Larry,

with such help, you just can't loose. 
OBL knew the timing and the result.
However will he ever catch him or do they just help eachother? ;->

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/28/bush.binladen.reut/index.html

Bush: Bin Laden helped me, book says
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Posted: 1742 GMT (0142 HKT) 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush said his 2004 re-election victory 
over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, The 
Washington Examiner newspaper reported Tuesday.

The al Qaeda leader had issued a taped diatribe against Bush the Friday 
before Americans went to the polls

Bush said there were "enormous amounts of discussion" inside his campaign 
about the 15-minute tape, which he called "an interesting entry by our 
enemy" into the presidential race.

Bush's comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new 
book "Strategery" by Bill Sammon, a longtime White House correspondent.

"What does it mean? Is it going to help? Is it going to hurt?" Bush told 
Sammon of the bin Laden tapes. 

"Anything that drops in at the end of a campaign that is not already 
decided creates all kinds of anxieties, because you're not sure of the 
effect.

"I thought it was going to help," Bush said. 

"I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush 
to be the president, something must be right with Bush."







On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:33:56 -0800, Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>Sounds like someone is still fuming over an election.  Yes, fix the
>problem and move on. 
>
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>
>Again?
>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1654590&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
>Watchdog Group Questions Outcome of Florida's 2004 Presidential Election
>
>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Feb 23, 2006 (AP)- An examination of Palm Beach
>County's electronic voting machine records from the 2004 election found
>possible tampering and tens of thousands of malfunctions and errors, a
>watchdog group said Thursday. 
>
>Bev Harris, founder of BlackBoxVoting.org, said the findings call into
>question the outcome of the presidential race. But county officials and
>the maker of the electronic voting machines strongly disputed that and
>took issue with the findings. 
>
>Voting problems would have had to have been widespread across the state
>to make a difference. President Bush won Florida and its 27 electoral
>votes by 381,000 votes in 2004. Overall, he defeated John Kerry by 286
>to 252 electoral votes, with 270 needed for victory. 
>
>BlackBoxVoting.org, which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit
>citizens group, said it found 70,000 instances in Palm Beach County of
>cards getting stuck in the paperless ATM-like machines and that the
>computers logged about 100,000 errors, including memory failures. 
>
>Also, the hard drives crashed on some of the machines made by Oakland,
>Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, some machines apparently had to be
>rebooted over and over, and 1,475 re-calibrations were performed on
>Election Day on more than 4,300 units, Harris said. Re-calibrations are
>done when a machine is malfunctioning, she said. 
>
>"I actually think there's enough votes in play in Florida that it's
>anybody's guess who actually won the presidential race," Harris added.
>"But with that said, there's no way to tell who the votes should have
>gone to." 
>
>Palm Beach County and other parts of the country switched to electronic
>equipment after the turbulent 2000 presidential election, when the
>county's butterfly ballot confused some voters and led them to cast
>their votes for third-party candidate Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore.
>The Supreme Court halted a recount after 36 days and handed a 537-vote
>victory to Bush. 
>
>Palm Beach County election officials said the BlackBoxVoting.com
>findings are flawed, and they blamed most of the errors on voters not
>following proper procedures. 
>
>"Their results are noteworthy for consideration, but in a majority of
>instances they can be explained," said Arthur Anderson, the county's
>elections supervisor. "All of these circumstances are valid reasons for
>concern, but they do not on face value substantiate that the machines
>are not reliable." 
>
>Sequoia spokeswoman Michelle Shafer disputed the findings, saying the
>company's machines worked properly. Sequoia's machines are used in five
>Florida counties and in 21 states. 
>
>"There was a fine election in November 2004," Shafer said. 
>
>She said many of the errors in the computer logs could have resulted
>from voters improperly inserting their user cards into the machines. The
>remaining errors would not affect the vote results because each unit has
>a backup system, she said. 
>
>Jenny Nash, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of State, which
>oversees elections, said she was not aware of the report and had no
>comment. 
>
>Harris said one machine showed that 112 votes were cast on Oct. 16, two
>days before the start of early voting, a possible sign of tampering. She
>said the group found evidence of tampering on more than 30 machines in
>the county. 
>
>However, Harris said it was impossible to determine what information was
>altered or if votes were shifted among candidates. 
>
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