Nerve Endings Firing Away

One of the so-called October surprises I was expecting was an international terror crisis that would let McCain trump his foreign policy skills; whether he would suspend his campaign and go wherever the crisis occured is a point worth debating. But the McCain campaign got an unexpected endorsement today – from Al-Qaeda.

Remember them? The guys who masterminded the most terrifying attack on U.S. soil and are now currently regrouping in Pakistan-Afghanistan. Nope, Bin Laden did not make a new mix tape but the endorsement was found on a password-protected Jihadi website which is allegedly a favorite haunt for Al Qaeda social networking types. Why would Al Qaeda endorse McCain? Because nothing works better for their recruitment drives than continuing a long-lost war for freedom in the Middle East and McCain is just the guy for continuing wars if not starting one more.

Imagine if this endorsement was for Obama? You would have seen the airwaves been inundated with McCain acolytes shouting see we told you so! But the genius that the McCain campaign is instead decided to make a conference call and criticize the media (the ever-favorite tactic when everything fails) for reporting the news. But the strangest explanation would follow later – the Al Qaeda endorsement was in fact, reverse psychology i.e. they want us to believe they support McCain when in fact they root for Obama. Honestly, you cannot make this stuff up! But sadly even logic is not their forte because they follow up this ridiculous argument by emphasizing the supposed support for Obama from Hamas which completely negates their first point.

Come on, guys! I’m not sure if you really want McCain to win or simply have a secret plan to sabotage McCain’s campaign a la the 2000 fiasco. Probably Cheney and Rove are still rooting for Bush and pulling the strings.