From your lips to God's ear Hal.

Hill Country Weisenheimer

This would be very plausible as a false flag pre election stunner, but from past performance we've come to learn that McCain would have trouble flying a toilet seat and Palin's aim would be halfway up Johnnies back while humming the tune Wipeout.

When in doubt shoot the works!

"I'M RED, WHITE & BLUE" (AW-WOO-AW-WOO, AW-WOO-AW-WOO!)

UPDATE: President Bush has ordered a pike to be installed in the Rose Garden and will hold a press conference at noon when McCain lands in DC with the long awaited head of the notorious outlaw. There have been no press releases from the Saudi Kingdom as yet. Palin will be given the honor of field dressing the villain.

Nice one Zuzu, further updates welcome as this story progresses.

Helpful websites if this comes true:

Canada immigration

Immigration to Mexico

Bermuda immigration

A secret to the surges success is when the US government and Maliki claimed that the wounded al Qaeda kingpin fell off the stretcher trying to get away from the Americans. If I was Bush I would have done a lot of things differently. But I would have also tried to let Pakistan capture bin Laden, instead of US troops, realizing like most don't that bin Laden would be extremely dangerous as a dead martyr.

I also, had I accidentally killed bin Laden instead of turning him over to Muslims to try, would have claimed he was still alive. And made false comunicay's coming from the then dead leader, expecting his followers to insist he was dead.

But what if instead they also pretended that bin Laden was still alive?

All this means that all the CIA has to do is announce that they just killed a long dead from liver disease, bin Laden, and McCain can be President.

Maybe Hall's dream is reality not a nightmare. Maybe despite me being usually progressive, I thinking Bush isn't as bad as most people think, holds water.

However I agree with most bloggers that President Palin will be the worst President or worse than any Ancient Roman Emperor the world has ever seen.

PS in the past when I brought up this subject my comment disappeared. I'll quickly save myself a copy in case this does again

RichardKanePA

It's hard to kill someone that's already dead. Imagine the decomp since December 2001. Show me the body!

Funny dream anyhow Hal. Especially since it is darn near impossible to make that shot with a sniper rifle from a moving plane.

LOL, just read Richard's comment and I'm like an quiet echo down here. And we aren't the only ones to say so.

I'm sure such a scenario would be an absolute nightmare for the Obama votaries; however, would that really be the case in the practical world of politics?

In April 1991, George H. W. Bush had an incredibly swift and successful war behind him and had approval ratings in the high 80s; however, just 18 months later he is behind in a lackluster campaign against a virtually unknown governor of a not particularly forward-looking southern state. The military success in Iraq did not translate to much for Bush beset by economic problems and post-Andrew ineffectiveness.

Thus, would the (hypothetical) demise of OBL really be that much of a boost to McCain? The end of the Cold War and the trashing of Saddam meant the end of an era - the end of history as we knew it, according to Francis Fukayama - and people felt comfortable in taking a chance on an unknown like Bill Clinton, someone who would never had made it out of the gate in the "old days".

The certifiable demise of OBL would mark then end of an era in the "war on terrorism" at a time when we are beset by economic woes and the aftermath of two rather destructive hurricanes. I'm not sure but that such an "October surprise" might make people feel more comfortable about taking a chance on a black president just as they once bet on a southern governor.

Most sincerely,

T. J. Flapsaddle

Pretty good, but you really dated yourself with the F7F Tigercat, a plane that has been retired lo these many years. Should have said F/A18. But anyhoo, McCain was never qualified in the F7F, in fact I am not sure if it was still in service when he was flying/crashing the Navys bombers. But other than my nitpicking it was a very good piece. PS You should have said that McCain/Palin were flying a T6Texas, which is only a 2 seater, but then Palin could have sat on either McCains or the unknown Marines lap

Thanks Timr, I changed the jet and the prop plane as suggested. I also added a photo of the Tiger. I assumed Palin would be sitting on the Marine's lap but I explained that too.

Hal,

But taking idiocy too far is the fun of sheer idiocy -- the fact that you CAN take it too far and make it too wild to be believable.

Go ahead -- let your inner idiot OUT and HAVE FUN with it!

UPDATE: Pakistani officials revealed this afternoon that one of the bodies recovered from the remote mountain trail where Osama bin Laden and his party was killed was that of an American. Little information is being released at this time. The body is being shipped to Kabul for examination by American officials.

The individual, it was revealed, was killed by machine gun bullets. He was a white man in his early 60's and had an American passport.

Hal,

If that's where you want your idiocy to take you -- get 'er done (channeling Larry the Cable Guy)!

(Could you make it Dick Cheney wearing one of his outrageous cowboy hats????? - just kidding)

UPDATE: CENTOM has identified the American killed in the mountains of Pakistan along with Osama bin Laden and several other of apparent Middle East descent as American citizen William Charles "Bill" Ayers. Ayers hold the title of Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Recent picture provided
to Wikipedia by Ayers, per their request,
on Oct. 12, 2008, to be available
in the public domain.

He was a member of a radical violent group, the Weathermen, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. An association with presidential candidate Barack Obama early in Obama's acarrer and later on community boards in Chicago brought him into prominence during this presidential campaign when opposition candidates McCain and Palin decided to use this to tarnish the reputation of Obama.

The Republican candidates have claimed that Obama and Ayers are friends and that they pal around together, Obama has denied this and according to Wikipedia "The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship".

Ayers did not appear to have been carrying a weapon. He was wearing a knapsack which contained an old copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook" by William Powell, a box of Snickers candy bars, and a plastic bag containing two dozen "Obama 08" campaign buttons.

Ayers is survived by his wife Bernardine Dohrn, also a former leader of the Weathermen. They have two adult children and shared legal guardianship of a third child

Neither the McCain nor Obama campaigns would respond to inquiries asking for reactions to this development.

Hal,

Oh -- now THAT is GOOD!

Good job! ;-)

FLASH..Dateline Oct14/08
After a successful air raid across the mountains of Pakistan the Republican tickets plane upon return to deliver the head of Bin Laden to the American people encountered mechanical difficulties.

McCain and Palins Cessna was observed over the Atlantic headed for D.C. with smoke billowing from the tail section, a crackly voice came over the radio and asked for landing instructions at Dulles. Air traffic control asked for identification and were told by the pilot that the candidates were passed out, that he is blind,and that they are flying upside down...PLEASE give landing instructions he implored!

Air traffic was incredulous and asked the pilot;
If you are blind, how do you know you are flying upside down?

The crackly voice responded;

Because SHIT is running up the back of my neck.

October 26, 2008
The Peoples' Republic of China announces it has bought and annexed the State of California . From this day forward the former State of California will be known as the Province of East China.

The deal was signed today by President Bush in a special ceremony in the White House Rose Garden.

The loss of Californias' 59 votes in the electoral college will shift the Presidential Election to insure a victory for John McCain.

That's a good one Cowboy, When Ahnie squints he does look somewhat oriental. The Pahty Poopah Khan. Sieg Noodle

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I assume that if McCain was flying, they crashed and burned on the first flight.