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Terrorists for McCain!
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH A little love for McCain from the jihadists. "Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to ...

Al Qaeda's presidential preference?
Political Animal — ... Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "This requires presence of an impetuous 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." The al-Hesbah website, closely linked to the terrorist group, added that al Qaeda " will have to support McCain ," and hoped that a McCain foreign policy would "exhaust" American ...

Today in The Nation: Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
The Nation: Top Stories — The Post today reports that Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain for president. With seemingly impeccable logic, the cave dwellers -- actually, more likely, Quetta-squatters -- say that by electing McCain, the United States will commit itself to an extension of President Bush's blunders and thus exhaust itself militarily and financially. Of course, Al Qaeda says that the way it can assist McCain is through a terrorist act that will rally Americans to his side. Saying that McCain will continue the "failing march of his predecessor," Al Qaeda added: "Al-Qaeda will have to ...

al-Qeada Supporting Troll Gets a Bite
The Jawa Report — October 22, 2008 al-Qeada Supporting Troll Gets a Bite All the liberal blogs are pointing to this story about some Jihadi Moron on al-Hesbah speculating that al-Qaeda will attack to help John McCain get elected. They must have forgotten Rusty's rule, online terrorists are for the most part morons. Via WAPO: It will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaeda," said the posting, attributed to Muhammad Haafid, a longtime contributor to the password-protected site. "Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America." the ...

On Al-Qaeda Web Sites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support for McCain
44 — ... will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush. The Web commentary was one of several posted by Taliban or al-Qaeda-allied groups in recent days that trumpeted the global financial crisis and predicted further decline for the United States and other Western powers. Continue reading Posted at 12:00 PM ET on ...

The Website Defense
democracyarsenal.org — ... Just a few minutes ago, McCain advisers Randy Scheunemann an Jim Woolsey tried to distance themselves from what has got to be the world's worst endorsement by suggesting that al-Hesbah, the al-Qaeda-linked site where the endorsement appeared, does not reflect the true views of the terrorist organization.  However, a closer look at al-Qaeda's internet activities over the past month show this defense to be pretty thin.  For the past few weeks, the organization has been embroiled in an all-out struggle to keep their websites active, losing four of their five affiliates ...

McCain Campaign Attacks Washington Post, Insinuates Terrorists Want Obama Victory
TPM Election Central — ... On the call, McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann seized on an article in today's WaPo reporting that some members of al Qaeda are pulling for McCain to win. ...

McCain Aides Blast Post Report on Al-Qaeda
44 — John McCain McCain Aides Blast Post Report on Al-Qaeda By Michael D. Shear Senior McCain aides blasted a report published in today's Washington Post quoting commentary on an Islamic extremist Web site that "Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," saying that The Post had relied on a "blogger" whose connections to al-Qaeda were questionable. And the McCain team accused The Post of running an "inflammatory" headline while ignoring words of praise for Barack Obama from other Middle East leaders. Randy Scheunemann, the campaign's top foreign policy adviser, ...

Al Qaeda Endorses McCain, Chertoff Undermines His Spin
Newshoggers.com — ... march of his predecessor, Bush." SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Md., monitors the Web site and translated the message. "If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests," the message said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it." The WaPo adds: the comments summarized what has emerged as a consensus view on ...

Leadership al-Qaeda Can Believe In
TalkLeft — ... Websites that support al-Qaeda view John McCain as the better presidential candidate, according to a story in the Washington Post. ...

Perhaps The Most Important Endorsement Of The Election
Comments from Left Field — ... So one has to wonder how the McCain campaign would react when we come to find out that it’s looking like al Qaeda is actually endorsing him. ...

As Mid East Precincts Close
N/A — ... If Obama Osama Bin Laden favored  Osama Obama in this election, you would be sure to hear about it.  But no.   Looks like “Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group.“ ...

Al Qaeda hearts McCain
Martini Revolution — ... The Washington Post reports intelligence sources are citing terrorist-affiliated websites that indicate that Al Qaeda is rooting for John McCain, because they view him as likely to continue Bush’s policies which have proved so costly and damaging US prestige and interests: ...

Thanks for That
Neptunus Lex — ... Let us put aside for now the notion of financially illiterate nostalgiacs for a vanished 7th Century caliphate hooting and gibbering over the US stock market slide, and focus instead up their declared preference for the candidacy of John McCain for president: ...

Democrats Join With Al-Qaeda Trying Scare Voters Into Voting For Obama
Stop The ACLU — ... with permission. I may add my own notes later. We have often seen, written and posted about Democrats joining in with terrorists and al-Qaeda, siding with them, using their same arguments as if reading the same script and today we see it again. The Washington Post writes a piece about al-Qaeda trying to scare American voters into voting for Barack Obama, by saying they want John McCain to win and connecting him to the financial crisis, even though Mccain was the one who proposed regulations for companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Democrats opposed those ...

McCain aide fumes over al Qaeda story
The Swamp — ... A lot of push back from the McCain campaign, as one might expect, to the Washington Post's story today on a posting on an al Qaeda linked website that expressed a preference for Sen. John McCain to win the White House over Sen. Barack Obama. ...

Has Al-Qaida Chosen its Candidate? An Examination of the "Al-Hesbah-McCain" Controversy
Counterterrorism Blog — ... Earlier today, the Washington Post published an article examining recent "chatter" on Al-Qaida Internet forums which appears to endorse Arizona Senator John McCain as Al-Qaida's "preferred" candidate in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The Post cites a message posted on the notorious Al-Qaida web forum known as "Al-Hesbah" from a frequent discussant, "Mohammad Haafid", in which the latter individual suggests, "Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election" because McCain's anticipated counter-terrorism policies "will succeed in exhausting America." In the ...

The Daily Bric-A-Brac: Obama's Fantasy
The Atlantic Politics Channel — For those who've asked, Robert Draper's opus is here. A few weeks ago, a McCain adviser said that the campaign would bring up Barack Obama's record on crime... so far, the only evidence of that is a robocall from Rudy Giuliani. In a mailer, the Obama campaign pushes back against John McCain's charges about a certain association with Bill Ayers. Headline of the day: "On Al-Qaeda Websites, Joy Over U.S. Crisis, Support For McCain." Jonah Goldberg on why I'm wrong about Palin and socialism. ...

Speaker of Iranian parliament: We’re pullin’ for Hope and Change
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... (and a bitter rival of Ahmadinejad), so when he purports to speak for the Iranian government, he’s not puffing. You might be hearing this nifty little endorsement mentioned by McCain in the next few days, possibly in connection with the words “Biden” and “crisis.” Imagine the ads the weekend before election day: “Iran supports Obama” from Team Maverick and “Osama support McCain” from Team Barry. Awesome. Embedded video from ...

We must take al Qaeda at their word (except when they say things we don't like)
The Anonymous Liberal — This morning the Washington Post reported the following: "Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush. . . . [T]he comments summarized what has emerged as a consensus view on extremist sites, said Adam Raisman, a senior analyst for the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist Web pages. Site provided translations of ...

Al Qaeda Supporting McCain? No, Not Really
Pajamas Media — The media embraces a silly theory based on Internet forum posts by "desktop jihadists." [image] Lefty bloggers and pundits are ecstatic over a Washington Post article published Wednesday which reported that online forums frequented by al-Qaeda enthusiasts have expressed support for John McCain. According to the article, forum postings gloat over the present economic downturn, and hope that a McCain presidency and a continuation of the war on terror would play into their quagmire strategy: In language that was by turns mocking and ominous, the newest posting credited Al Qaeda ...

Country Elections First
Shakesville — ... in the wake of remarks by a spokesman for that organization. Now with the news that Al Qaeda web sites are seemingly backing McCain for President, the Republican might want to reconsider that line of attack. And to be sure, John McCain should steer clear of touting "Osama the Terrorist" at his rallies. ...

Al-Qaeda: "Please, voters, don't throw us into the briar patch!"
doubleplusundead — Al-Qaeda: "Please, voters, don't throw us into the briar patch!" The WaPo reported earlier this week that Al-Qaeda was apparently endorsing McCain: "Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush. Riiiiiiight. The "failing march" that includes no attacks on our soil in more than seven years, thousands of dead or jailed terrorists around the world, ...

John McCain in Crisis
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... the "surge." They maintain that other factors were primarily responsible for the reduced violence -- (1) a Sunni decision to rebel against al-Qaeda and accept monthly U.S. cash payments to secure their neighborhoods, (2) a cease fire declared by the largest Shiite militia, and (3) the U.S. military fighting a smarter war by (a) employing new innovative measures to target and kill key insurgent leaders, and (b) protecting the population and compensating for war damages. Al-Qaeda now supports a McCain presidency on the grounds that he will be "impetuous" and "exhaust the ...

Endorsement Scoreboard
If I Ran the Zoo — Obama: Colin Powell, every living Democrat and some moderate Republicans, Christopher Buckley, too many others to list here. McCain: Al-Quaeda.

al Qaeda pipes up again
Political Animal — ... on a password-protected website, citing McCain's support for the Bush administration's foreign policy. The al-Hesbah site, closely linked to the terrorist group, added that al Qaeda " will have to support McCain ," and hoped that a McCain foreign policy would "exhaust" American resources. Now, to reiterate what I said last week, we're talking about the rantings of homicidal lunatics, and it's ultimately foolish to try to vote with terrorists' motivations in mind. Neither the al-Hesbah message nor the Abu Yahya al-Libi video are what a reasonable person might describe as ...