Posted on 09/07/2007 4:50:33 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Edited on 09/07/2007 4:57:16 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Darn it, when will Osama Bin Laden's jack-in-the-box moments start hurting Republicans, as they should? That was the prevailing sentiment on today's "Morning Joe." At 6:40 a.m. EDT, reacting to the news that OBL is planning to release a new video to mark the sixth anniversary of 9-11, Host Joe Scarborough expressed his perplexity to NBC News political director Chuck Todd.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hey Chuck, we see Osama Bin Laden is appearing again, coming to a computer somewhere near you soon. Of course Republicans wish he would show up two days before the election cause the guy certainly helped George Bush beat John Kerry back in 2004. But how does the re-emergence of Osama Bin Laden impact this race? Do we assume that it's going to help the Republican party again like it did in 2004?View video here.
CHUCK TODD: I don't know. You keep wondering when is the double-edged part of this sword [going to] show up? Does him popping up on TV screens serve as a reminder, you know on Iraq, the public might think that Iraq is a diversion, and hey you Bush took his eye off of the ball. This guy is still out there. But let's see if it is him. I guess he's using Hair Club for Men now, Just for Men [earlier Joe had joked that OBL was using "For Terrorists Only."] . . . Where do you get hair color in the mountains of Pakistan? I didn't realize you could do that. Knee jerk, it seems to still help Republicans, even Hillary Clinton said that. She probably shouldn't have done that, but she did say that. But at some point, the more Osama pops up, it's may end up eventually hurting the Republicans.
Matthew Felling of CBSNews.com's "Public Eye", who's been a panelist this week, joined the chorus.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, you would think that it would. But I think I agree with Hillary Clinton. Right now for some reason it still seems to help Republicans, which is just fascinating. You'd think it would bring up Tora Bora and would make everybody say "why are we in Iraq?"
MATTHEW FELLING: What happened to that "wanted dead or alive" thing in 2001?
SCARBOROUGH: Exactly. Who knows?
Why do Americans look to Republicans to deal with terrorism? Might it have anything to do with the fact that, with Pres. Bush in the White House, there have been no major terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9-11 despite the fact that our country surely remains #1 on the terrorists' target list?
Could it be we sense that Democrats, in their heart of hearts, don't take the threat of terrorism seriously? That when al-Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, Bill Clinton never bothered to drop by and treated a terror attack as a police matter? That, even to this day, one of the leading Dem presidential candidates denies that there even is such a thing as the war on terror?
MSM can’t figure why people trust Republicans on terror. Ping to Today show list.
I thought Rove was gone?
TMB!
Did they really say "Obama"???
You guys are good. A reader at NB caught my mistake within minutes, too. It’s been fixed now.
OBL keeps towing the DNC Party Line. He’s worse for them than Cindy Sheehan. Ha HA!
Fred Thompson is an adult. He gets it. Let's hope he can articulate this common sense to enough braindead voters for him to get into the WH.
Well, has anyone actually seen Rove and Bin Laden in the same room together? Maybe Rove resigned so he could make more videos.
/DU tinfoil hat off
Not enough java, Joe? Dazed and confused?
Thanks for reporting on the reporters, Mark. Outstanding!
Many thanks, PG. Stunning that the panel never gave the President any credit or considered the Dems weak record on terrorism.
Looks like Osama's been hitting the bottle.
MSM circa 1942 would probably wonder why we were in North Africa. And why we were fighting Germans when it was the Japanese that attacked Pearl Harbor?
The utterly brainless and shameless spin coming from the mouths of the Dems/Libs does more to damage them than anything that we could do or say about them.
Come on, now, Mark.
You cannot tell me that after all this time, you are truly "stunned" by that.
It's par for the course, de rigueur, everyday.
True. Call me ever-hopeful ;-)
Jokes... jokes and more jokes.
When is Cronkite going to proclaim that Karl Rove put Osama up to making the tape?
Your reporting on the “reporters” is OUTSTANDING! Thank YOU!
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