If the OBL tape is the October Surprise, how'd they do it?

[Timefortruth]

The mainstream press has called this one as a disaster for Kerry. Who knows whether it will stick, but if it does how'd they pull it off.

[CTD]

1. "They" didn't have to...

OBL NEEDS W. Just like W needs OBL.

[Timefortruth]

5. Every now and then you hear a truth,

and it slaps you in the face.

Your post did just that.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. How?

How is it a disaster for KERRY?

For Christ's sakes, it's just rubbing SHRUB's nose in his failure to get OBL.

The mainstream press is looking for any way to dis JFK.

They're going to go after him as soon as he's elected, even worse than they did with Clinton.

I can feel this one coming................

[Timefortruth]

8. I don't agree that it is necessarily a disaster for Kerry,

but the spin is that it is a disaster for Kerry. The public laps up the spin, ergo the tape helps Bush.

[Timefortruth]

10. My emphasis must have been poor,

because my point was only that the spin will be for Bush, not the perception. Unfortunately, the spin often becomes the reality.

[randr]

3. It is a plus for * because it takes the attention off

the explosives in Iraq and brings the scare tactic to the forefront.

[Carni]

4. HTF is this a disastor for kerry? LOL

Gee did Kerry let UBL ride out of Tora Bora on a mule?

Was Kerry in biz with UBL's brother?

Gee, you forgot...that would be Bush.

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. "They" did nothing

Bin Laden has been unable to strike so he is fucking with the American head.

Trying to figure out who he would like better is absurd in the extreme. He is our enemy. It's like asking the rapist which of his victims has the nicest tits.

Any idiot allowing our enemy to manipulate us into voting a certain way because of his mere existence deserves whatever leader our enemy has chosen for us.

[notadmblnd]

7. They've had the tapes for a few weeks

and just now decided to release them.

[Timefortruth]

11. Do you know this, or just guess it? nt

[notadmblnd]

13. just a guess

nt

[Gyre]

9. Don't be an idiot!

The 'October Surprise' is supposed to be something that THEY hatched. As somebody pointed out elsewhere, this is THE OPPOSITE of that. This was done TO them. Big difference.

BTW, can't wait for October to be over so you parrots have to stop saying "October Surprise". Usually, it's my favorite month.

Gyre

[dogman]

12. Maybe they took a camera down to the basement.

He was looking healthy, maybe he's gotten the medical care available in the WH. Feeding on table scraps from upstairs wouldn't hurt either. I actually believe it would be in OBL's interests to tell us his own message which is "get out'. That's been his cause all along it would seem to me. As he noted niether man is going to change his cause until our policy toward him changes which seems unlikely. I just think he pretty much told it the way he sees it.

[West Coast Democrat]

14. It's only a disaster if people like you get demoralized because of it

I don't see how it has an effect on anyone's voting preference.

[GoBlue]

15. It's a mystery to me

But Americans see Bush as stronger on terrorism. Nevermind that his war is an absolute disaster so far. Bush wins = OBL wins =USA loses. Got it?