This should be interesting: McCain Camp Presser to Talk About Which Candidate Terrorists Want

[maddezmom]

McCain Camp Holds Presser to Talk About Which Candidate Terrorists Want
Wed, October 22, 2008 - 10:48 AM

From the McCain campaign:

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, at 11:30 a.m. EDT, McCain-Palin 2008 will hold a press conference call with former CIA Director Jim Woolsey and McCain-Palin Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Randy Scheunemann to discuss recent news stories about which candidate terrorists would like to see in the White House in 2009.


I'm guessing Bob Barr? Kidding. While this might seem like another attempt by the campaign to tie Obama to terrorists (see: Ayers, Bill), the AP reported today that Al-Qaida supporters are calling for a pre-election terrorist attack on the U.S. to help McCain win.

From the AP:

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/2008electionblog/blog_index/mccain-camp-holds-presser-to-talk-about-which-candidate-terrorists-want/1959/

[Thrill]

1. They're idiots. My guess is the Obama Campaign wouldn't have mentioned the Al qaida message

Now they will. LOL

[maddezmom]

4. Obama is meeting with members of his Sr National Security team today

so I'm betting they will have a response prepared. :)

[progressivebydesign]

2. My god.. they are REALLY going there again??? When is the Quarter-Annual OBL Video released?

It's almost time for one of those.. last time it was the Sunday before the election... wonder when it'll be this time? Fucking republicans.

[Richardo]

3. "But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: "

... are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. The Repubs should have had Vinznni run McPain's campaign. LOL

[ErinBerin84]

5. another PR stunt

The Obama campaign wouldn't even have touched the Al-qaida thing, and the Mccain camp pushed Hamas last year...shame on them for giving the terrorists such a voice in this election.

[central scrutinizer]

6. McHoover has applauded every terrorist act as helping him

The murder of Benazir Bhutto is one example

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7587.html

Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated in Pakistan and the political conversation in America had changed.

Which means at least for a little while Republicans here were not thinking about which presidential candidate was tougher on immigration or which had the best Christian conservative credentials.

Some were thinking about who might be the best leader in an international crisis, and John McCain says he can fill that bill.

“My theme has been throughout this campaign that I am the one with the experience, the knowledge and the judgment,” McCain told reporters after a speech to an overflow crowd at an Elks Lodge here. “So, perhaps it (i.e., the turmoil caused by the assassination) may serve to enhance those credentials.”

[ErinBerin84]

8. good point, I forgot about that....

Plus, Charlie Black's dumb ass comments.

[central scrutinizer]

7. self delete - dupe

[maddezmom]

10. Obama live now to discuss National Security on MSNBC and CNN

[yourguide]

11. I cant believe they are not smart enough to let this fade from the news cycle.

WOW!

[maddezmom]

12. and here are some of the responses from the McCain camp

McCain Camp Takes on ‘Terrorists’ Preferences’
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Manchester, N.H., on the presidential race.

John McCain’s campaign held a conference call with reporters Wednesday with the dubious label: “Terrorists’ Preferences.”

The Republican nominee’s staff was reacting to a story in the Washington Post that suggested members of al Qaeda endorsed McCain’s candidacy. The story was formed around postings on the Web site al-Hesba, which opined that McCain would continue the “failing march” of President George W. Bush.

McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann trashed the Post report repeatedly, suggesting that it was a bold claim backed by thin evidence.

Former CIA director Jim Woolsey suggested that the support was a sort of reverse psychology—that by endorsing McCain the terrorist group would encourage voters to support Barack Obama.

All week, the GOP campaign has hit on the Democratic candidate’s inexperience and played up McCain’s foreign policy experience. At a rally on Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close friend of McCain’s, offered a similar sentiment. “You wish America harm and he gets to be the next commander-in-chief, you better watch what you do,” Graham said.

more:http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/22/mccain-camp-takes-on-terrorists-preferences/?mod=googlenews_wsj

[maddezmom]

13. McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain

McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
By Spencer Ackerman 10/22/08 12:35 PM
I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign to deny that Al Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post, is rooting for their man. To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement.

Jim Woolsey, the former CIA director who publicly connected Iraq to the 9/11 attacks without any evidence in 2001, and senior foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann spent more time whining about the Washington Post’s standards of fairness than on the logic of why Al Qaeda might prefer Sen. John McCain. “An amazing piece of journalism, and I use journalism in quotation marks,” Scheunemann said, going on to list barely approving quotes of Sen. Barack Obama from Hamas, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, which he said he wasn’t going “to characterize.” Woolsey, for his part, peered into the mind of what he called “one individual Islamist blogger from one terrorist Islamist blog” and determined that he was “clearly trying to damage John McCain” and “not speaking from his heart.”

What was absent from the call, oddly enough, was any discussion about why Al Qaeda might want McCain to win. And there the case is simple enough. Al Qaeda prefers an indefinite U.S. occupation of Iraq and a bellicose U.S. all across the Muslim world to radicalize Muslims to its terrorist cause and drain the U.S. of its financial wealth — what Osama bin Laden calls his “bleed to bankruptcy” strategy. Hence, the reason why, as the CIA eventually concluded, Bin Laden tried to help George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004 by releasing a late-October tape. McCain pledges basic continuity with Bush on the Iraq war. As Scheunemann put it, “John McCain will spend what it takes to win.”

more:http://washingtonindependent.com/14218/mccain-advisers-freaked-out-by-al-qaeda-preference-for-mccain