Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.
And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best suited to continue that trend.
“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.
The Web commentary was one of several posted by Taliban or al-Qaeda-allied groups in recent days that trumpeted the global financial crisis and predicted further decline for the United States and other Western powers. In language that was by turns mocking and ominous, the newest posting credited al-Qaeda with having lured Washington into a trap that had “exhausted its resources and bankrupted its economy.” It further suggested that a terrorist strike might swing the election to McCain and guarantee an expansion of U.S. military commitments in the Islamic world.
The terrorists have won.
No person can be accused of wrongdoing because of the opinion of them from others.
McCain’s not a jerk because Al Qeida says anything up or down about him. He’s earned that status the old fashioned way. By being it.
Do people really think that terrorist organizations really care who becomes the president of the USA? Do people really think that if their candidate wins, the terrorist would stop terrorizing people? Are the people of the USA that ignorant?
#26 – contmpt – McCain himself has saved the country 6 billion in wasteful military spending so that leads one to believe that the military spending can be cut some more and still provide the best equipment and personal. It is not the size of the budget that matters but how you use the money.
I’d guess that terrorists know who they want to have as enemy number one, if it were up to them.
So if they pick someone, are they actually trying to get him/her into power? Or do they understand that they are §#¡†#€@∂§ in everybody’s eyes so they nominate the the foe they fear the most, trying reverse psych?
Terrorists are fearful people. And they think fear effectively produces change. What we need is completely unpredictable change.
Bush, however, was entirely predictable. So is that little √erk, McCain.
#38, Lyin’ Mike,
It’s not too hard to find evidence of Obama campaigning for Odinga, or the government’s complaints about such, since they thought they were getting a routine visit.
If it isn’t too hard then why can’t you find any? Just because someone with an ax to grind writes it down on a piece of paper and publishes it does not make it a fact. To be accepted it must be verifiable or recorded by an uninterested party.
But don’t waste your time looking. Read this. They used several, reputable sources, to verify the story.
So this is just another one of your bull shit lies Mike. Do you understand how you got your reputation yet?
#41, contempt,
Ahh the old transfer of guilt ploy. Since we know Obama is guilty of having many despicable friends what better diversion than to accuse and lie about McCain.
Well, let’s see who McCain has actually hired for his campaign staff.
He pals around with Rick Davis, a lobbyist who took money from terrorist Georgia. Not only was he telling the terrorists the US would back them, he is McCain’s campaign manager. And he was still taking Georgian money while working for McCain.
A good pal is Phil Gramm, who re-wrote the finance laws that have benefited terrorists money raising. He is also know as McCain’s economic advisor and expected to receive the Treasury Secretary job if McCain becomes President. BTW, the bill Gramm got through Congress is largely responsible for the current “financial melt down”.
Then there is William Timmons who actually lobbied for Saddam Hussein. You remember him don’t you? He is the guy that responsible for that little ruckus in the Mid-East.
How about Randa Fahmy Hudome, a lobbyist for Libya while they were still on the terrorist watch list.
How about Randy Scheunemann? You remember him don’t you? In 2007, Sen. Lautenberg introduced a gun control bill that would have prohibited gun sales to suspected terrorists. Well McCain’s top foreign policy advisor was the leading lobbyist fighting the bill.
Doug Goodyear, who has left McCain, lobbied for “Burma”. A retched Military dictatorship ruin of a country that prefers to be called Mynamar.
Tom Loeffler, who lobbied for one of the most brutal regimes in the Mid-East, a country who supplied 16 of the 9/11 hijackers, a country that still chops off the heads of criminals and stone women, Saudi Arabia. The same Loeffler that is co-chair of McCain’s finance committee.
We can’t forget Charlie Black. The main China Oil Company lobbyist in Washington. Black is currently a senior advisor to McCain.
*
Then we have Bill Ayers. A man who has apologized for the wrong he did 40 years ago. A man Obama met while serving on a volunteer committee working for a higher goal of educating inner city kids. Also serving on the same committee were several prominent Republicans. Someone Obama is not close to and has never hired or worked with.
So, what is that “old transfer of guilt ploy” again?
#43 bac
>>It is not the size of the budget that matters but how you use the money.
Agreed, for politicians too much is never enough. Budgets have grown excessive mainly because of fraud and the welfare state.
McCain is the one who is fiscally responsible as his record indicates. Obama on the other hand is Mr Pork and no matter what he says is just another wasteful Washington politician.
Vote using the correct motivation: Who will benefit you the most? Using that motivation, the achievers and those who value freedom will vote McCain. The rest go to Obama.
Unfortunately it’s likely that Obama will win, which means the country will go completely to shit and deservedly so.
Wow Fusion, your own debunking link endorses what I wrote. Do you even read your own links?
It acknowledges Obama’s appearance with Odinga. It also says Odinga claimed Obama to be his cousin. I never claimed Obama is a Muslim so the debunking of that fact is irrelevant.
contempt said: “It was pure democratic party corruption from start to finish and to say other wise is disingenuous.”
Absolutely. And they also throw puppies into wood chippers.
#51 QB
>>they also throw puppies into wood chippers.
Puppies… maybe? Anyone that may pose a real or perceived threat to the Obamanation, absolutely.
Al Qaeda no more endorses McCain than Hamas endorses Obama.
These organizations want nothing more than to confuse Americans. Apparently, they have been very successful with the right leaning ones already and think they can do it again. The truth is they don’t care which person gets elected. They know because of George W. Bush that this country is in for and currently in an economic crisis. All they hope is that the next President over reacts to what ever nonsense they start up.
If it is Obama this probably won’t happen because he is calm an collected.
If it is McCain there is no doubt that he will over react as demonstrated by his demeanor throughout this campaign.
#50, Idiot Lyin’ Mike,
Wow Fusion, your own debunking link endorses what I wrote. Do you even read your own links?
For fucks sake, obviously you didn’t read the link. It specifically said Obama has never met your father. They spoke on the phone for five minutes maximum. Obama never said a word in support of your daddy. There is no evidence to support your daddy’s claim that he is related to obama. Sorry, you’ll have to find a blood line to Obama some other way.
So go ahead, just like I originally challenged you. Provide a citation to back up your claim. You can’t do it because it is bull shit. You must really hate it when you get called on your bull shit.
#51, QB,
Puppies? Puppies are useful. Try kittens.
Hello ACORN, I need to change my vote.
We know if we endorse someone you’ll be less likely to vote for them.
But, devious bastards that we are, we know that you know that we know that if we endorse someone you’ll be less likely to vote for them.