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washingtonmonthly.com - 10/22/2008
Al Qaeda's presidential preference?
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AL QAEDA'S PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE?.... A couple of weeks ago, Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism coordinator for the National Security Council, explained that al Qaeda would probably prefer a John McCain victory this year, in part because the terrorist network wouldn't...
washingtonindependent.com - 10/22/2008
McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain
— washingtonindependent.com — 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… (more) McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for ...

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article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
Lowry: John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly
— article.nationalreview.com — Perhaps no other Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race. (more) Lowry: John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly

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attackerman.firedoglake.com - 10/22/2008
You’re The One For Me: Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
— attackerman.firedoglake.com — The U.S. may occasionally have a hard time calculating its interests. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, tends to know what's good for it. That's why, along with millions of wingnuts worldwide, it wants you to focus on lies about Ayers and ACORN. It leaves ... (more) You’re The One For Me: Al Qaeda Endorses McCain

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Lawyers, Guns and Money:  Spin Prediction

Comments from Left Field:  Perhaps The Most Important Endorsement Of The Election

The Reaction:  Yusef The Plumber

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Spin Prediction
Lawyers, Guns and Money — The McCain campaign's response to this bit of news will consist of some variation on the following: Americans should be comforted to know that al-Qaeda's assessment of John McCain's temperament as president roughly parallels everything that Sen. Obama has been saying on the campaign trail.If the McCain campaign won't run with it, the wingnuts are by all means welcome to have it. In which case, my official response will be some variation on the following: Wingnuts should be comforted to know that their analysis of al-Qaeda's analysis of the ...

Perhaps The Most Important Endorsement Of The Election
Comments from Left Field — ... I suspect the conservative response will be that this message is an elaborate attempt at reverse psychology — al Qaeda says it would prefer McCain because it really doesn’t want McCain. I suppose anything’s possible — we’re talking about the rantings of homicidal lunatics — but if the goal was to get this message out to an American audience, al Qaeda probably wouldn’t have published it in Arabic in a password-protected website. ...

Yusef The Plumber
The Reaction — ... American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said. "Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush." On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain BOO!! You’re The One For Me AL QAEDA'S PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE?... And, it wasn't so ...

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