October Surprise: No Osama!
A Buzzflash Editorial

Our tinhorn Texas sheriff has failed spectacularly.
If ever there was a sign of Bush's failure to fight Al-Qaeda, it was the "October Surprise" of a gloating bin Laden videotape emerging late on a Friday afternoon.  Bush had promised in 2002 to get bin Laden "Dead or Alive" - and he failed.  After he failed to get bin Laden again, at Tora Bora, Bush claimed that bin Laden wasn't that important anyway.

Now bin Laden is back, when he should be behind bars.  And Karl Rove thinks bin Laden's reappearance should HELP Bush.  Yes, Rove is relying on primal, irrational fear to push undecided voters into the Bush "Kool-Aid-Jim-Jones" camp of voters.  Rove is hoping people will get such a Halloween fright that they will vote for Bush, even though Osama's tape only emphasizes Bush's failures.

Remember when everybody thought that the October surprise was that Bush would produce Osama in chains?  But we miscalculated on that one.  That would assume that Bush could actually succeed at something besides stealing an election.  And, indeed, with just a videotape of a boastful Osama to air, the Bush Cartel has sealed four years of failure with a nail that exemplifies their ineptitude at protecting us.

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