CNN: Hastert (R-Bloated) Sez al Qaeda Wants Kerry To Win

[stopbush]

Hastert's al Qaeda comment draws fire
Idea that terrorists want Kerry to win called 'silly,' 'disgraceful'

Sunday, September 19, 2004 Posted: 8:38 PM EDT (0038 GMT)

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said al Qaeda wants John Kerry to win the election.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top Democrats slapped back Sunday at a remark by House Speaker Dennis Hastert that al Qaeda leaders want Sen. John Kerry to beat President Bush in November.

At a campaign rally Saturday in his Illinois district with Vice President Dick Cheney, Hastert said al Qaeda "would like to influence this election" with an attack similar to the train bombings in Madrid days before the Spanish national election in March. When a reporter asked Hastert if he thought al Qaeda would operate with more comfort if Kerry were elected, the speaker said, "That's my opinion, yes."

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe called Hastert's comments "disgraceful," saying there was "no room for this in our political discourse. And I remind you that, you know, we could have done a lot better," McAuliffe said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"The president of the United States, on August 6th of 2001, was told in his briefing that America was going to be attacked by al Qaeda and they may use airplanes," McAuliffe said, referring to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He didn't call the FAA. He didn't leave his monthlong vacation. He sat down there."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/19/hastert.remark/index.html

[samsingh]

1. is Hastert talking to Al Queda?

[joanne]

3. Hastert is a nut case

Oh dare I hope Obama's coattails are long enough to ensure a Hastert defeat in November?

I CANT STAND this man!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Hastert is lower than whale crap

at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. He's Tom DeLay's butt-boy. He's a minor-league Jabba the Hutt -- fat, sluglike and evil. What a swine. And guess what -- as Shrieker of the House, he comes right after The Chimpinator and Frankencheney in the line of presidential succession.

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