Sadam is the new mascot for the Bush/Chenney 2004 re-election campaign.
With their new mascot securely in place — somewhere in a remote military base in Alaska — the campaign is very confident that Bush is looking safely at another four years as leader of freedom loving people.
Next time you see this man he'll be clean shaven and looking his normal, desert-foxish self — Sadam will make a few 'television appearances' spouting something about his innocence, capital-dogs, mother-of-all-retaliation, but he's really telling everyone what a great guy Bush is and how Americans need to vote for Dubya next November. Those translators never get it right you know.
And then he'll snicker and make a remark about how Howard Dean will need to capture Osama single-handily, live on FOX NEWS, if he wants to come close to touching Bush next fall. With the rapidly expanding economy (rates unseen in twenty years), increase in manufacturing (rates unseen in twenty years), and the DOW now resting at ten-thousand and all, Howard may need to do it without a shirt - James T. Kirk style.
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So where's Usama? I mean, it was Usama's basement they found Saddam in, right? Best buds and all that.
Exact-o-mundo.
You are right; the Dems are dead in the water. You may want to be wary of swallowing the administration's rosy assessment of the recent corporate profits. The unemployment in the manufacturing sectors is still high, and there are many people still out of work.
The sad part is that (some, many?) people are only looking at the war as Bush's solitary activity. While high-profile, I'm quite grateful for those few fiscally conservative measures as well. I'd like more freedom here in America and it seems that big government is my chief opponent on that front.
What? They caught Grizzly Addams?
I hate to admit it, but you're totally right, Greg. Bush is a lock and we're screwed for another four years.
THE WORLD SLEEPS SAFELY TONIGHT KNOWING A DELIRIOUS, NAPPY HAIRBALL LIVING IN A HOLE IS FINALLY IN REPUBLICAN CUSTODY
"Saddam was found presiding over operations at a state-of-the-art Weapons of Mass Destruction control panel with a retractable top, hot babes and heliport..."
Maybe it's early, but at the words 'retractable top' I lost it.
Saddam was found running a strict dictatorship over three cockroaches, two mice, and a rock.
But seriously, I think I'm about to call up Johnny Depp and see if he'll let me room with him until i can find my own apartment in France.
What happened to that guy who actually set up for those planes to crash into the wtc? Maybe FOX NEWS can just slowly start calling Saddam, "Saddam Bin Laden" now... I don't think much of America would notice.
Great picture of Saddam. I didn't know you were that good.
I wouldn't give up on the Dems just yet. So far, most of the economic "recovery" is plainly smoke-and-mirrors speculation stuff. It's a paper tiger.
What the Conservative media doesn't explain is these rates "unseen in 20 years" are the rates of increase compared to the previous quarter - not the absolute numbers. Therefore, what we're seeing so far is only a little bump in a situation that was so extremely, devastatingly dour that these very modest increases are exaggerated beyond all proportion.
The stock market has been temporarily artificially inflated due to the Medicare bill and oil prices. Manufacturing has been artificially increased due to the reconstruction of Iraq. Both these situations rely on long-term deficit spending on the part of the government, and will cause a boomerang effect that will come back to haunt us.
Let's see where we are in 6 months. Let's see the actual number of unemployed decrease. Let's see some long-term, sustainable increases in spending and the DOW, then maybe we can talk about Bush being a lock.
Charles perhaps you're right about the Democrats not being down for the count just yet. Not with news like this: "...the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented..."
They're saving Osama for a week before the election. Evildoers need to be rationed out to the public.
I seriously hope he does not get 4 more years. I am scared of what might happen to me specifically. I feel like eventually I will get thrown in jail only for my opinions. Him signing the Patriot II act into law shortly after the capture of Saddam is discouraging.