The Dems just have to say that Al Qaeda endorses McCain.

Goddamn it - if we're going to pay attention to Al Qaeda every time we have a fucking election then just register the motherfuckers to vote and get it over with.

I'm sick of terrorists having an effect on the outcome of our elections.

The Obama Campaign is already flipping to the tab in the Contingency Binder for their response when the McCain Camp goes batshit on this.

John

And don't forget the McCain campaign's reasoning after the al-Qaeda message board semi-endorsement

" 'Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,' said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the 'failing march of his predecessor,' President Bush."

They said that they were trying reverse-psychology. So then the question is, what is this? More reverse psychology? The fact that this "denouncement" of the Republicans is public while the announcement of "support" was on a password-protected site might be a point of argument that they would, in fact, rather have a Republican in office. Denounce publically just like they did with Bush, but say privately that they'd prefer McCain win.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102477.html?hpid=topnews

I'm so confused. First, al Qaeda endorses McCain. Now, it wants him humiliated... OH, WAIT, that's right... I don't give a sh-t what a bunch of fricking terrorists want me to do with my democracy!?!? So glad I just all of a sudden remembered that!

The ONE thing McCain's camp has been waiting for...the Al Qaida tape! That is, if they didn't give up waiting for the real thing and just made their own tape in someone's backyard somewhere in Arizona.

Any doubts McCain will spin this in his favor?

Victory for Obama/Democrats victory for the terrorists crap.

That Mofo would sell his 100 yr old mother butcher in Baghdad, if that's what it takes to win this election.

By the way, looking at the polls, it looks like his relentless negative sleaze campain may be gaining traction.

I mean....That Mofo would sell his 100 yr old mother to a butcher in Baghdad, if that's what it takes to win this election...I'm pissed.

Also, why does it feel like I'm on a rightwing nutjob website in the last 1day?

Extremely lame, intellectually bankrupt analysis of Obama's speech, cherry picking the polls to show McCain closing the gap and lame fuck headlines on the front page like "Qaida Leader: 'O God, Humiliate Bush And His Party'"

Are you just becoming giant concern trolls or did TPM shift political ID?

Sometimes I wonder if Republicans aren't allies with Al Qaida which explains why we haven't gone after them for the 9/11 attack. This statement is suspiciously too convenient for the Republican party. I can actually visualize Rove calling over there and saying, "release the statement." That man would make a deal with the devil to keep Republicans in power, and to keep the myth of his genius alive.
Now is when the choice of Biden as the VP candidate becomes important. Obama is ready for this.

I'm currently at work and don't have access to a tv...someone just called to tell me McCain is already talking about this Al Qaida "endorsement" in his speeches in Ohio today. One of the cable networks just showed it.

This is easy. When some al-Qaeda site said they prefer McCain to win the McCain campaign said it was reverse psychology. They pretty much can't attack on this, or else they essentially say that al-Qaeda actually wants THEM to win.

It seems like an Obama victory would take the wind out of Al Qaeda's sails to a large degree.

Is Joe the Terrorist going to attack a country, who just elected a man who's middle name is Hussein?

Maybe but there's a good chance that Obama will be an antidote to the "Death to America" types.

As it turns out, Abu Yahya al-Libi is not fake-Arabic for "Abu the Ya-ya Liberal", but is a real person. The Wikipedia entry on al-Libi includes a list of the dozens of videos he has put out, averaging about one per month of the past few years. Chances are, the tapes legit. When they show up in Drudge first, that's highly suspect, but Reuters is a reputable news source. Usually these videos are released to al-Jazeera, the Middle Eastern news source, but I find no mention of it there.

As a muslim, I can tell you that the Eid of Fitr was on 09/30/08. What were they waiting to release the tape?

It won't stick. Not this time, not this year!!!

This tape should be played as a reminder that bin Laden is still out there and 7 years of Repubicans' hunting him has gone nowhere.

"degrade and defy him"

That can be taken many ways.

Damn, McCain doesn't even rate getting his Al Qaeda reverse psychology boost from OBL. Osama pushed it off onto one of his flunkies. Now that's humiliating.

And don't give me that "Bin Laden couldn't do it himself 'cause he's dead" crap. So what if he's dead? It didn't stop Strom Thurman from carrying a full Senate load, so I don't see why it would stop Bin Laden from making videos.

The video message translated: Oh God, please help Bush's party and, if possible, also Bush himself, stay in power. They are such easy targets.

Hello all. I'm a lurker who seldom posts. I think one aspect of AQ's motives have been missed in the discussion. It is patently clear that they intend this to help the Republicans. But I think the motive is more complex than simple "recruitment." OBL has more sophisticated understanding of economics than many seem willing credit him with. He was a successful international construction magnate, a multi-millionaire, and has some understanding of international finance.

He has said repeatedly that one of his main goals is so weaken the US economy that it is unable to interfere in the Islamic world. He saw the devastating economic impact of the Soviet-Afghan war; indeed he credits that for the collapse of the Soviet Union a few years later. I think he wants the Republicans to win because he believes that continuing their economic and political policies will lead to a more rapid collapse of the US economic strength and thereby diminish its military strength as well.

I could be wrong. But I think AQ's reasoning is more complex than bleeding us Iraq and enriching their recruitment. Those are fringe benefits. He's a twisted motherfucker, but OBL thinks strategically.

Sorry about the double post. I got a message that said the server wasn't responding so I tried it again.