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A Kerry Endorsement.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Election '04: Last week's release of the Osama bin Laden tape provided some startling insight into the Kerry-Edwards campaign. What we saw is a disgrace.
Itching to make political hay, the Democracy Corps, which works side by side with Kerry-Edwards, took a poll to learn what the Democrats should say about bin Laden's comments.
Why this was even necessary is beyond us. We can only surmise that this is the sort of Clintonesque, finger-in-the-wind leadership that a Kerry presidency would provide. Which is to say, no leadership at all.
But what else can we say about bin Laden's man in this election? That's right: Kerry is bin Laden's choice. No, the mass murderer didn't come right out and endorse the Massachusetts senator. But there's little doubt how he leans.
According to a translation of the tape by the Middle East Media Research Institute, bin Laden warned that any state in the U.S. that "white thug" Bush carries on Tuesday will in effect have chosen to fight bin Laden's al-Qaida.
"We will consider it an enemy to us," says MEMRI's translation, while "any state that will vote against Bush, it means that ...
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