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Al Qaeda For McCain?
Oliver Willis — Just sayin’. Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents. And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best suited to continue that trend. ‘Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,’ said a commentary posted Monday on the ...

The terrorist endorsement
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... The Washington Post reported on commentary found on a website closely linked to Al-Qaeda that said the group "will have to support McCain in the coming election" because he'd continue the "failing march of his predecessor." ...

McCain Holds Conference Call To Address Al Qaeda Endorsement
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... . They'll also probably try to run a little bit of reverse-psychology jujitsu on the reporters, gathered for what will hopefully be the Greatest Campaign Conference Call of 2008. This stratagem was advanced, briefly, in the Washington Post article on this news, which included this statement: "Some terrorism experts said the support for McCain could be mere bluster by a group that may have more to fear from a McCain presidency." Who are, "some terrorism experts?" I'm guessing McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann, who will be doing the conference call. ...

McCain Holds Conference Call To Address Al Qaeda Endorsement
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... . They'll also probably try to run a little bit of reverse-psychology jujitsu on the reporters, gathered for what will hopefully be the Greatest Campaign Conference Call of 2008. This stratagem was advanced, briefly, in the Washington Post article on this news, which included this statement: "Some terrorism experts said the support for McCain could be mere bluster by a group that may have more to fear from a McCain presidency." Who are, "some terrorism experts?" I'm guessing McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann, who will be doing the conference call. ...

McCain and Al Qaeda: You Telling Me Y’all Believed That?
Firedoglake — ... I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign held 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 understatement. Jim Woolsey, the former CIA director who publicly connected Iraq to the 9/11 attacks without any evidence in 2001, and senior foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann spent more time whining about the Washington Post's standards of fairness than on the logic of why al-Qaeda might prefer McCain. "An ...

The Q to his List
Obsidian Wings — ... First, it was not "one individual Islamist blogger from one terrorist Islamist blog," as Woolsey claims.  From the article that sparked the uproar: ...

McCain Spokesmen: Al Qaeda Endorsement ‘Ludicrous’
Wonk Room — Listening to Team McCain’s press call reacting to today’s Washington Post’s story about a pro-McCain posting on an Al-Qaeda affiliated website, I think Attackerman is right. Panicked is an understatement. The Post reported: Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market’s downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America’s economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents. ...

Washington Post: Al Qaeda for McCain
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The Washington Post published a story Thursday about a minor terrorist's ranting on a website about his support for McCain. ...

Crazy Day In The Endorsement Universe: McCain Gets Al Qaeda & The KKK, Obama Scores The World's Most Popular Evangelist, Dr. K.A. Paul
DownWithTyranny! — ... ass. Look, I am certain that McCain was at least somewhat uncomfortable when Sarah Palin ran in, breathless, to tell him the great news about the Ku Klux Klan. It's even worse than being endorsed by all those crooked, snake-handling, anti-Catholic preachers a few months ago. (And it isn't just McCain the KKK has endorsed. McCain's northern California stand-in, Tom McClintock is a longtime KKK endorsee.) Is it worse than the Washington Post's report today that al-Qaeda is praying for a McCain victory too? Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock ...

Country Elections First
Shakesville — ... attributed to Muhammad Haafid, a longtime contributor to the password-protected site. "Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America."All of this leads to what will probably be my favorite post headline in this entire campaign: McCain Advisers Freaked Out by Al Qaeda Preference for McCain 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 ...

New Conservative Line: Iran’s President Doesn’t Matter!
Wonk Room — ... , Pipes was at least forthright enough to admit that, were he a registered voter in Iran, he would “vote for Ahmadinejad…I would prefer to have an enemy who is forthright and blatant and obvious.” Interestingly, Pipes’ extremist thinking neatly mirrors the thinking of extremists elsewhere, such as the contributor to an Al Qaeda-linked website who declared that “Al-Qaeda will have to support [Sen. John] McCain in the coming election,” as McCain would be more likely to continue the policies of George W. Bush, which ...

Obama More Dangerous Than Bush — For Extremists
Wonk Room — ... We saw some evidence of this recognition of the danger Obama posed to the extremists’ agenda last fall, when an Al Qaeda-affiliated website posted a message insisting that “Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election” because he would be ...