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Many people seem to think that the Democrats are a shoo-in to win the the US presidency in 2008, but I'm not so sure.
Neither Hillary or Obama are in any way Swift Boat proof and any of the gentlemen pictured (except the one with the beard) could easily end up occupying the White House. Impossible you say? Following Bush, unthinkable that a Republican could win? Think about it a little more.
The one with the beard, Osama bin Laden, has been doing very well with Republicans. Surely he would prefer another ugly, national security Republican as an adversary. He once told Robert Fisk that his main objective was to leave the United States "a shadow of itself"... The Republicans have done everything possible to oblige him, and in effect, the United States is now a shadow of its former self. Why would Osama, of all people, want to change?
With a simple video appearance he won the last election for Bush. This time it probably would take a bit more.
Imagine that either Giuliani or McCain were running against either Hillary or Obama and Al Qaeda pulled off another "big one" in the USA. I would be amazed if either of the above named Democrats could survive that, which is a very good reason to believe that Osama would choose that moment to attack.
Here in Madrid we have lived though exactly the same dynamic. Bin Laden saw that a few bombs at the right place and the right time would have the maximum effect and it did: the government fell and the Spanish troops were withdrawn from Iraq. Because this "alignment of the planets" has long been visible on the horizon, I would imagine that whatever Bin Laden has in mind has been long in preparation, at least three, perhaps more years. Its elements are already in place and simply "sleeping" waiting for the moment... which logically would come late in the presidential campaign... second half of October, I would imagine.
I think this is, if not a sure thing, extremely probable. The only Democrat that could possibly survive this would be Al Gore, and I'm not sure even he could. So all the the Democrats that think the presidency is like a ripe fruit ready to fall into their laps should think again. DS
4 comments:
So you are really a PP supporter? "The gvt fell" vs "They lied" and "Were implicated by delivering the explosives" is quite a spin on the real story. Why don't you write about that, you're quite at the source aren't you?
I think most people would also find it hard to understand why US-Americans are allowed to kill a million muslims and shouldn't expect any retribution for their evil deeds.
PP? Not at all. Spain was obviously the weakest link of the Azores "gang". The immense majority of Spaniards were against the war and resented Aznar's autistic arrogance. Also, with a large Magrebi population, open frontiers because of tourism and the police devoted (thanks to PP) to exclusively watching ETA, Spain was the easiest. With the election coming the synergies were obvious... to everybody but the government. What happened was that everybody was sick of the government, but the attack brought out the abstentionists. In Spain when everybody votes the right always loses. The left's biggest enemy is always abstention, not the right which is only about 25% of the population, but who always vote, down to last 90 year old nun.
I think your readers would appreciate something on this whole matter. It's really hard to follow since the commercial media outside of Spain never really reported stuff like the 13th bomb or the three undercover agents provocateurs. Obviously this whole atrocity is a highly ugly affair for everybody in Spain, isn't it?
It is especially ugly for all the people who suffered it. Several years ago, my work took me to Toledo from Monday through Friday and I had to take those same dawn trains every morning, filled with sleepy eyed working people on their way to make a living (I was just another one of them). So for me it is personal, my empathy with the vicitms is total... As far as I am concerned I was on those trains. I really resent the way some people are playing politics with the bombings. If you are one of them, you've come to the wrong blog.
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