Fake alerts until October's Attack followed by a Stolen Election...

[Junkdrawer]

Other than that, enjoy the summer.

PS: The fake alerts are a ploy to get Kerry to condemn the fake attacks. If he does condemn them before October, THEN I would worry. Carry on.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Howard Dean called it on CNN

and I think that that is enough. Kerry can keep on point with his message-let others take on this.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Howard is really doing great service for the party and the K/E campaign

by being point man on this. He really has my great respect although he had it before.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Must not let any good news about Kerry

stay on the front page very long.

Kerry leading in most polls, must be time for a terror alert.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Won't most see through this?

Every time bush* needs a distraction away from his negatives, or positives for dems, we have a terra lert! It's all so transparent and predictable. At some point people have to catch on to this, doncha think?

[Birthmark]

3. Yeah, we're doomed.

The Repubs are a hundred times smarter than us. </sarcasm>

[Osama_Bin_Winnin]

6. 110x craftier

and more realistic for sure

[Birthmark]

16. Yes, "America is safer."

And "We've turned a corner." stand as a testament...to the fact that Bush is a pathetic failure. He, and they, haven't shown the slightest bit of competence. Hell, they couldn't even figure out how to discredit a lowly Ambassador without getting themselves into more trouble than they were in in the first place! Oh, yeah. Dey's crafty. LOL

[John_H]

30. Dey's gone be winning within 7 days. Do you work for the Kerry Campaign.

'cause yours is the kind of attitude I see eminating from it, albeit combined with a supersized helping of risk averseness. The posters point, I believe, was that if we rely on everybody coming to believe what we think is obvious, we'll lose. We've got to play it as tough as they are.

[RummyTheDummy]

25. Careful

You might reveal yourself.

[Bridget Burke]

28. More realistic?

You must have a stash of that super-strong marijuana I've been hearing about.

[Junkdrawer]

12. Not smarter, just more ruthless. So ruthless, in fact, that...

most Americans have a hard time wrapping their heads around it. Which is, in turn, how they get away with all this crap.

[Birthmark]

15. I think the reason they get away with things...

...is a function of ownership, not ruthlessness or cleverness. Most of what they do is inept and transparent. Bush is a pathetic failure. The people know this. There aren't very many people who are going to look around at what's happening and say, "This is SOOOO much better than things were under Clinton." Anyone who allies themselves to Bush has made themselves irrelevant.

[Junkdrawer]

17. I beg to differ. Ruthlessness is a big part of what they've been doing...

for the last 3 1/2 years.

Tell anyone (other than DUers and kindred spirits) about LIHOP, and they look at you like some kind of nut.

Ditto about a hundred other scandals. They're so ruthless no can believe it.

[Birthmark]

18. Ruthless, but inept.

They are even more inept than they are ruthless. Otherwise, *no one* would be able to entertain a LIHOP scenario. ;)

[Junkdrawer]

19. Think Al Capone. Sometimes ruthlessness can make up for a whole...

lot of inept.

BTW: Noam Chomsky uses the Mafia Don comparison all the time. I think it is more accurate than all the "Nazi" stuff.

[Birthmark]

20. Maybe.

But ruthlessness is only a temporary solution. History shows this clearly.

[Junkdrawer]

21. I pray people will wake up. Perhaps the next attack will be Bush's...

St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

:evilgrin:

[Birthmark]

22. The next bit of terrah...

...that Bush experiences will be awaking on Nov. 3 to the grim reality that his pathetic ass has been tossed by the American public.

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[maveric]

5. As specific as Rove wanted it to be.

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T-!

[mbee]

8. Well I'd say the Plame indictments and the rest of the horrible

story concerning the torture of children in Iraq will finish off this bunch of criminals. Maybe the Dems will have some surprises (perhaps an October surprise) of their own.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. No, I just want solid evidence

Chatter doesn't cut it anymore.

[NightOwwl]

10. We want the truth.

Unfortunately, this administration is incapable of anything but lies.

[Junkdrawer]

14. Yeah, I thought the "specific" thing was a nice touch...

good change of pace.

[homelandpunk]

7. I hadn't thought of that twist.

Kerry condemns the warnings as politically motivated. Calls are immediately placed for the go-ahead. The strike. Media trashes Kerry. No need to steal the election in more blatant ways. Bush wins.
Just like a chess move has a number of things going for it if thought out, so do these sort of things. If Kerry does not fall for what you have described, they will use these warnings for other ways of defeating Kerry.

[NightOwwl]

13. And isn't it a coinky-dink that a financial institution

in New Jersey is also targeted. Must close those bridges and waterways so those pesky anti-Bush demonstrators from NJ can't get into New York

[Cats Against Frist]

23. I'm pretty sure this alert is in the "Osama Wants Kerry to Win" vein.

Same as the send up about postponing the elections, and same type of spin as a Kerry win causing the market to dip and the economy to slow. They want to portray "the sky will fall," if Kerry/Edwards are elected.

Give me a fucking break. They can do this at will, and no one would have to be the wiser. And the terror alerts don't tell you to DO anything -- they tell you to go to work and act like everything is normal? What the fuck?

Osama doesn't scare the piss out of me half as much as the GOP.

[lockdown]

24. Similar to 2002 then

The plan was always to invade Iraq in early 2003 with the midterm elections safely out of the way, banking on the post 9/11 patriotic wave to see them through the latter. Didn't look likely in the summer of 2002 though, when they'd been hit by leaks about 9/11 foreknowledge (notably the PDB leak that May) and Bush was being tainted by the whole corporate scandal thing.

Many, myself included, thought then the invasion of Iraq would be brought forward to before the elections, that would be the October Surprise. Nothing so drastic was needed though, instead they drowned out the 9/11 questions and other incoveniences with a barrage of terror threats... ehm, terror alerts, and through the summer those alerts morphed into the manufactured hysteria and war drums over Iraq. (but you all know that :) With a willing media, that atmosphere won them the midterms and they didn't have to fire a shot, no mihop or whatever necessary.

I agree, no actual attacks but constant terror manipulation till the election, enough to keep it close enough to steal. Less people will be fooled this time around but there's no shortage of suggestible unthinkers who will buy it again and again. If that makes me elitist then tough, it's still true.

[Junkdrawer]

26. PPS: And they'll probably stop an attack between now and October...

I mean, it will look real bad if they're 0 for 2.

[Junkdrawer]

27. Kick

:kick:

[Junkdrawer]

31. It smelled Sunday and it reeks Tuesday morning...

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