As we head into the final weekend before a U.S. election, I’ve been waiting for the now standard “Death to America, but vote for Bush” video from our favorite Jihadist, Osama bin Laden.
After all, how better to scare the American people into voting Republican than with a grainy video featuring the enemy — a man the leader of the Republican party has so far been unable to catch. I’ll be disappointed if I can’t tune into FOX News on Monday night for non-stop coverage of a new Osama tape with Sean Hannity slapping the two pieces of flesh on his face together repeatedly about how an Osama tape spells disaster for America if Jim Webb (D) defeats George Allen (R[ascist]-VA) in Tuesday’s election?
You won’t hear it on CNN, but we all know Bush NEEDS an Osama tape to come out. In the biology world, we call it mutual parasitism. When an organism attacks another, but does not kill its victim because both need each other to remain alive. Without Osama to scare people, Bush only has Iraq — a diversion, not a safeguard measure — and that’s not going to win him any votes.
Whether Osama comes out with a new hit tape or not, it is the ensuing discussion that leaves me shaking my head. Neo-cons, most of the Bush administration, President Cheney, Vice President Rumsfeld, and everyone at Fox News except Alan Colmes would have you believe that Americans are so weak that we run with our tails between our legs to the party of demonstrated corruption every time a Jihadist threatens us. That we are swayed by threats, unable think for ourselves in the wake of 9/11 and a disastrous war in Iraq.
And that’s the very core of the issue isn’t it? Americans can make sound decisions. We have decided that an ill-planned invasion having nothing to do with the war on terror is a clear indication of poor leadership. We’ve decided that in order to be safe, we need to engage the entire world in productive ways and not through black and white filters and childish labels. Americans have decided that the charge of keeping us safe from terrorism does not double as a permission slip to remove civil liberties from the Constitution. We think national debts don’t go away by handing money to your biggest political donors while allowing multi-billion dollar fraudulent defense contracts to proliferate.
Yeah, America does not run, we fight. And the biggest fight of my generation will be on display this coming Tuesday. Go out and vote.
rob
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It’s great to read this now, with Tuesday passed and the good news out. Thank goodness all of the momentum and hope we felt was… real. Thank you, America, for waking up