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Usama Has Been Berry Berry Good to Me
Just as baseball was good to Garrett Morris in his classic (yet perhaps a bit racist) Saturday Night Live skit, Usama bin Laden has been very very good to President George W. Bush.

There was no better proof of Usama's largesse than at Monday's Republican Party fundraisers where Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney collected almost $6 million from some of their "everyday Joe" friends in New York City, Virginia, and Massachusetts.

At all the events, the sales pitch centered around, of course, terrorism.

"We have captured or killed many key leaders of al-Qaida, and the rest of them know we're hot on their trail," Bush told the people in the audience who paid $2,000 each to hear him.

Governor George Pataki added, "Thank God we have a president who, when our (country) was attacked in a way we never experienced before, understood it's not a time for national hand-wringing, it's a time for national leadership. On Sept. 11 and thereafter we could have never had a stronger leader for our country or a better friend for our city and state than George W. Bush."

All this is just a warm-up for the campaign's planned crescendo at the Republican National Convention, which is being held in, yes, you guessed it, New York City in late August/early September.

It's plain as day that Bush plans to get re-elected by riding on the "terrorism" issue, conjuring images of September 11th to help people in this country forget (as if we already needed any help forgetting) about the realities of a devastated economy, the post-invasion messes in Afghanistan and Iraq, the President's lying to the American people and the world to justify war, the dismantling of cherished freedoms, etc.

If it hadn't been for Usama, for all we know, we may have had the second impeachment in a row of a sitting president.

But all that's far behind him now as he cashes in, hoping to collect $170 million for a primary campaign where his only opponent will be an irritating facial smirk.

Posted by editor at June 24, 2003 12:03 AM / TrackBack

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