Well, guess what, any Party that wins the election will have fringe crazies that start saying they deserve power – and normally don’t get it. Ayers, Wright, and Dohrn have as much chance as a rattlesnake-handling Fundie did under Bush getting in charge of Justice or a Christian militia member did of getting DOD.
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Alexis:
Of course al-Qaeda is planning a new gigantic attack on the United States soon. It’s the usual hazing ritual where al-Qaeda takes the measure of a new president by committing yet another massive unforgivable atrocity against Americans.
First 1993. Then 2001. 2009 won’t be a surprise.
Alexis makes stupid use of statistics that show no correlation between small (as real war goes) terror attacks and any timing that they only happen to “test new leaders”. Most have happened when a President or PM is well seated in power, for many years.
Surviving leaders caught and interrogated (93 bombers, Khalid Shekh Mohammed) say that they attacked on only one timing consideration: When They Were Ready
KSM conceived of 9/11 in ’98 and had orginally hoped to get it done in the summer of 2000, but decided that he could not count on recruiting reliable Arab, Indonesian commercial or military pilots and had to get 4-5 committed AQ members trained from scratch. Even then, he did not trust the “muscle” – the 15 non-pilots – so they were (his original Indonesians replaced by Binnie with Saudis to embarass the monarchy) – never told it was a martyrdom mission, just a dangerous hijacking where it would be necessary to kill crew and passengers who resisted.
And of course, we have Whiskey, now locked into being a DEBKA Hysteric, warning us that some goatherder in Yemen is bragging the “Next Big Attack” is coming. After which the poor boy does his 500th: “We’re doomed! We’re doomed now! The Islamofascists will win! Game over, man! They will have won if they kill a dozen someday….because any casualties, and we are defeated…That is why we have to be perfect everday as Beloved Maximum Leader and New Churchill President Bush was.
Now Obama is elected.
We’re Doomed I tell you! Doomed!
Whiskey, take a big chill pill.
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vb:
I can’t believe that a Gorelick appointment won’t produce some backlash from families of 9/11 victims and from law enforcement people. If the backlash is early enough and loud enough, it could give The One second thoughts.
The Era of the 9/11 Families and “Hero” cops having unlimited moral authority and through Victimhood, a voice greater than all other Americans in “terror stuff” is over. Long over, and it should have been over even sooner.
Same with the “Victim Families” of Iraq somehow having “victim mothers” like Cindy Shaheen feeling entitled to dictate to us all from “unlimited moral authority”.
For that matter, we gave far too much deference to John McCain and the Cult of the POW than we should have. Creating the Cult was one of the sadly enduring bad achievements of Nixon, amidst his better ones, because it has lasted so long and shaped public perception that a POW is a hero on level of a Medal of Honor winner or a rock star because they “suffered at the hands of the enemy”. Whereas Nixon deliberately ignored the maimed and disabled by the enemy as unfortunately not politically resonating with the public the way a kidnap victim or a “soldier in captivity” resonated in focus group studies, so he did not push “recovering in a VA hospital with two limbs gone” bracelets and had no brass bands awaiting the casualties.
