October Surprise: No Osama!

Our tinhorn Texas sheriff has failed spectacularly.




If ever
there was a sign of Bush's failure to fight Al-Qaeda, it was the
“October Surprise” of a gloating bin Laden videotape emerging late on a
Friday afternoon.  Bush had promised in 2002 to get bin Laden
“Dead or Alive” – and he failed.  After he failed to get bin Laden
again, at Tora Bora, Bush claimed that bin Laden wasn't that important
anyway.



Now bin
Laden is back, when he should be behind bars.  And Karl Rove
thinks bin Laden's reappearance should HELP Bush.  Yes, Rove is
relying on primal, irrational fear to push undecided voters into the
Bush “Kool-Aid-Jim-Jones” camp of voters.  Rove is hoping people
will get such a Halloween fright that they will vote for Bush, even
though Osama's tape only emphasizes Bush's failures.



Remember when everybody thought that the October surprise was that Bush would produce Osama in chains?  But we miscalculated on that one.  That would assume that Bush could actually succeed at something besides stealing an election. 
And, indeed, with just a videotape of a boastful Osama to air, the Bush
Cartel has sealed four years of failure with a nail that exemplifies
their ineptitude at protecting us.



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