[boots]

Just because I like watching the reaction to this kind of thing, I thought I'd submit this for everyone to pick apart. It's an op-ed, and it definitely goes over the hyperbole top...so don't flame me as the messenger...I don't present this as a realistic portrayal...but the final statements are kind of interesting.

the Arabian Candidate

[BRussell]

Yeah I read that this morning. You can tell that Bush really gets under Krugman's skin. He used to be a mild mannered center-left economist.

Even though it's obviously crass, the bumper sticker brought up in that other thread: "Kerry is Osama bin Laden's man, President Bush is mine," really is the key issue in our upcoming election. Or to put it another way, "Who would Osama vote for?" (Actually shouldn't that be "For whom would Osama vote?") It's the key issue because it raises the question of whether Bush's policies have been right for the "war on terror." Sure, Bush has been unafraid of using the military in the Middle East, and for that reason people have just assumed that Bush is the best anti-terrorism candidate. But just because you bomb Arabs doesn't mean your policies are good for US national security.

And I'm also looking forward to the remake of that movie.

[voyageur]

He has a point. From all I've read, the number of young people interested in training with Al Qaeda has increased over the last year and a half. Bush is one of the best recruiting tools Al Qaeda has ever had.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by voyageur:
He has a point. From all I've read, the number of young people interested in training with Al Qaeda has increased over the last year and a half. Bush is one of the best recruiting tools Al Qaeda has ever had.

No, people like M. Moore is one of their greatest recruiting tools. People like Bush is somebody terrorists despise and fear.

If people want to join al-qaeda, good for them, the idiots will probably end up dead.

[Spliffdaddy]

al quaeda will meet its doom. After all, they're a bunch of lightweights compared to some rednecks I know.

al quaeda will just kill you. with a straight face.

rednecks will play around with you first, laugh about it, then kill you.

We're lucky that most rednecks can't afford airfare.

[boots]

Originally posted by Spliffdaddy:
al quaeda will meet its doom. After all, they're a bunch of lightweights compared to some rednecks I know.

al quaeda will just kill you. with a straight face.

rednecks will play around with you first, laugh about it, then kill you.

We're lucky that most rednecks can't afford airfare.

House of 1000 Corpses comes to mind....

[lil'babykitten]

Originally posted by boots:
the Arabian Candidate

Interesting analysis, stupid offensive title. As if Al-Queda is representative of the whole of the Arab world.

[doctorkeyser]

Originally posted by BRussell:
"For whom would Osama vote?"

Well, I think the answer to this question is obvious. Osama would vote for Bush. Granted, Clinton didn't even really try to go after this guy, and was a failure of a president because of it. But you'd have to think that Osama feels pretty safe with the bumbling way Bush let him go...because Dubbya actually tried to get him with the full force of the US military, and fell flat on his face doing so.

Who knows how successful or unsuccessful Kerry would be in that pursuit? We can only speculate. Almost 3 years have gone by, and the news is still full of "Osama bin Laden is reportedly planning...." Osama probably doesn't want to speculate about a new guy. He's happy right where he is.