OBL in the Hizzle

So Osama is still alive and getting on the campaign trail. I'm not sure what I think of this whole scenario. First off, its pretty evident he's not living in a cave somewhere communicating via smoke signals. His tape menions a great deal of current events which disturbs me. You had to kind of expect an appearance. I mean its like watching a Ben Affleck movie and just waiting to see Matt Damon walk in for some unnecessary cameo. The troubling thing was just that it now has to have an impact in the election. I mean this guy should be still running for his life, why has he made more movies than Ron Howard? I thought he was sick, I thought he was on the run, I thought he could "run but he couldn't hide". Well guess what, it doesn't seem like he having to run or hide too much and its PISSING ME OFF! For crying out loud, how do we solve this problem? I mean for real people, its just a little obnoxious, and quite embarrassing to have some ghost still taunting Americans.

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All this crap reminds me of something pretty critical that hasn't been talked about much.
This guy Capt. Josh Rushing was on NPR yesterday. Its a great listen. He was a press officer stationed at CENTCOM. He was later assigned to the world wide media including Al Jazeera (the infamous anti-american news network), on the war in Iraq. How much experience did he have with Iraq? ZERO! How much Arabic did he speak? ZERO! He apparently learned as much as he could about IRAQ on the plane over seas reading a "for Dummies" book. He was also prominantly pictured in Control Room , a documentary on the perception of America in Iraq. Why hasn't America made a concious effort to explain, explain, expain and sell, sell, sell the actions of America in that region to Al Jazeera? I know I know, many people might say this is shit because Al Jazeera obviously has biases (one of which being that its famous for less than love for America). It does no good, however, to push the American agenda on TV networks that:
1. America propped up and has NO legitimacy in the Arab world.
2. Only support the war effort at home (BBC, FoxNews, CNN).

My opinion is that the US must improve communications with Al Jazeera to get more rebuttles to the attacks they make against the US. That is the only legitimate news source to the Arab world in that region! And when I say legitimate, I mean the ONLY network repected by the people in the middle east. THEY DONT WATCH FOX NEWS!!!
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The real question is, was he saying that voting for Bush would be in his interest or voting for Kerry would be? It seemed like there was a hint that they'd love Bush because he's just like dealing with leaders of other states in that region. But at the same time, that could have been intentional to provoke a reaction by the people. So, what's the impact in the election? Well if the people know he wants them to vote for Bush, will they change their mind to be defiant? Wouldn't OBL know that Americans would do the exact opposite of what he suggested, so he'd plan for that too? Will Americans be a little bit more than annoyed that Bin Laden is making movies while we are losing in Iraq and vote for change? Will the people be reminded of 9/11 and vote Bush for the agressiveness of his war on terror? I guess the real question is does this matter in Florida, Ohio, or Penn? I live in the DC beltway so we always take this stuff much more seriously than everyone else in the country does. So how will this affect those three states since according to all the pundits (whatever they know)? Pretty pathetic that something as menacing as this video really only matters with regard to the election outcome not the potential for another attack which it seems like noone is really worried about. I am going to a football game tomorrow, and voting on tuesday and I'm just annoyed that I have to worry about the stadium blowing up, voting precincts being destroyed, or a train being hijacked and blown up (see Madrid). Its a scary world and its just a shame.

PS-My pick is that Bush gets the election on this video (which is sick). I'd love to be wrong.