Who Would Osama Vote For?

There is a new campaign sign up on my way home from work. It is a huge billboard which mentions neither candidate (so I guess it squeaks by any campaign finance laws). It asks one simple question, "Who Would Osama Vote For?" A powerful message, and moreso by the fact that everyone I know immediately thinks "John Kerry", even before their logical side kicks in. Kind of a political Rorschach Test. But as a political idealist, who tries to be fair to both sides, I found myself annoyed at the sentiment.



Well, it appears it is more true than John Kerry would like us to believe. We already knew that the Senator had been endorsed by Yasser Arafat, but now an Iraqi insurgent group has said out loud exactly what most of us thought, and Mr. Kerry must be horrified to read.

Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S. insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and the Americans will go home... Resistance leader Abu Jalal boasted that the mounting violence had already hurt Mr. Bush's chances. ...The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists

To be fair, it also mentions that some elements are hoping for a GWB victory instead, because he is a polarizing figure that might help in recruitment for radical jihadists. But it appears, by far, that John Kerry is preferred by most terrorists.