Uh folks..OBL is Friday night and Saturday "news." Which means.........

[Proud2BAmurkin]

it won't help Kerry as much as it could have if it happened in the middle of the week and everyone saw the tape, but people will still hear about it and be reminded of AWOL's failure.

[Soup Bean]

1. Is this a normal Friday dump, though?

I mean, the election is on Tuesday.....any news like this can't really stay buried this weekend, can it?

[txindy]

3. Not with the Sunday talk shows coming up!

I think the Kerry rapid-fire response team will come out blazing Sunday morning. Those surrogates are probably chomping at the bit right now. I would be! OBL on TV when he should be dead. Oh, yeah, lemme at the talk shows! ;)

[Proud2BAmurkin]

6. AWOL gave Kerry the opening he needed to attack on OBL

He accused him of politicizing it, when Kerry didn't even KNOW about the tape when he was talking about Bush's failure. Now Kerry can come back and hammer Bush on the failure to catch America's #1 enemy.

[txindy]

8. Exactly right.

Just the fact that OBL is out there somewhere making taped statements is damning. Add to that the fact that we've got all our troops in Iraq fighting when OBL is obviously someplace else entirely and I do believe B*sh isn't going to have a good weekend, at all.

[tomfodw]

2. Sunday's Halloween. A lot of families will be getting ready to go out

trick-or-treating. May cut down the attention to the Sunday morning talk shows.

Or am I deluding myself?

[WCGreen]

4. Who goes out TorT on Sunday Morning....... NT

NT

[tomfodw]

7. Families with young children often go out in the afternoon so as...

...to be home before it gets dark out. So they might be getting ready in the late morning.

Probably doesn't mean anything.

[Carni]

9. The "security shitheads--er moms" won't be letting their kiddies out

But the rest of us normal people with kids... will be dealing with all Halloween, all the time, ALL weekend!

I don't know about other states...but where I am at it's like a huge deal (Halloween/not the UBL tape)

This UBL thing will only play to Bush's core base of pantywaists who are afraid of their own shadows IMO.

[terrya]

5. You know, of course, this is going to be topic A on the Sunday morning...

shows. Russert, Schieffer, etc, are going to dwell big time on this.

I don't think it matters, though. We're aleady honing our message.