ac360blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tim Craig Washington Post The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party has compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden because of the Illinois senator's past association with Bill Ayers, who has confessed to domestic bombings as a member of the Vietnam War-era Weather Underground.
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is like al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden because they both have terrorist friends, a GOP leader says. Virginia state GOP party chairman Jeffrey Frederick, a legislator from Prince William, Va., says Obama and bin Laden both have friends that bombed the Pentagon, referring to Obama's acquaintance with 1960s radical William Ayers,...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is like al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden because they both have terrorist friends, a GOP leader says. Virginia state GOP party chairman Jeffrey Frederick, a legislator from Prince William, Va., says Obama and bin Laden both have friends that bombed the Pentagon, referring to Obama's acquaintance...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
As Sen. John McCain's motorcade arrived for a rally at Cape Fear Community College, this sign, featuring a photo of Osama bin Laden in between photos of a cigarette-smoking Sen. Barack Obama and Thomas Wright, a former North Carolina state legislator who was convicted of fraud, was on display outside the venue: As we exited the press bus, a young man wearing an Obama T-shirt took down...
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Hundreds of voters in New York’s upstate Rensselaer County were sent absentee ballots that listed the name of Democratic nominee Barack Obama as “Barack Osama,” an error that recalls the name of 9/11 terrorist Osama bin Laden. The mistake was first reported by the Times Union of Albany, according to the Associated Press. The elections [...]
Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hundreds of voters in New York's upstate Rensselaer County were sent absentee ballots that listed the name of Democratic nominee Barack Obama as "Barack Osama," an error that recalls the name of 9/11 terrorist Osama bin Laden. The mistake was first reported by the Times Union of Albany, according to the Associated Press. The elections office faxed a statement in which the two...
The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | yesterday
In McCain's Gainesville, Va., office, Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Frederick, standing on a folding chair, spoke to 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door. He gave them "talking points," Tumulty writes, "for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden." Said Frederick: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," in a reference...
Theo's blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A top Virginia Republican has gone the final step and compared Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden, according to a report in the Washington Post. Jeffrey Frederick (pictured) said: "It is just the hard facts. It's terrible that it can be said, but it can. It's shocking. Here is a guy who is one step away from the presidency, who is one step away from being commander in chief, who has a friend...
Robert Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obviously, the name of the Democratic ticket is Obama-Biden, though you hardly ever see it written that way, thank God. Why? Well, I was just reading a headline right now that said, Clintons Campaign For Obama-Biden in Pennsylvania . Ok, for a few seconds that freaked me out, until I had to reread it. This is what I read: Clintons Campaign For Osama bin Laden in Pennsylvania instead of...
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
The resurgence of the Taliban and al-Qaida has reignited the debate about how Osama bin Laden has eluded authorities during the past seven years. In late 2001, U.S. warplanes relentlessly pounded mountain caves in Afghanistan where bin Laden was thought to have been holed up after the ruling Taliban was ousted. But as VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, a U.S. secret commando...
Queerty (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Frank , Bobby May , Gail Gitcho , Gay , Homophobia , Jeffrey Frederick , John McCain , Ludacris , Osama bin Laden , Politics , Racism , Virginia
One Utah (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Raw Story reporter Eric Brewer recently asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino to comment on Senator McCain’s interesting claim that he knows how to find Osama bin Laden. Q: John McCain said recently that he knows how to get Osama bin Laden. And a couple of months ago he said that he knows how to [...]
The Serious Tip (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Silver’s colleagues from Baseball Prospectus, Rany Jazayerli , wrote an essay on the idea that Osama Bin Laden could eventually play a role in the 2008 US Presidential Election. Jazayerli’s thesis was that a Bin Laden speech or video would give John McCain a boost in the polls and might possible sway enough currently undecided voters to give McCain the presidency in November...
fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Rany Jazayerli, my colleague at Baseball Prospectus who wrote for us in August about the resignation of Barack Obama's national coordinator for Muslim American affairs, has a guest feature today contemplating Osama bin Laden's potential to influence the 2008 elections. I hope you'll take the time to jump below the fold and read his piece. by Rany Jazayerli If it’s October, that means...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
DOC who led Glasgow Airport car bomb attack left his will to Osama Bin Laden court told
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Blatant Lie
Frederick's blatant attempt to smear Senator Obama shows how desparate he and other Republicans are in light of McCain's continual decline in the polls....
Tom - (not a member) - 10/13/2008