Posted on 10/31/2004 8:33:58 PM PST by d0le
PHILADELPHIA -- A new videotape message from terror mastermind Osama bin Laden was meant to help President Bush win re-election, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Sunday.
"It's obvious to me that bin Laden is trying to help George Bush, because George Bush is the best recruiter that al-Qaida has," Rendell told "Fox News Sunday."
"George Bush is so disliked in the Arab world that we're creating terrorists every single day -- more terrorists than we can even come close to killing," the Democrat said.
"You've got to be kidding, Ed," replied Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, who chairs the Bush-Cheney campaign in Arkansas and appeared on "Fox News Sunday" with Rendell. "Seriously, I don't think anyone in America cares or knows who Osama bin Laden is for for president."
The Bush campaign called Rendell's comments "disgusting."
"For John Kerry's surrogates to suggest that Osama bin Laden supports President Bush's reelection is disgusting," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said in a statement. This just demonstrates once again that for John Kerry, the war on terror is about political opportunity, not victory."
In the latest video, bin Laden acknowledged for the first time directly that he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks and said he did so because of injustices against the Lebanese and Palestinians by Israel and the United States. The television network Al-Jazeera broadcast portions of the 18-minute videotape on Friday.
On Saturday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said he believed bin Laden wanted to sway the election to Democratic candidate John Kerry because Kerry would not work as hard to find him.
Both Rendell and Thompson agreed the tape was meant to influence the election.
"I know that bin Laden did it on purpose and with design," Rendell said.
Turning to Pennsylvania politics, Rendell said it would be "awfully hard" for Kerry to win the election without winning the Keystone State, which polls show to be a toss-up between Kerry and Bush.
Rendell said that when he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2000, trying to help Al Gore win the presidency, "I tried to come up with scenarios for us to win without Pennsylvania, and there really weren't any."
Hahahahahaha!
This quote cracks me up every time I see it. How can the due who has been killing Al-Qaida dirt-monkeys for two years be the best recruiter?
due = dude
perhaps the US Military hating Gov. can explain why BL came out against Bush in that tape this week...
Yeah, they really loved us BEFORE!
Being a Dim is a mental disorder.
After all, these terrorists nuts are suicidal maniacs.
Who better than Bush to grant them their fondest desires!?
I'll be glad when that scummy party bites the dust.
When you think about it, is there any other conceivable anti-Bush spin the liberals among us could suggest? I can't think of any other way they could interpret this tape and its contents such that it would work against Bush and for Kerry. The reverse psychology logic is absolutely pathetic. How anyone can take it seriously is beyond me.
"more terrorists than we can even come close to killing," the Democrat said. "
That's where he's wrong. By God, we can killing MILLIONS if we need to!
I'd be perfectly willing for Ed to do an imitation of Slim Pickens, in Dr. Strangelove, so that he could see how many can be killed.
'Jever notice how much Kerry looks like an undertaker?
Right....Bin Laden is on the run and will be smoked out and strung up soon enough. I'll bet when we go into Falluja there'll be a whole lot of Al Queda we can 'interview' to tighten the noose on OBL. His days are numbered, but he knows with Kerry in the White House he'd be free and able to rebuild his terror group. With Bush in power what's he got? A camera man and a new robe.
He's not even carrying a gun anymore [proof that he's a liberal?!].
Do I smell the hint of desperation in the air?
I hate that spittle-spewing crapweasel Rendell almost as much as I hate Jean Fraud Kerry.
Ed Rendell needs a cranioanalectomy.
Therefore, according to Rendell, the leader of Al Quaida wants Bush to remain in office.
Makes no sense at all.
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