‘Obama-Biden vs. Osama bin Laden’: El Tiempo of Colombia

Here’s an interesting if unsettling question: Which U.S. presidential candidate would Osama bin Laden prefer – and what might he do about it?

For Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper, Isaac Bigio writes in part:

“Osama bin Laden has never lived in the Americas, but thanks to the slaughter he directed on September 11, 2001, he became the most important U.S. elector by triggering Bush’s rise in the polls. … The greatest vote-getter that McCain could hope for would be if bin Laden would allow himself to be captured or if he carried out another massive attack.”

As for what might be going through bin Laden’s mind, Bigio writes:

“Osama, however, must be wondering whether a victory for Obama would be more dangerous to him than one by McCain, since the African-American will give the United States a new image and get the U.S. out of Iraq to concentrate on hunting down and capturing him.”

By Isaac Bigio

Translated By Paula van de Werken

August 28, 2008

Colombia – El Tiempo – Original Article (Spanish)

Osama bin Laden has never lived in the Americas, but thanks to the slaughter he directed on September 11, 2001, he became the most important U.S. elector by triggering Bush’s rise in the polls.

Until then, he was a new President with little popularity and who had reached the post despite having lost the election.

To the degree that Bush has been unable to capture him or stop his advance, the governing Republican Party has been undermined.

The greatest vote-getter that McCain could hope for would be if bin Laden would allow himself to be captured or if he carried out another massive attack.

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