How will capturing Bin Laden help Bush get elected?

[Lostmessage]

Isn't anyone going to question him about what took so long.

We all know that he has Bin Laden in hiding and they are waiting to bring him out for the October surprise but how can that help * get elected.

I don't get it.

Can someone explain it to me why anyone would want * in the white house for 4 more years.

[morgan2]

1. everyone will be happy

and feel that bush has made them safe. He'll be called a hero for the next 2 months constantly on tv.

[bowens43]

2. there will be no questions

and Bush will elevated to the status of savior right along side of Jesus in the minds of a large percentage of Americans. Don't kid yourself, the country is very evenly split. Even if Bin Laden isn't found this will be a very , very close election maybe even a repeat of 2000.

[gold_bug]

3. they will use it

as "proof" that Bush is tough on terror. The media will pump it up, it will empower Bush and the Repubs, they will use it to energize and rally people behind them, and they will not hesitate to use it to steamroll the opposition and critics.

But I'm skeptical that OBL will be caught before then.

[DODI]

4. Saddam capture = increase deaths in Iraq.

What would OBL capture equal? Also, it is hard to celebrate when you are either unemployed or have your take home pay cut by not having overtime. It is not all about OBL.

[FreeperSlayer]

5. Sheeple Factor

left is right, up is down, black is white, 'Yes O Glorious Leader'

[AlinPA]

17. And with $200M to spend on the broadcast media, Rove & Co. would

make him out like a hero. IMO, people in the US get their news and opinions from TV and radio.

[indepat]

6. It will show what a courageous and resourceful leader and commander-

in-chief he is. Wise, dogged, and determined too. At least to the sheeple.

[Nihil]

7. Money. Power. Bush appeals to greed and ignorance.

> Isn't anyone going to question him about what took so long.

He'll probably blame it on all of the intelligence failures ...
(Tenet "the Cat" must still have at least six lives left.)

> Can someone explain it to me why anyone would want * in the white
> house for 4 more years.

A lot of people definitely want Bu$h in the WH for four more years.
Halliburton. Bechtel. US media companies. Oil. Pharmaceuticals.
Arms manufacturers. Republican politicians (and their staffs).
Many Democrat politicians (and their staffs) by their actions anyway.
NASA. DoD. FBI. CIA. TSA. TIA. ...

The families of people in the above categories (and many more) that
need their personal income to continue.

The Repub graduates heading for their father's boardrooms.

The next generation heading for the casino on Wall Street.

Bankers. Preachers.

The list of people who have gained from the Bu$h administration is
not as small as you would like and almost every one will persuade
friends, relatives and neighbours to ignore the spiteful Democrats,
nassty cheating Democratsss, we hatess them precioussss.

Nihil

[SheilaT]

8. If Osama is "captured"

any time soon, the news will fade and won't matter by November. But if Osama is "captured" about 72 hours before the election, it will be all over the news, completely obliterating any coverage of the Democratic nominee, or anything else that is occurring in this country or the world.

Among the things that should be done in helping shape the coming campaign, is not to get trapped in believing that the capture of Osama has any meaning at all. There are many other issues that need to be kept in the forefront, no matter who the nominee is: the economy, the wrongness of the war in Iraq, the enriching of Bush's rich friends, the lack of accountability on the part of the people who ran Enron. There are others, of course.

[0007]

9. junior hopes that it will fire up the crowd like an old class 'B'

Western cowboy movie where the good guy always wear the white hat.

The mentality level is the issue.

[bushisanidiot]

10. It Won't Help.

the voters know that they were duped on Iraq because AWOL lied to them. cheney's halliburton has been in the news daily, today a new invenstigation into "kick backs" when cheney was still in charge..

no way will the voters get fooled again.

[buckeye1]

11. Agreed.

n/t

[OneTwentyoNine]

12. It wouldn't until Whore TV pimped it for him 100 times a day till Nov....

[TomNickell]

13. A blip in the polls.

Like the capture of S. Hussein, only less. There will be a big bolus of favorable gushing press coverage. But it will quickly be apparent that nothing really has changed.

If it happens right before the election, it will look like a stunt.

[KayLaw]

14. Don't you wonder where he is?

I know it's anyone's guess, but remember when Cheney's neighbors were reporting all those blasts coming the VP's residence? Did he ever deign to say what he was building under there?

[bryant69]

15. Well All know that Bush has Bin Ladin in Hiding?

Is this like when Republicans said "We all know that Clinton had Vince Foster Rubbed out (despite the lack of any evidence)?"

Just asking

Bryant
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[isbister]

16. I think the candidates should

be talking about this in every speech they make. Something like:

Osama bin Laden has been on the loose for two and a half years. Evidence points to his co-ordinating attacks against our allies and having a hand in the attacks on our soldiers in Iraq. It would be wise to assume that he is planning another attack on against the United States.

My question, the question every American needs to ask of President Bush, is why has bin Laden been allowed to roam free for all of these years and why is he still on the loose? Even if bin Laden were caught tomorrow, this President will have allowed bin Laden two and a half years to plot and plan for al Qaeda's future without him.

With (your-favorite-candidate's-name-here) as President, the terrorists, the American people, and the world will know my commitment will be more than the empty promises this President has given us. I will bring the murderers of innocent Americans to justice.

or something like that.

[Wapsie B]

18. Exactly,

That needs to be how we frame the OBL situation. You just know he's either going to be "captured" or turn up dead before the election.

[OneTwentyoNine]

20. Yep,they should but have they?

These guys need to really get on the ball and heavily question Bush and his tactics. Sure,there's the "We can do better" type of stump speech but they need to nail Chimpboys ass to the floorboards.

Of course this like most of Chimpboys other stunts is so rigged on the timing its just silly. Bush wouldn't have wanted UBL caught last year if he would have walked up the steps of the WH with hands behind his back. Nope...way,way to early for the sheep to keep in their tiny brain cells till Nov 04.

Much better to spend a year in invading/looting Iraq and then conveniently find UBL right before the election.

The Dems need to scream from the rooftops on how we wasted a year invading Iraq under false pretenses all the while UBL has been on the loose. He's the real threat,not SH.

David

[isbister]

21. Graham was all over it when he was running n/t

[July]

22. and talking about the rash of predictions we're hearing

What is up with that? How many different people have made this strong assertion that we WILL catch bin Laden THIS YEAR? I count at least three (Grassley, some general, and Limbaugh).

I think that just getting it out there -- "We haven't heard much about OBL in months, Bush himself said it wasn't a priority to find him, and now we're getting claims of great certainty that we'll catch him" -- will raise Wag the Dog questions and prevent a big poll bounce for Bush.

And when/if OBL is caught, the question will be, for me, at least, "so Afghanistan is free, when are the troops coming home?"

[Cooley Hurd]

19. The consesus of the American public...

...is that this administration will do anything to get re-elected. If Osama is captured anywhere near election day, it'll be viewed as suspect...