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.
Now that is just silly.
WOULDN’T THE TERRORRISTS ANNOUNCE THE OPPOSITE PERSON THAT THEY’D WANT TO WIN? OR WOULD THEY PICK THE OPPOSITE OPPOSITE TO THROW US OFF?
And if you believe that I have this bridge…
Great proof that the democrats are whistling down jackass alley. Lies are all that remain.
Wow did you post this so it doesn’t look like you’re too republican / from your last post?
I demand to know why McCain is paling around with Al-Qaeda. This is a VERY serious turn of events.
This is slightly more scandalous than the RNC shelling out $150K for Palin lipstick and tampons.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081022/pl_politico/14805
Re “al-Qaeda” — I like the way small distinctions must have their own labels. Remove a specific religion from the equation and you get:
“or is it just a general term for anti-American fundamentalists” and that pretty much describes the Republican Party.
Amusing.
#7 bobbo
Come on bobbo you’re losing it. You can turn truth to lie by switching a word in any sentence.
Amusing.
If this is true…they want Americans to do the opposite of that which they recommend/endorse…so, they are HOPING they’ll vote for Obama…nice try.
The terrorists have won? Only if you’re unintelligent enough to believe this, which I wouldn’t put past the editors around here.
Thirteen more days until the election. It is going to feel like a year.
@contempt, i am confused. are you saying that al queda’s endorsement didn’t happen?
is the washington post lying? al queda? or al-hesbah?
i mean g.w. bush couldn’t stop al queda and mccain has said he’ll follow the same tactics, he’ll get the same result.
#4 Yes there is is an Al-Qaeda. Which translates to The List or The Base depending on who you ask. It was orginally made up of folks that went to Afghanistan to fight with Afghan rebels against the USSR. Now it pretty much means a loosely affiliated groups of Islamic nut jobs that think of Osama Bin Laden as their grand poobaa.
And Hamas has endorsed Obama, only their they are going off of Obama’s actions and statements.
#17 grog
That’s funny, I don’t recall saying any of that mindless drivel. I can only conclude those fantasies spring from your fertile mind.
Or as the old saying goes about such tactics, “You got your dirt in my ditch.”
“John McCain endorsed by Al-Qaeda”
If we truly had a “liberal media” in this country, that phrase would be plastered across every newspaper front page and would be getting reported on 24/7 by every network.
“John McCain endorsed by Al-Qaeda”
If we truly had a “liberal media” in this country, that phrase would be plastered across every newspaper front page and would be on every network 24/7.
Isn’t it wonderful how these primatives enjoy their day in the sun. Wait 30 years and thanks to alternative energies, these countries will go back to being dirt poor. Nobody’ll give damn what they rant about and I doubt they’ll have many rich friends to help them out. Sort of like Cuba but without the european tourist trade.
McCane good man.
#26 point well taken.
shame they had to sell out the entire nation to the chinese to get it done.
coulda sold war bonds to americans. we would have gladly pitched in. it wouldn’t be a tax hike, and it would have kept that money right here.
but that’s for another thread. good debate, sir. that was fun.
#28 grog
You are too kind – I look forward to another rousing debate at the Dvorak site of facts and fantasy.
Whatever happened the the BS Meter?
#29, Contempt,
And will you be participating on the fact side or again vomiting the mindless drivel of the neo-cons?
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McCain is backed by the terrorists. Unrepentant terrorists. Enemies of America and the free. world. Way to go McCain.
#E32 Don’t forget Odinga in Kenya. Obama went and campaigned for him against the pro-US existing leadership, the guy still lost, and he proceeded to stage an Islamist coup.
#34, Lyin’ Mike,
#E32 Don’t forget Odinga in Kenya. Obama went and campaigned for him
I must have forgotten. Please give us a link to where that happened. You do know you have quite the reputation about making this crap up.
McCain’s a √erk. Always has been. 4th from the bottom of his class at Annapolis. Crashes three airplanes with direct personal responsibility for that. Panics in a crisis. Can’t dodge missiles every other pilot finds easy to elude. Gets drunk and flies and wrecks a plane. Dumps his first wife because she got in a car crash and was disfigured (even though she waited for him during his prisoner of war incarceration). Caves in under torture (Not a fault. Just a fact). Hangs out a lot with Keating and crew, benefitting from it left and right. Forms the Straight Talk Express then abandons all sense of straight talk once nominated. Hugs Bush. Votes for Bushian policies over 88% of the time. Picks feckless Palin as his first act as presidential nominee. Clouds the issue of health with a blizzard of no-you-can’t-verify-any-of-this disclosures. Accuses Obama of palling around with a terrorist guy he barely knew. Accuses Obama of calling Palin a lipsticked pig. Accuses Biden of causing/inviting a crisis…
Surprise. I’ve been running my voice/emotion stress analyzer on Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin and neutral folk like book interviews and news folk.
Obama is talking straight. Rarely is deception indicated and only for a second or two.
Biden is talking mostly straight. Deception is low.
McCain is lying his ass off. It’s hard to find ten seconds of continuous truth. Rarely is he talking straight.
Palin is clearly aware that her rhetoric is bogus. The pig.
Interestingly, when McCain/Palin are with Brian Williams (clearly speaking unstressed) they tone it down by 75%.
The clincher: Clip on the web: Obama is speaking (unstressed, truthful) and mentions how McCain has made a bad call on an issue. The crowd starts to Booo! Obama quickly raises his hand and says “Hey! We don’t need that. We only need you to vote.” …then gets immediately back to the issue.
McCain talks to a group. It is OBVIOUS that he lives to mention Obama in a way that solicits Boooooo Booooooos. He is working the crowd to produce negative feedback.
What a ∂µƒµ≤!
What a √erk.
What a §#¡π #€@∂ !
Yes I have that reputation because you constantly like to make such a claim. Then I post a link and you either go scurrying or try to come up with some sort of nonsense as to why that link doesn’t count. 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.
#37
I ran my sentence analyzer over your post and detected so much stress/ emotional distress in your piece that that the readout was: “unmistakable confabulation and hot air”. If Obama is not having a stress reaction to his own lies, it demonstrates that he can no longer distinguish between truth and bs. That’s a really bad sign – all politicians lie, but to believe your own lies is a sign of personality disorder.
#39. Yes, I’m upset with McCain. But you’re saying that the stress analyzer was lying to me when it reads the horse’s mouth?
BS.
Your analyzer is hung up on form, not substance.
#31 Mr Fusion
>>McCain is backed by the terrorists.
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.
Sorry your transparent attempt at reassigning guilt won’t work on the thinking class.