Bumper stickers call Kerry 'bin Laden's man'

[Gunit_Sangh]

GOP CHAIRMAN IN JEFFERSON AGREES WITH THE MESSAGE

By Bruce Schreiner

ASSOCIATED PRESS


A bumper sticker being circulated in Louisville that reads "Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is Mine" was applauded by a Republican leader yesterday but decried by Democrats.

Jack Richardson IV, chairman of the Jefferson County GOP, said he didn't know the bumper sticker's origins, but agreed with its message.

"If bin Laden could vote based on Kerry's voting record in the Senate -- where he has decimated our national security and defense -- is there anybody that can honestly say bin Laden wouldn't prefer Kerry over Bush? Of course he would," Richardson said in a telephone interview.

Rest of article

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/state/9176679.htm

My first reaction was 'Them SOB's' but then again, I've got a Regime Change Begins at Home with a statue of fly-boy * being pulled in front of the white house, so I can't really complain.

[4dsc]

1. Desperation!!!!

Rule #1 in the Bush playbook, They will do anything to be reelected!!

[NewHampshireDem]

2. Sigh ... how very very Orwellian this nation has become ..

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/04/29/cheneys_past_defense_cuts_questioned/

Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been charging that John F. Kerry would be a dangerous commander-in-chief because he opposed many key weapons that the military now relies on, himself presided over the biggest cutbacks in defense programs in modern history when he was secretary of defense under the first President Bush.

As Pentagon chief from 1989 to 1993, Cheney canceled or cut back many of the same weapons programs -- bombers, fighter planes, tanks -- that he says Kerry tried to deprive the armed forces of.

<snip>

Cheney proposed, for instance, disbanding part of the Army's Fourth Infantry Division, Congressional Quarterly reported in 1989. Troops from that division captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein last December.

<snip>

Yet Cheney canceled the B-2 bomber program after 20 planes, even though the Air Force saidit needed 132. He also canceled the Navy's A-12 bomber and scaled back the Seawolf submarine.

During his Pentagon stint, the size of the Army was reduced by more than 26 percent, the Air Force by 22 percent, the Navy by 14 percent, and the Marines by 10 percent, according to the Pentagon's official biography of Cheney.

But support for particular weapons ''is not a very useful way to judge strength or weakness," said a former congressional defense staffer who asked not to be named. Using such a yardstick, he added, President Jimmy Carter was the ''strongest" because his budgets resulted in the weapons that won the 1991 Gulf War.

Unfortunately, that doesn't fit on a bumpersticker.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. TPM had this yesterday...

It worked in GA in 2002 against Max Cleland, why not trot the technique out again for this election?

Anyhow, Josh Marshall actually interviewed this nitwit, Jack Richardson IV:

<snip>
Richardson told me that he'd seen a bumper sticker with that phrase on it and agreed with it heartily. "I believe that if you look at John Kerry's voting record in the senate," he told me, "why wouldn't bin Laden prefer Kerry over Bush?"

When I pressed Richardson on whether or not his party organization was distributing it, he acknowledged that they probably were handing it out on their campaign literature tables at recent events. And if it was being handed out, "I make no apologies for it."

"I think it's funny how the truth not only can be amusing but also make a point," Richardson went on. "Why wouldn't Kerry be bin Laden's man? Bush certainly isn't bin Laden's man."

Toward the end of our conversation Richardson told me I should also be writing about equally anti-Bush signs and bumper stickers he'd seen and other "slanderous things" being said about the president. I told him that made a lot of sense and asked whether he could tell me about similarly aggressive campaign material being distributed by Democrats in his area.

No luck.

"Quite frankly, I don't care what they put out," Richardson said. "They run their business and I'll run ours."
</snip>

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_07_11.php#003166

[maddezmom]

5. so they are "probably" handing it out....LOL

well atleast he didn't lie. :crazy:

[UpInArms]

18. as a matter of fact, I believe they are handing it out

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/07/17/loc_kybinladen17.html

excerpt:

Richardson said he first noticed the bumper stickers mentioning the al-Qaida leader this week. He said the local GOP had no involvement in creating them, but said the stickers were available at the county's GOP headquarters and were a popular item. He said he hoped the local GOP office will receive additional supplies.

[wicket]

28. DU had it first!

:D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2005610

[wicket]

65. kick!

:kick:

[wicket]

68. kick!

:kick:

[UnityDem]

32. This stuff is why Max Cleland

is a great choice to introduce Kerry at the convention.
He will, hopefully, point out that the repubs are doing to Kerry nationally what Bush/Rove/Ralph Reed(the little weasel) did to Max in Georgia. It was unbelievably disgusting.
This election will be Max's revenge! Kerry On, everyone!!!

[RummyTheDummy]

50. You're absolutely right.

I'd like Max to introduce himself to America and tell his story of both Vietnam and what those fucks did to him. He can do it in a non-venomous way. Most non partisan Americans don't know what happened him to him in 2002. I think if they did they would be utterly disgusted.

[UnityDem]

55. Even Zell Miller

defended Max over what BushCo pulled back then.
Saxby Chambliss is utterly disgusting. I can't believe the state of Georgia bought his lies. Truly a sad day for the state of Georgia and our nation in Nov.'02 when we lost Max from the U.S.Senate.

[iamjoy]

4. Those Hypocrites!

When liberals compare the Bush regime to Hitler or Nazis, it's wild-eyed, negative extremism.

But it is OK for Repugnantcans to comapre Democrats to bin Ladden or Hussein?

How vile. I can't say this is a new low for them, the worst is when they compared Max Cleland to bin Laden. Max Cleland! And then Ann Coulter said he (Cleland) wasn't really a hero just because he lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.

If you ask me, I think bin Laden prefers George W. in the White House because he really helps al Queda recruiting. I know the Saudis, who fund terrorism, prefer our sitting President. That is why they are now making a big show of an effort to crack down on it, to help keep Bush in office.

[Citizen Daryl]

9. Crime, Inc.

They have absolutely no morals or scruples. They will use whatever dishonest, deviant, sinister tactics they can think of. They prove every day that they are capable of any deceit. All those things that Ann Coulter says about liberals? She's describing her own people. It's classic Orwellian doublespeak. They haven't been trying to dismantle liberalism in this country because they believe it's wrong. They've been trying to dismantle it because it's competition. And they can't defeat liberalism in the marketplace of ideas, because liberalism beats their failed, damaged policies hands down, every single time.

[St. Jarvitude]

42. al Qaeda does prefer Bush in office

"It is not possible to find a leader more foolish than Bush, who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom. Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization. Because of this we desire Bush to be elected." - al Qaeda statement 3/17/04

Who's bin Laden's president now?

[struggle4progress]

51. link

Islamists Declare Spain Truce, Endorse Bush
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Associated Press
CAIRO
<snip>
The editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi, Abdel Bari Atwan, told The Associated Press the paper received the statement via e-mail Wednesday night. The paper has received other e-mails from this group. On the evening of the Madrid bombings, the paper released an e-mail from Abu Hafs al-Masri in which they made the first claim of responsibility.

"This statement is authentic," Atwan said, adding the group had previously claimed responsibility for last year's homicide attacks in Istanbul, Turkey, and on the U.N. headquarters in Iraq.
<snip>

The statement tells American voters that Abu Hafs al-Masri supports the re-election campaign of President Bush: "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections."

The statement said Abu Hafs al-Masri needs what it called Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" because they would "wake up" the Islamic world.
<snip>

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114489,00.html

[Don_G]

6. Bear In Mind

That the Jefferson County (KY) Republican Party is the same group that launched Mitch McConnell's career in politics and feel some arrogance about having a powerful "fiend" in the Senate.

[Citizen Daryl]

7. "SHOUT OUT HIS NAME! GOLDSTEIN!!!!!!!!" n/t

[SideshowScott]

8. Whatta Bunch of HorseS**t!..Bin Ladin THRIVES with Bush in power!

And I knew these facts BEFORE F-9/11 like most of us DUers.
Once agian the GOP is playing dirty pool cause thats the only way the can win ANY election and they know it. How many GOP wins have come from a fair fight?? Not bloody many I can tell you that!
To say that that Kerry in cahoots with Bin Ladin is lower than low if you ask me. We all know about the ties with the Ladin Family and Bush. Bin Ladin was the Key for Bush to invade Iraq, To push thru Bush's right wing adgenda and To keep the country in fear so the GOP can get away with any damn thing they please. How many Millions has Bush profited from his ties to the suadis and Ladin family?
And they have the crass to pull this crap. I hope that we dont sit for it!

[Citizen Daryl]

10. I wonder if Bush has the number to Bin Laden's satellite phone.

Sometimes I picture him on the balcony of the White House, sipping a Jack Daniels and reminiscing on a three-way call with Osama and Bandar.

[Geo55]

25. ....

[jimshoes]

11. Wasn't Poppy bush having dinner

with a Bin Laden on 9-11? From what I can see, it's the *bushs' that are in cahoots with the Bin Laden's not Kerry.

[flordehinojos]

12. GOOD! All Kerry needs to do now

Good post! All Kerry needs to do now is come out with another bumper sticker that reads,

"WHO WAS HAVING DINNER WITH A BIN-LADEN THE EVE OF 9/11?"

But then, as I was typing this, the thought occurred to me that Kerry so far has not bitten any of the Bush inflammatory rhetoric which they feed Kerry in an attempt to keep him off message.

Perhaps this latest bumper sticker, and Bush's latest ad in which he appeals to pea-sized brain cockroaches are just Bushco's last desperate attempts to keep Kerry off message.

Perhaps Kerry shouldn't bite.
:eyes:

[Ironpost]

20. I believe what you say is so right

[Robb]

13. Update: Jack Richardson IV also agrees with another bumpersticker

...implying that in order to ride in his van, passengers must contribute "gas, grass, or ass". :eyes:

developing... :D

[nibbana]

14. Link and contact info for Jefferson County GOP

[e-mail]-- General Questions
[e-mail]-- Jack Richardson IV
[e-mail]-- Merv Brandes
http://www.lougop.org/lougop/contact.jsp

[Q]

15. Wasn't it BUSH* who said that he'd GET bin Laden?

...smoke him out of his 'hole'? But bin Laden is still roaming free. He must really love Bush* for attacking Iraq and leaving HIM alone.

[Vogon_Glory]

16. Irony: An Al Quaeda Faction Has Endorsed Dubya

The irony of such bumper stickers is that at least one al Quaeda faction has endorsed the re-election of George Walker Bush. "The terrorist group stated that it wished Bush to win because it was not possible to find a leader, "more foolish than you, who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom."

Does this mean that this Jack Richardson fellow is actually an al Quaeda dupe?


Here's a link:

http://www.seriouslythough.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=930

[kodi]

17. If You Support Torture Support George Bush

.

[Warpy]

19. That does it. I'm carrying a marking pen from now on

Any hate-filled, lying right wing sign or sticker I see is going to be defaced. Anything linking Kerry with bin Laden is going to find the defacing moving into the paint job.

Your sign is hardly equivalent.

[Mr_Spock]

21. Yeah, I think it should be "risky" to drive around with such an

inflammatory sticker on one's car. Free speech or otherwise, a similar sticker against Bush on my car would undoubtedly cause it to be damaged by freepers - we're just talking fair play really. The next best thing would be to start a campaign to put out tens of thousands of the exact sticker with Bush's name on it. That's fair play too.

[goddess40]

36. Someone ripped off my Kerry sticker but left the anti-bush one alone

My mother thinks it was because they didn't understand what defoliate bush meant. I think she is right

[murielm99]

40. Careful, Warpy.

Lotsa parking lots have video surveillance.

[ThreeCatNight]

69. Sharpies work great for that.....

Voice of experience.
And BTW, I appologize for my community. It is bad enough to have Mitch McConnell on my conscience, and now this.

Artie

[Jon8503]

22. Bumper Sticker

It is my understanding that Bush is Bin Laden's man over Kerry. I had understood that info was out there that Bush had been the best thing to happen for Bin Laden over all. The reason being is that Bush has united all terrorists, lost us friends all over the world, has taken the war to Iraq and away from a war on terror and Bin Laden is stronger then ever and we are weaker as a result of all this.

This was done by Bush not Kerry so Bin Laden wants Bush to stay in there.

[gulliver]

24. Exactly. Bush is bin Laden's man!

The Bushies are just trying to beat us to the punch.

Bush is Al Qaeda's dream come true, as has been noted by Richard Clarke (former counter-terrorism chief) and others.

I'd love to see a Republican try to make the argument that Al Qaeda would prefer Kerry. It won't hold water.

In a way, I'm glad they have this bumper sticker. It is equivalent to a bumper sticker that reads "A**holes for Bush".

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

33. We should respond with stickers Bush/Bin Laden -4 more years

[harpo]

67. YEAH!!!

I like that bumper sticker idea...anybody make one yet?

[foo_bar]

35. bin Ladens signed *'s paychecks at Arbusto

but that's not a pithy bumper sticker slogan. How about "Bush is the first Saudi president?"

on edit: the second.

[goddess40]

23. World's #1 Terrorist - G. W. Bush

wouldn't that make a better bumper sticker, at least it would be true.
or how about:
Bush & bin Laden - friends til the end

[xchrom]

26. bush + bin laden = 911

[goddess40]

29. I like it

Dare I put that on a protest sign?

[classof56]

41. Go for it but be prepared

To have Bush flip you off if he sees you carrying it on one of his "parade routes".

[agincourt]

27. Sure, sure

Maybe because Kerry is a bleeding heart liberal,bin laden figures he would have got a better dialysis machine, or maybe been flown first class out of Tora Bora, not in cheap soviet junk. One thing though, if he likes Kerry better, then why would he try to screw up the election?

[truthisfreedom]

30. bush is mine? more like bush is bin ladin.

must be a typo.

[wicket]

45. OT: that picture

That picture of John and John is great! :)

[T Bone]

31. Bush was the bin laden's family values man after 911 for sure

It was under the Bush administration that all the bin Laden's were hustled out of the country with NO FBI questioning in the weeks after 911.

It was Bush's Harken Oil Company that the bin Laden family INVESTED money in in the 1980's. And it was Bush who scammed them out of their investment with a little insider trading spree of his own, that was roundly ignored by his father's SEC commissioner.

If the GOP wants to open this can of worms, let them. I say the Bush-bin Laden family connections are officially open for investigation by the Democratic campaign, now.

Let's out the Bush-bin Laden connections.

[glitch]

34. There is a TERRORIST behind EVERY BUSH!

But they won't get it.

[Jack Rabbit]

37. This is one reason Kerry will win

The idea that Osama favors either Bush or Kerry over the other is complete nonsense. As far as Osama is concerned, the only good American is a dead American; he is even more convinced that Ralph Nader that there is no difference between the two major parties -- or the two major parties and any minor one, for that matter.

The sentiment expressed on the bumper sticker is an example of the GOP preaching to the choir. The only people who take that crap seriously are already voting for Bush. It won't change any minds.

The GOP is spending all its time trying to "shore up" (that is to say, hang on to) their "base". They are making no attempt to persuade swing voters that Bush is a better choice. They aren't trying to change any minds.

[jeanmarc]

38. If I see one on a parked car, I'm doing damage.

It's a lie and it deserves a penalty.

[stepnw1f]

39. How Dangerous and Stupid

I can see it now. People on the streets fighting each other. Nice devisive tactic... wait for it to backfire. How irresponsible. The problem with chaotic tactics like this is they never know how big an impact their actions will have. They have one small objective in mind, yet reactions are unique and unpredictable.

[Democat]

43. Whoopi gets fired for making a joke, but this is ok?

Hypocritical Republicans? No way. :)

[Sean Reynolds]

44. It's obvious Kerry favors Bush!

I said it in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2008882&mesg_id=2008882

No one replied. :(

[LiberalTexan]

46. YOUR bumpersticker

"Regime Change Begins at Home" is much different than the inference that only a TERRORIST would vote for Kerry. That bumpersticker implies that the majority of Americans that turnout to vote for Kerry on the second Tuesday of November are terrorists.....

I love Republican philosophy.

[earthside]

47. Prefered Bumper Sticker

BUSH/bin Laden
2004

Although putting bin Laden on the ticket in place of Cheney doesn't provide much "idoelogical balance", does it?

[Gruenemann]

48. "Who Would Al Qaeda Vote For" was

the bumper sticker I saw a few minutes ago. Was it meant to be pro-* or anti-*? The vehicle wasn't much of a clue--true, it was a shiny new SUV, but it DID have a Rice University sticker as well.

[MasonJar]

49. I was thereat the corner with my Kerry sign. That downtown

corner is a great spot to electioneer. Next time we will go at 5 instead of 4. This was a total spur of the minute protest. It was on my e-mail so I went. Thanks for the e-mail address of the IV th. I sent him a scathing response to his embarrassingly stupid interview.

[LoZoccolo]

52. Bush* appears to be the child molesters' man.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=580481

[digno dave]

53. Wonder if O'reilly will mention this...

[wicket]

56. Probably not

He only mentions the things that make Democrats look bad.

[The_Casual_Observer]

54. If it makes them feel better about themselves it OK with me

Republicans must be very conflicted right now. The faith they have put into the chimp is being eroded daily as the truth emerges about all the stupid decisions he has made and how the have been deceived. So, if this is what they have to cling to, so be it.

[scarface2004]

57. heres a bumper sticker...

BUSH IS A STUPID COCKSUCKER!!!!

[TheWraith]

61. Not quite

Doesn't have the right cadence. ;) Try it this way:

Monica Lewinsky blows,
but George Bush Sucks!

Or some other possibilities:

Prune Bush '04

Shave Bush '04

Four More Wars! Bush '04

Bush/Vader 2004

Bush/Cheney 04:
Go Fuck Yourself

And on a more positive note:

John Kerry:
The Anti-World-War candidate.

John Kerry:
He speaks in actual sentences.

Anyone know where you can get pre-cut print-your-own bumperstickers?

[havocmom]

58. Osama wanted US Military out of Saudi Arabia and bush* obliged

bin Laden wanted Saddam out of power and bush* did that too. Osama says jump and bush* asks 'how high?'

So how is Kerry his man? Seems like DimSon is bin Laden's bitch.

[Nikki Stone 1]

59. Karma? Kerry's primary ad had "inexperienced" Dr. Dean next to Bin Laden

The message was that Dean had no experience with bad guys like OBL, whose picture figured prominently in the ad. I thought, at the time, that this strategy was a low blow within the party. Now, the Republicans have just made the implicit message of Kerry's anti-Dean commercial very explicit and kranked up a notch.

I am a Democratic ticket voter, but I am disappointed in both parties' exploitation of terrorism for their own narrow goals.

[w4rma]

60. Propaganda piece by the AP. VERY few quotes from Dems and VERY little

background information about anything Kerry said/did.

Very detailed about everything dealing with anything Republican tho.

[wicket]

70. kick!

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

62. We can come up with even better bumper stickers

Here's mine:

Bush/Fuck2004

Bush=Hitler

Jesus is gay and so is Bush

Don't vote for Bush! He's an alien lizard!

The ones about Kerry don't bother me at all, but I'll bet mine would piss off freepers real good!

[Piperay]

63. They are wrong

I have no doubt that if OBL could vote chimp would be his 'man'. Chimp played into OBL's hands exactly the way he wanted him to and has his undying gratitude and would also get his vote.

[bluestateguy]

64. bin Laden has thrived under Bush

His organization has plenty of new recruits to replace those who are captured or killed. He is now a hero in the Islamic world, much more so than he was 4 years ago. He still remains on the loose too.

[ljm2002]

66. "Bush is Faisal's Man / Kerry is Mine" -- n/t