". . .they ‘despise’ Mr. Bush more than they despise Osama bin Laden."
That presumes that they actually despise OBL. They don't.
I thought about, it's a caption from the article.
I left it in because it says ' more than'.
I think they do despise OBL. I heard that OBL had a screen name at the Democratic Underground and he got booted off for being too pro- American for their tastes.