OBL wants Bush to win because he feels safer with Chimpy's incompetence.

[Ruffhowse]

Kerry is more of a danger because he will be smarter and more focused on getting OBL instead of looting Iraq with all his rich fat cat buddies.

[truthisfreedom]

1. osama bin laden sucks. who cares what he wants.

fuck obl. osama is so yesterday. let him die. he has nothing. he's worthless.

[Birthmark]

3. Great post.

I don't care who OBL wants to win. No right thinking American should be swayed in the least by him or his preferences.

[RC]

5. Unless of course it causes them

to vote for Karry over bu$h.

[Birthmark]

7. Nope.

I don't want them to even change their vote for Kerry, if they're doing it on the basis of what OBL wants.

[seventhson]

2. CHECK THIS OUT: Osama today is ... very satisfied, very optimistic man

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=81977&mesg_id=81977


If there is one man who has a sense of American culture and society in the 21st century, it is William Gibson.



Meanwhile, OBL himself checks in (evidently having watched Fahrenheit 9.11, as he makes a joke about My Pet Goat) with fresh footage, and what are we to make of that?

A central part of my sense of history, since the attacks, has been that OBL and Bush are symbiotic, feeding one another power and (at least as crucially) meaning.

I don't, however, see their relationship as symmetrical, since OBL ultimately seems to get more out of it than Bush does. OBL gets edged closer to his hypothetical win-position, and Bush doesn't. (This imbalance is probably due to OBL having come to the union with no lack of meaning, while Bush, prior to 9-11, meant almost nothing at all.)

At a deeper level of power-exchange, though, win-positions are only hypothetical, for these two. What matters most to them is that they continue to have each other.

In that light, I can only assume that OBL's new tape is a very clever player's best shot at getting his partner a second term.

I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that OBL fears Kerry any more than Bush. But Kerry can only comprise an unknown, and why allow the other team to introduce an unknown when your familiar power-symbiote has always proven so wonderously adept at doing everything you'd most want him to do?

OBL today is probably a very satisfied, very optimistic man, and if he can skew the last-minute dynamic of the election in Bush's favor, he'll have cause to be all the more satisfied.

And that's the danger, that some crucial percentage of our dimmer, more reactive voters will flash back to 9-11 and the Bush of the bullhorn, the Bush buffeted with the heartbroken grit of Ground Zero, and vote for that -- childishly imagining that such a vote runs counter to the wishes and the needs of OBL, the bearded stickman, the cave-dwelling spider, our new Old Man of the Mountains. Player of the long game.

emphasis added
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archi...

[patricia92243]

4. I guess OBL wants a "four more years" guarentee for himself. He knows he

will have at least four more years of life.

[Harlan James]

6. I can only agree

And who knows, maybe Osama's family exerted a little pressure to help out their business partners in Houston. After all, having the woefully incompetent Shrub in office has certainly had its business benefits for both the bin Laden and Bush families, not to mention their long list of clients and associates.

[BayStateBoy]

8. Of Course! Don't Think Tape Will Hurt Kerry. NJ (?)

Only question is about NJ...