BUSH partisans sent over to DU to pump up Osama story

[PretzelWarrior]

and discourage DU folks. Can't you see it? Turn these MOFOs in fast by alerting on their posts. It's not what we need today.

It is the ultimate weapon that could go either way...and Rove & company are really desperate by pulling this one out of their @sses a few days before election.

[theoceansnerves]

1. i was thinking the same thing.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Some of these people are saying it helps *.

Give me a f'ing break!

[Walt Starr]

15. I thought it helped *

until somebody started posting all of what he was saying.

This really hurts * badly during an already bad week.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. No kidding

You'd think that Kerry was crashing and burning and that Bush was about to take 49 states based on the reaction to this tape.

[DrWeird]

4. I'm confused.

How is Osama laughing about Bush's incompetence an endorsement of Kerry. Seems like an endorsement for Bush to me.

[Sean Reynolds]

6. Because I believe he said Kerry is bad, but Bush is worse.

[DrWeird]

17. No, he said Bush was more incompetent.

Which would be an endorsement for Bush.

[PretzelWarrior]

11. it's all about bringing out the "BOGEYMAN"

and focusing everyone back on that singularly horrific day of 9/11.
Bush is a one-trick pony. Everything he ever did include attempt to f*ck his wife after 9/11 has been justified by him using that attack.

[Skittles]

5. why would pumping the Osama story be good for Bush

the guy Bush said CANNOT RUN AND CANNOT HIDE is still running and hiding THREE YEARS LATER

[Robbie67]

7. Into witch hunts?

You dont think DU would be chatting about this story either way?

[PretzelWarrior]

14. of course they/we would but look at all the OH MY GOD, we're DEAD posts

it is ridiculous. and so many in such a short time by people with 100 to 200 posts is rather fishy.

[Robbie67]

31. good to be vigilant

but it's not outside the realm of possibility that some Kerry supporters might see the story a different way than other Kerry supporters

I believe it means nothing, except that the man who Bush promised to get "dead or alive" is on the loose and making videos thumbing his nose. It's a negative for Bush.

[southern democrat]

8. I am pumped because we were promised OBL dead or alive and all we got

was a tape proving their failure to capture or kill OBL

[Howardx]

9. hehe "OHMIGOD! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!!!!"

we all knew this was coming for over a year.

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[progressivebydesign]

12. Fuck them. OBL is STILL alive and Bush has failed us. end of story. nt

[LiberteToujours]

13. It's not the tape that worries me

But how the GOP is going to spin it. We cannot just live in our happy bubble laughing off the tape. We need to plan a response that puts Bush on the defensive, not us. They are going to do everything they can to turn this one on us and we need to be prepared. We cannot afford to be ignorant at this point.

[PretzelWarrior]

19. well there I'm with you. I don't mean ignore it....but get ahold of

ourselves. Kerry rapid response already has some points formulated to share with the media...and I'm sure we will get Kerry reps on to talk about what's really important in this. WE ARE MUCH LESS SAFE NOW than before 9/11.

Explosives missing, p!ssed off Arabs, the evil Osama still alive and running free...

this is bad for Bush and will be spun that way.

[Philostopher]

25. Well, they haven't had a great deal of luck spinning the explosive

theft so far, though frankly I expected them to pull something convincing. I'm guessing they knew this was coming and thought they could turn it into a windfall, or that at least it would take the Al Qaqaa story off the front page for 24 hours.

As I noted in another thread, though -- I can't imagine the Kerry campaign didn't have some plan to deal with this. It was one of the three most likely scenarios put forth around here, right up there with dropping Cheney off the ticket and putting a moderate on it and a nuclear bomb or attack by Bush* on some other Middle Eastern country.

John Kerry didn't get to be the nominee by getting the right gumball out of a gumball machine. He's been touted by everybody who watched him run in Massachusetts as a great closer -- I'm going to hang on to my hat and see where he goes with it. I'm sufficiently confident he's not unprepared to address it.

[DuaneBidoux]

33. Trust me, Kerry's got a plan...he has outspun Shrub in every way shape and

form since the beginning of this election season. It ain't about to stop now.

[mumon]

16. I caught that too...

Amazing these guys go for 74, 128 posts and then, BAM!

Me, I'm going to go on over to another site...and sew discontent there...

[AnIndependentTexan]

18. This is going to hurt Bush more then Kerry

[shelley806]

20. Does anyone have a list?

How do you know they were posting about OBL to discourage? Did you alert anyone's post? If so, who? So I can read the thread and know what to look for!

[DougieZero]

26. I'm a loyal member

I'm falling for the trap of going off-topic, but why the freeper paranoia? I'm a proud liberal.... but can't we talk candidly on here? I posted that the Bushies will want to spin the tape and everyone is calling me a troll.

[PretzelWarrior]

29. it's not posts like "how do we react" that bother me

it's posts like....OH MY GOD. THEY NAILED US! Kerry can't possibly deal with this! Osama endorsed Kerry! WAHHHHH!!!

That's bullsh!t and I call it.

[DougieZero]

30. fair enough... sorry nt.

[Richardson08]

21. he can run and he can hide...where is his kidney machine?

[JusticeForAll]

22. I am alerting like crazy...

Five alerts so far today...

[PretzelWarrior]

24. me too. snuff these rats before they infect us with the plague

of cynicism and wretchedly low morals.

[w13rd0]

23. Bush has been more concerned...

...with convincing the American people that Kerry "runs and hides" or whatever nonsense he spouts, and making sure they give no thought to that guy Bush promised to "smoke out". Bush is a FAILURE, and Ossama (thanks to the pressure created by Drudge, that feckless shithead) just released a video making fun of him for his incompetence. The cognitive dissonance on the part of the Republicans, in this matter and nearly every other, would, traditionally, be excuse enough to lock them up as pathologically delusional.

[Ducks In A Row]

27. I didn't see that work at all

I was happy to point out that bush is the reason bin laden is still around.

that bush is a total failure

[ThoughtCriminal]

28. Good, bad, doesn't matter as long as it's not about explosives

Need to push that off the front page for a day while they work on a new way to explain it.

[PretzelWarrior]

32. oh-ho-ho....we'll still keep THAT on the front page

because it's just too big. it shows Bush has no handle on things regarding security whether here at home or abroad.

[PretzelWarrior]

34. wow. I posted this a couple hours ago or so...

already on page 9. I guess this place has been on fire, eh?