GOP Rep.: Al Qaeda Would Cheer Obama Win

Iowa Rep. Says Terrorists Would "Dance In The Streets" And Declare Victory In War On Terror

(AP)  An Iowa Republican congressman said that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency. An Obama spokesman said such comments "have no place in our politics."

U.S. Rep. Steve King based his prediction on Obama's pledge to pull troops out of Iraq, his Kenyan heritage and his middle name, Hussein.

"The radical Islamists, the al Qaeda ... would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror," King said in an interview Friday with the Daily Reporter in Spencer.

King said his comments were not meant to demean Obama but to warn how an Obama presidency would look to the world.

"His middle name does matter," King said. "It matters because they read a meaning into that."

The Illinois senator, born in Hawaii to a white Kansas woman and a Kenyan man, is a Christian and has said he has little connection to the Islamic religion, though he acknowledges he spent part of his childhood in largely Muslim Indonesia.

In criticizing King, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said, "These comments have no place in our politics." He called on John McCain, the apparent Republican nominee, to "repudiate them like he has previous offensive comments from his supporters."

Last month, McCain denounced an introduction from Cincinnati talk-show host Bill Cunningham, who referred to Obama three times as "Barack Hussein Obama."

[whitepicks2]

Looks like McCain has more to reject and denounce. Idiot.

[croft777]

LOL, This is so true. Obama + Rev. Wright Farrahkhan Khadafy = Terrorist.

[croft777]

LOL, This is so true. Obama + Rev. Wright Farrahkhan Khadafy = Terrorist.

[bm6005]

Pig!!!

[kissamaarse]

In reality al Qaeda has cheered GOP victories, because it gave Bin Laden one of things he wanted" the American military bogged down in a Muslim country, draining away our treasury and our goodwill around the world. Must be Opposite Day for yet another Republican member of Congress.

[ms38654ob]

It would appear that the terrorists would have more to fear from an Obama presidency than a "stay the course" McCain one. Keeping up Bush''s failed policies would only allow the terrorists to continue to get stronger, which they have under Bush''s watch. At least Obama and Clinton offer something different.

To me, change in any way would be better than this continued blood and money game in Iraq.

[nmben]

Tommy Vietor said, "These comments have no place in our politics." Thank you Mr. Vietor for your dignified response.

At a time when young American men and women are dying in the battle field, if the right wing swift boaters think these are the kinds of attacks that are going to have traction with the American people, then they surely are misreading the pain of the Country. They may end up doing more damage to the candidates they think they are supporting this time around. I believe the American people have now put the credibly of the message and messenger side by side. The lightness of both is overwhelming. If McCain wants them on his side then he too would be risking what ever credibility he has now left.

No matter what the right-wing demagogues and their Clinton counterparts on the Democratic side do, I hope the Obama and McCain campaigns honor us by not treating us like morons.

[jncc1701]

Funny
The real dancing in the streets will occur when Hillary wins the nomination. Nothing will unite the GOP like this -
If this country goes for the same poeople and policies that got us in the mess - we deserve what we get.

[shoebox119]

We are motivated in life by fear and by hope. One party chooses fear to motivate people, the other party opts for hope. Need I say more?

[nmben]

Amen "jncc1701".

[samthetvcat]

"King said his comments were not meant to demean Obama but to warn how an Obama presidency would look to the world. "His middle name does matter," King said. "It matters because they read a meaning into that.""

Looks like we''ve found ''Tracy Morgan'' and ''Lars008''

[hotpaulie]

What a moron!

[hungry1968]

GOP - the party of racism, bigotry, and intolerance. I''ll bet he''s a christian too.

[realpatriot1]

Obama is cheering because while he was severely wounded he was allowed to crawl into Pakastan under the watchful eye of the CIA which was waiting on the orders from the Bush White House to take him dead or alive.

He and the Taliban have prospered in Pakastan while training and "graduating" new terrorists to be sent to Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere to attack both American targets and moderate Muslims.

With the capability of American sattelite recon and Balckbird surveillnce there''s no way that he could lead a caravan of his supporters into Pakastan with out us being ble to follow his movements from point A to point B and know exactly where he ended up. There''s no reason why we couldn''t monitor him from there and no exactly where he is from that point forward to now.

He can''t move without a security contingent accompanying him so it stands to reason that we know where he is and Musharif and the Pakastani Intell are protecting him.

Obama wants to go after him in Pakastan while Bush, McCain, & Clinton would rather cower to the terrorists.

Bin Laden himself will do anything he can to kep Musharif in power and Obama out of the White House.

[cobalt1964]

shoebox 119: I generally agree that the republicans motivate people by fear and the democrats motivate people by hope, but then how do we explain hillary and bill clinton? fear mongers, racists and two egomaniacs who will do and say anything for power...know hope, know Obama''s politics....

[samthetvcat]

"King said his comments were not meant to demean Obama but to warn how an Obama presidency would look to the world. "His middle name does matter," King said. "It matters because they read a meaning into that.""

Maybe he''s just traumatized by the fact that his middle name is ''LOSER''

[clarkpaul]

What a weenie!
Republican noise machine getting louder.
OMG, the sky is falling, issue another alert!

[frankson2]

question....how does this jerk know how terrorists would re-act? another republican DOPE!

[walt1944-2009]

An Iowa GOP Congressman has, once again, brought FEAR back into the poliical race by saying that Al Qeada would be "dancing in the streets" with Obama as president, since they would see it as a victory in the "war on Terrrrrrrorr".

This from a Fascist Nazi whose champion, the Great Emperor Bush II has been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002, and has yet to capture Osama Bin Laden, a man who the Great Emperor has already gone on record as saying that "he doesn''t think about him anymore"! Besides, Al Qeada is already declaring victory over the "infidel" USSA and that with the Great Emperor Bush in charge of the mess!

It is anticipated that the neocon Fascist Nazi Republicans will be using "FEAR" more and more as the campaign for the throne in the Oval Office heats up.
We will have "terrrrrrrorists" hiding beneath every rock and behind every tree and only the Great Emperor Bush and his older clone, John "the Great Prentender" McCain, will be able to stop them (much as the Great Emperor stopped Al Qeada in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan!!!!) by using "advanced forms of interrogation" and killing innocent civilians.

In essence, WE have become no better than the ''terrrrrorists" we are fighting! No wonder the world wants nothing to do with the USSA!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, McCain????

[aaabee-2009]

Is this man speaking for the constituents of Iowa? Because it sounds like he is speaking for the GOP mud machine.

Are all Iowans in agreement that your elected representative''s words are accurate, backed by factual evidence substantive enough to air nationally. Actually, aren''t his words more like baseless speculation? How would he know or prove something like that?

No one says Iowans have to like or vote for Obama, but to have your state''s elected official participate in what is obviously engineered tactics to perpetuate fear in America?

It will be interesting to see what you do or don''t do about this. If I were a resident of Iowa, I''d rally the state to recall this person and put someone in his place who speaks for Iowans, not for the GOP.

His words are meant to keep you scared as well.

[taotxzen]

(cont)

Funnily enough, Rove felt that it was his job to tell McCain%u2019s story about his daughter Bridget back in 2000, and the version he told then was significantly different:

Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, %u201CWould you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain%u2026if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?%u201D This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh.

[taotxzen]

(cont)

I don%u2019t think people know a lot about him. They don%u2019t know about his views and values that informed him as a young man. They don%u2019t know about what drew him to service in the United States Navy. They don%u2019t know about all of the compelling story about the POW experience that he had. They don%u2019t know what motivated him, but what people and places in Sedona touch his life. Let me give you just one example: I think most of your viewers be shocked to hear the story about Cindy McCain in Bangladesh, visiting an orphanage, and she has a small dying child thrust into her hands and the orphanage%u2026the people in the orphanage say we can%u2019t, we can%u2019t care for her, she%u2019s dying, we don%u2019t know what to do. And Cindy McCain%u2019s impulse was to hold that%u2026hug that child to her chest, get on an airplane and bring her home. When she got off the plane, there was John McCain, and he said, %u201CWhat do you got?%u201D and she said %u201CI%u2019ve got a child who%u2019s dying, we need to get her help%u2026we need to get her care.%u201D And John said, %u201CWell, who is she going to be staying with?%u201D and Cindy McCain said, %u201CI was hoping that she could stay with us.%u201D And today, that young child%u2013who was near death%u2013is their teenage daughter. I don%u2019t think most people understand the compassion and love that would come from a moment like that. There%u2019s a lot more of John McCain%u2019s story that he needs to tell.

(cont)

[gopack443]

Is this guy a half wit or does he just assume everyone else is?

[taotxzen]

The O%u2019Reilly Factor: Karl Rove Points To McCain%u2019s Adopted Daughter As Example Of McCain%u2019s Worthiness

By: Nicole Belle

It is no longer possible to have your irony meter redline when Karl Rove appears on TV. He is so beyond the pale, so completely entrenched in his alternative reality that the only thing left to do is marvel at the brass cojones he must possess to pull off this appearance on The O%u2019Reilly Factor. Now that the Bush administration has officially endorsed Republican nominee John McCain, Bush%u2019s Brain tells Billo that there%u2019s a lot about McCain that the public doesn%u2019t know, and those things would impress them. For example, did you know that McCain adopted a dying baby from Bangladesh?

(cont)

[vet_sk]

What a sad sack. But what is really sad it is very close to what Hillary is saying about Obama too with with Red Phone add. Obama won the delagate lead he has fair and square. Not asking for Hillary to bough out but not to discourage what that vote represents. Obama has even endorsed a revote in Michigan and Florida that Clinton campaign has wanted.

[ki8911]

Whoa, the extremist Republicans fear mongers are already oozing from the cesspool. This is a clear sign that the Elephant party is scared, that their corporate masters are not amused with the American rejection of destructive neocon policies. It''s only going to get nastier as we get closer to November.

[creeper00]

sigh On behalf of most Iowans I would like to apologize for inflicting Steve King on the rest of the nation. Sorry.

[samthetvcat]

Ah ha ha - somebody started a website on this guy with the headline "IF ANN COULTER WERE IN CONGRESS SHE WOULD BE STEVE KING (R-IA)".

The Des Moines Register after he''d been in Congress for 2 years went from endorsing him to denouncing him, saying "King has been an embarrassment to Iowa"

Steve King''s take on the ''Day Without Immigrants'' rally: "There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a *** crime."

He also said his wife would be safer walking the streets of Iraq than DC

[hungry1968]

sigh On behalf of most Iowans I would like to apologize for inflicting Steve King on the rest of the nation. Sorry.

Posted by creeper00 at 12:50 PM : Mar 08, 2008





If we have to start apologizing for every filthy republican that aired a racist, hate filled statement, we would never get anywhere - all we would ever do is apologize to each other.

I can''t figure why anyone would ever vote for a member of the republican party ever again, unless the democrat was the likes of Marion Barry.

[kojip]

There goes another "nut" job, fear monger politician with his minions chiming in here. The only kind card left to play by the republicans is their trusty fear card. I am surprised they are pulling it out so soon even thouugh the democratic primaries/caucuses are yet to end. They must be scared, they see a tide of change coming, taking over the country and they are scared for their political futures, they want people to share their fear, so they play on people''s fear of others different from them. How shameful, how il-logical, how small. This representative''s home state voters need to recall him. He does them a dis-service when he spouts fear with his words. In this election year the American people refuse to be scared into voting for a presidential candidate. We are just plan tired of politicans trying to scare us to vote for them. We will not vote our fears this election year, instead, we will vote our hopes.

[aaabee-2009]

The quite reasonable suspicion that the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the GOP''s poll numbers.

18 months prior to the 2004 presidential election witnessed a barrage of those ridiculous color-coded terror alerts, quashed-plot headlines and breathless press conferences from Administration officials.

Warnings of terror attacks over the Christmas 2003 holidays.
warnings over summer terror attacks at the 2004 political conventions
slew of warnings of terror attacks to disrupt the election itself.
terror warnings two days after John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate;
another came three days after the end of the Democratic convention.

the timing of the alerts seemed to fall with odd regularity right on the heels of major political events.

... not long after the champagne corks stopped popping at Bush campaign headquarters, terror alerts seemed to go out of style. With the exception of one warning about mass-transit facilities in response to the London bombing on July 7, 2005, that was pretty much it until this summer.

the magic of the terror-alert song and dance. There''s no way to know. All the key facts are veiled in secrecy, as they must be. But with another election looming

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1211369,00.html

[hungry1968]

Why are libs reluctant to discuss Baracks family heritage?

*H*U*S*S*E*I*N

Posted by T-racyMorgan at 12:54 PM : Mar 08, 2008





What does his heritage have to do with his ability to do the job? Why do the racist GOPigs feel they need to constantly keep bringing it up? Why don''t you care what nationality Clinton, McCain, Bush, Cheney, etc, etc, are?

Why do idiots like you, think your stupid message is so important that you need to post it 5 or 6 times?

[aaabee-2009]

sigh On behalf of most Iowans I would like to apologize for inflicting Steve King on the rest of the nation. Sorry. Posted by creeper00 at 12:50 PM : Mar 08, 2008

Oh creeper00, S''okay.
You have our support and sympathy. I have had to apologize myself for Harry Reid. :)

[perception5]

Yep..........Mr. King is probably right.

I also want to remind all the liberals out here today that Mr. King is protected by the 1st amendment and that he "is" entitled to express his opinion.

And once again I say he''s probalby right...........Muslims would probably rejoice in an Obama win.

Folks need to calm down and allow free expression to "continue" to florish in this country.

[hungry1968]

Yep..........Mr. King is probably right.

I also want to remind all the liberals out here today that Mr. King is protected by the 1st amendment and that he "is" entitled to express his opinion.

And once again I say he''''s probalby right...........Muslims would probably rejoice in an Obama win.

Folks need to calm down and allow free expression to "continue" to florish in this country.

Posted by perception5 at 01:04 PM : Mar 08, 2008





You are absolutely right!!! He is 100% fully entitled to help kill McSame''s campaign by showing that most GOPigs are racist, bigoted, scummbags.

Go Mr. King!! Help finish off the campaign!!

LOL!!

[realpatriot1]

T-racyMorgan,

Perhaps because we don''t read the Muslim press like you.

Are you the Manchurian candidate?

[aaabee-2009]

I can''''t figure why anyone would ever vote for a member of the republican party ever again" Posted by hungry1968 at 12:57 PM : Mar 08, 2008

May I respectully disagree?

The Republican party has a country full of good-hearted hard-working average joes in it. Problem is, it has been shanghaied by GOP elitists too, who somehow got control of the party and are now not only taking the party down to deplorable levels, but taking down America too.

I would like to see the Republican party wrestled back from these greedy power-hungry pigs and restored to the original Grand Old Party.

America may well vote in a Dem president out of disgust for the behaviors of this adminsitration, but it isn''t going to fix the Republican party.

The REAL Republicans, they need to step up and fix their party, get it back to its best, and rejoin the Dems to run America the way she''s been run for the past 200 years. Our government is NOT perfect, but its been good enough to be a global example of democracy for lo, these many years.

Neither Dems or Reps are 100% bad or 100% good. We need both parties to keep this country''s government balanced and fair. It''s proven to work.

Decent Republicans are letting a few elitist bad apples steal the party, steal our freedom, and kill American democracy.

[hungry1968]

Why are Libs reuluctant to discuss that editorial columns in Arab newspapers around the world are endorsing Barack?

*H*U*S*S*E*I*N

Posted by T-racyMorgan at 01:13 PM : Mar 08, 2008





What does his heritage have to do with his ability to do the job? Why do the racist GOPigs feel they need to constantly keep bringing it up? Why don''''t you care what nationality Clinton, McCain, Bush, Cheney, etc, etc, are?

Why do idiots like you, think your stupid message is so important that you need to post it 5 or 6 times?

Do you see what happens when you listen to country music?

[mcvet]

That''s all the Nazi''s have left... fear. I guess when you''ve taken the butt whoopin these losers have what else can you do. This nation is hated WORLD WIDE, 15% of the folks in the Middle East have a favorable opinion of us, so much for the Winning of Hearts and Minds, we have spent 6 years and a Trillion Dollars fighting a Civil War in a nation that had NOTHING to do with any attack on us, still haven''t gotten control of that either. We have those who attacked us and those who sheltered them in Pakistan, completely rebuilt and training new recruits every day. Now I do NOT know how it could be any better for the enemy... do you?? Sieg Heil Bush

[aaabee-2009]

Folks need to calm down and allow free expression to "continue" to florish in this country. Posted by perception5 at 01:04 PM : Mar 08, 2008

The next time a used car salesman takes you for a ride, using his freedom of expression to sell you a junker, perhaps you will understand the difference between freedom of expression and propoganda, Mr. Tokyo Rose.

[colvinatch]

Expect nothing more than fear mongering and empty hate filled rhetoric from this GOP, they are what they are, the party that has bankrupted the U.S. Cheered bush on as he bungled the war on terror then proceeded to destroy the middle class... I''ll vote for my dog for congress, president this november before I''ll vote for another republiCON.

[david1737]

All treasonous, pedophiles, and torturers support the GOP.

1. Treason=outing a CIA Operative (Plame). Ex- Congressman (Republican) Mark Deli Siljander sent $130,000 to a known terrorist who has direct connections to al Qaeda.

2. Pedophile=Foley

3. Water Boarding. During WW11 our country convicted and executed eight Japanese officers for the crime of torture (Water Boarding) and yet our own AG refuses to define Water Boarding for what it is torture.

Bottom line the Republicans have been so wrong on so many major policy decisions that they no longer can make predictions on global policy issues and pretend to have any credibility.

[joyous88]

GOP = Unamerican animals, they will say or do anything to stay in power.,

and hillary has joined the Karl Rove section of the republican party, all war profiteers

republicans should be deported to the old soviet union ,their propaganda smells just like Pravda

[aaabee-2009]

Posted by T-racyMorgan at 01:13 PM : Mar 08, 2008

You certainly have talent.

I believe they have a job for you working with Rush Limbaugh. He keeps hitting the same buttons over and over too. LOL

[kojip]

Hello hungry1968, No one ever said you should not speak your mind or that you or anyone who feels the way you do should not express their opinions. We only ask that you raise the conversation up a notch, make it more celebral than your fellow collective member, T-racyMorgan, who all he has brought to the party so far is to mention Barack Obama''s middle name over and over again, Which is starting to get nauseating.

[hungry1968]

May I respectully disagree?

Posted by AaaBee at 01:17 PM : Mar 08, 2008




Of course you may! That is why the forums are here!

After watching for 6 years, the GOP congress, senate, and president hijack and shanghai this country and sacrifice all of the principles that this country was founded on, I firmly believe that they should NEVER be trusted with power or control of this country ever again.

I do believe that there are many, many good hardworking people that consider themselves republicans, but the politicians certainly do not represent them or any other working people in this country. They are THE party of big business and self interest - NOT the representatives of the people.

In my opinion anyway.

[cdfoxtrot]

GOP Rep.: Al Qaeda Would Cheer Obama Win. Actually, I would think that Al Qaeda would want MacOldGuy to win, as it ensures the US stays in Eye-Rack for "up to 100 years" -- thereby guaranteeing a steady stream of new recruits for America''s enemies.

[mrmazerati]

Here''s what I don''t get. We are allied with Muslims in at least five countries: Irag, Afghanistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Republicans obviously support these alliances. So why are certain people trying to tie Obama to Muslims, supposedly to bring him down. According to their own rulebook, it''s a plus, not a negative. Does anyone else see the irony in this?

[cdfoxtrot]

Why are Libs reuluctant to discuss that editorial columns in Arab newspapers around the world are endorsing Barack?

*H*U*S*S*E*I*N

Posted by T-racyMorgan

I don''t know if it''s true or not that Arab newspapers would like to see Senator Obama become president or the basis for you assertion. So what if they do? Also hoping for the Senator are many, many people all over the world who would like to see a more intellectual, reasonable person in the White House, in sharp contrast to the incumbent. I just returned from Europe and I can safely say that Senator Obama enjoys massive support there. And as the saintly Karl Rove recently said on Faux News, he didn''t choose his middle name, so why hold it against him?? Likewise, we shouldn''t discount people named George, in future, just because they have a name in common with the current moron-in-chief.

[anonbene]

When someone from the GOP says anything anymore I just here an annoying buzzing that soon fades away. If there is a more detrimental influence in this country I sure would love to have someone point them out. Hey GOP your threats and scare tactics don''t work here anymore, go away.