli rightists need radical Palestinians to justify their existence. Bomb-throwing Catholics needed bomb-throwing Protestants in Northern Ireland. Without the 'other' how are they going to know who they are?

McCain has on several occasions pointed out, falsely, that Gen. Patraeus had described Iraq as the central front in the war on terror.

It is only lightly rebutted, but the truth is, or should be that America's and Al Qaeda's agenda's are or should be diametrically opposed.

This is why they need separation from this resounding endorsement.

But just like a republican, they want it both ways.

Two painful questions

Benen: Indeed, if the situation were reversed, and that same page had expressed support for Obama, every Republican in America would be screaming hysterically right now.

Which begs two questions:

1) Why are Democrats not screaming at least semi-hysterically?

2) Does the lack of screaming from the Democratic side indicate one reason why the public trusts Republicans more on security issues?

Who gives a damn what the people who kill women and children think. ?????
The good old USA seems to be a perp in this activity.(mines,rockets,predators 52's)You name it. We have committed the act.

Yeah, there are even some who post here who express glee at the death of an innocent woman and her child; hell, even going so far as to expressly wish to have been the executioner. Sure, it was in the context of an extra-judicial murder of a terrorist suspect, but it's not like that make it better. We're talking about 2:1 collateral damage to target. That's a pretty crappy ratio.

Say what you want about the "head choppers," but at least those guys are man enough to face their victims - and in many cases - die with them.

There is a special place in hell for terrorists. There is another for those who plant bombs and run away to safety.

It's pretty simple really. Bin Laden waited to attack on 911 because he wanted a certain response, and knew that with Bush he would get it. He got it. With McCain he would get the same and more of it, again, just what he wants. If attacked, McCain is certain to borrow another trillion dollars from China, spend more than that, sacrifice another 4 or 5 thousand American soldiers, and get nowhere, just like Bush. Just like the USSR.

Maybe we can avoid thinking about what Al-Qaeda thinks and just focus on what would be good for the war on terror and what would be bad for the war on terror.

Oops. Sorry. That's probably too complex.

There is a special place in hell for terrorists. There is another for those who plant bombs and run away to safety.

Can we say stealth bombers. Who the hell was Mccain bombing? Small brown people

Well, McCain was looking for a key endorsement this week.

The reason to avoid screaming hysterically is that it's been tried before, it really is better not to provide free publicity to terrorists, and the last thing you want is to end up sounding like Vizzini in the Princess Bride:

Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

Man in Black: You've made your decision then?

Vizzini: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.

Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Vizzini: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?

Let's not forget that Jerome Corsi over @ WorldNetDaily was making much the same charges earlier this year.

Which raises the question of whether we're seeing a CIA-manufactured forgery "just to keep people scared" long enough to vote for McCain, and to excuse such as being for G-d and Country.

dr2chase, don't forget that ultimately both glasses contained poison.

Sometimes all the answers are wrong and you are better off not asking the question in the first place.