Were you surprised that there wasn't an October surprise?

[SoonerPride]

Did you think or fear that we would bomb Iran, reveal a new Osama tape, institute martial law, or some other such whacky October surprise?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. they tried. many times. but nothing took root and nothing made sense.

it was as though America was tired of those tricks and simply ignored them.

[SoonerPride]

4. They had little things. But I really thought W or Israel would bomb Iran.

I would have put money on it back in August.

Seriously.

[CJCRANE]

14. I read somewhere

that they simply couldn't afford it due to the financial crisis.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. there were rumors of serious pushback from the military.

not enough bodies, not enough boots for the bodies, not enough body bags, etc.

and no plan except that crap concocted by Darth Cheney. And we know what a brilliant military leader he is.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Well they did blow up something like 200 or so Pakistanis

on the off chance that one of them would be bin Laden, so it wasn't for lack of trying.

[CatBO]

3. I was expecting the Bin Laden tape until this morning...

I sincerely was expecting another Bin Laden tape, or another attempt at an attack, something. I was surprised when I woke up this morning and nothing materialized.

Thank goodness.

[CJCRANE]

5. The "financial 9/11" was their last big op nt

[olkaz]

6. WE were the October surprise.

The surprise is that we really listened to Obama and decided that the old tricks wouldn't work this time.

[SoonerPride]

8. I like that answer.

Very nice!

[Lilith Velkor]

7. Uh, there was one.

Economy fall down & go boom...remember?

[SoonerPride]

10. Well, yes, but that wasn't designed by and for the GOP.

I just knew that they'd do something to scare or frighten the sheeple.

Maybe whwne the stock market imlpoded that scared enough sheeple anyway, but it wasn't what they wanted to do and it certainly wan't on purpose.

At least I don't think so.

[Lilith Velkor]

15. Maybe it was.

The Bush administration could fuck up a cup of coffee, you know.

[AFSCME girl]

9. I thought for sure

there would be a Bin Laden tape........

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. If you look at there were actually a lot of mini-"October Surprises"

But they all HURT the Republicans. Consider:


1.)Bill Ayers: Epic fail. Found to have had links to plenty of well-respected Republicans as well as to Obama and other Democrats and Independents and all during present day and NOT during his violent anti-war activism- when Obama was 8 years old.
2.) Debate #3: Obama won the third debate (all three of them actually) handily even among independents and increased his poll margin
3.) Ashley Todd: MAJOR HOAX apparently perpetrated by a group of College Republicans or at least a very sick McCain supporter (oh but if it had only been true)
4.) Joe The Plumber: A FRAUD -who wasn't "vetted" properly and turned out to be somebody who isn't an "independent" voter, who was planning to vote for McCain anyway, who doesn't have an active plumber license, owes back taxes, is nowhere near having enough money to purchase a plumbing company, somebody who would actually benefit from Obama's tax plan, and, most importantly, isn't even named JOE. Despite all of this, he has been shamelessly exploited by the McCain/Palin campaign and he in turn has exploited his place in the limelight to advance his own "career" and to help McCain smear Obama)
5.) "Auntiegate": Feds are looking into this one to see who leaked the information. Gee, WHO could it possibly have been?
6.) Dick Cheney's public "endorsement" of McCain/Palin: The political "kiss of death" as far as I'm concerned. McBush did NOT need this.

To be evenhanded, I DO think Obama made at least one major "gaffe" during the past month that might have hurt him, at least slightly:

Obama's use of the phrase "spread the wealth" which seemed to launch the whole JTP "phenomenon". As with Kerry's "terrorist nuisance" comment in 2004 Obama's comment was another one those dangerously misquotable comments that always seems to get hyper-magnified and distorted beyond all recognition by right-wingers. WE all know what Obama is talking about and don't honestly believe for one second that by electing Obama we will be ushering in an end to our capitalist system (fat chance of that) but the right-wingers seem to live for raking us over the coals for ANY comments that suggest that we should have more economic fairness in our country. It was an inartful comment by him IMHO but thankfully it doesn't appear to have done any significant damage to him AFAIK.

[NoPasaran]

12. In Soviet Russia you surprise October!

[olkaz]

13. I lol'ed - thanks

[all.of.me]

16. I was thinking they would extend it to a November surprise.

And it ain't over yet!