Bin Laden: The Neo-Con's Dream Enemy

Imagine, if you will, an enemy that is impervious to capture, commands a lethal force of soldiers who can strike anywhere, anytime, and anyway they want, and who seems to say all the things your political enemies say... verbatim. Wouldn't that be the perfect enemy?

Now imagine Osama bin Laden in a cave in Pakistan, hooked up to his portable, solar powered dialysis machine (I can only imagine it is not powered by a gas powered generator), trying to concoct a speech that will rally his faithfull lemmings, and at the same time send a message of fear to the President. And what does he say? Exactly what Karl Rove would have scripted him to say. Does anyone else think this is weird? Osama set up the bait and the hacks that pass as "jounalists" bit and bit hard.

After reading his comments, and comparing them to the statements of the administration over the last four years, it is obvious that Bin Laden wants the conflict to continue. His offer of truce was little more than posturing for his Muslim audience. I guess offering a truce before a battle is brave act in Islamic tradition because Muhammad did this before a great battle. The majority of his comments play like a talking points memo for the presidents political critics.

If anything, Osama's rant will go to serve Bush and the GOP more than hurt them. As we head into this election year, be careful to notice how Democratic challengers to Senate seats steer clear of any rhetoric that may resemble what Bin Laden has said. With that said, I have to wonder if Osama is part of the K Street Project as well.

McClellan echoes the Gonzales inaccuracy

McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless
physical searches, and he cited an the Aldrich Ames case. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the
inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.
"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

Read the full article here.

Again, the key for this administration: state a lie enough and it suddenly becomes truth.

What's happening today...

The liberal blogosphere is buzzing in regards to Al Gore's speech yesterday. Mr. Gore has called for the attorney general to begin an investigation into Bush's domestic spying activities. Gonzales has quickly retorted that:

I would say that with respect to comments by the former vice president it’s my
understanding that during the Clinton administration there was activity
regarding the physical searches without warrants, Aldrich Ames as an
example.
I can also say that it’s my understanding that the deputy attorney
general testified before Congress that the president does have the inherent
authority under the Constitution to engage in physical searches without a
warrant and so those would certainly seem to be inconsistent with what the
former vice president was saying today.

Think Progress has a good rundown on why this is an inaccurate statement from our Atttorney General.