Where's Osama? must be Kerry's knock-out punch.

[Guaranteed]

If he gets off a good barrage against Bush about how he's made us less safe by invading Iraq, this MUST be his final line. i.e. "....and after all of that, Mr. President, where in the hell is Osama bin LADEN??"

[okieinpain]

1. stay out of my head please. I was thinking bush goes flip/flop

and kerry goes "it takes one to know one, and by the way where's osama".

[Maple]

2. Ooooh bad choice

Bush could produce Osama tomorrow...where would that leave Kerry?

[Guaranteed]

3. Oh come on...that is NOT going to happen.

And if Bush gets Osama tomorrow, he'll win anyway.

But they wouldn't do that because it would just look like a political move.

[K8-EEE]

6. NO....But Definitely Stress He Should Have Gotten Him THEN...

Too risky, they COULD have him as an ace in the hole....but like Richard Clarke said, if they catch him now, he's already grown a million heads, it doesn't even matter any more.

[Guaranteed]

8. First off, they're NOT going to do that!

They don't have him!

And, like I said before, if they DID, just WEEKS before the election, it would look like they were playing games with our national security for political reasons. It would NOT go over well.

[beaconess]

7. Since when has Bush backed off of doing something because it looks

too political?

[Shoeempress]

9. Yeah and they would never do anything which looked political.

[Guaranteed]

13. IF THEY TROT OUT BIN LADEN, THEY WIN ANYWAY.

So DO it. God.

[Shoeempress]

15. No Sh%*. That's why he's in Rumsfeld's Basement right now

[Guaranteed]

18. If that's the case, then we've already lost and there's no point in NOT

hitting him with it.

[Shoeempress]

20. No Sh$*

[jean]

4. rove could roll bin Ladin out before the debate ends

[beaconess]

5. I don't agree

I think it's a bad strategy to place so much emphasis on something that is completely out of his control.

The last thing he needs is to demand to know where bin Laden is only to have Bush pop up with him in the next few weeks.

Kerry should stress that Bush has completely fallen down on his promise to get bin Laden and frame the issue in a way that it won't matter whether bin Laden turns up now or not - that in allowing bin Laden to stay free as long as he did, he allowed him to expand al Quaeda to a degree that threatens us all. That way, if bin Laden, is caught, Kerry can say, "that's great. Glad you finally got him. But it's a day late and a dollar short."

But I definitely think he should not make "where's Osama" a punchline - it could come back to bite him big time at the worst possible moment.

[Guaranteed]

10. Jesus Christ. Rove got in your heads.

HIT HIM WITH FUCKING BIN LADEN, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

[desiindian]

11. Mr. Kerry, please keep saying.........we did not find Osama or

where is Osama or some variations like that. Keep repeating. Like Karl believes, if you say something enough times people will believe it. Perception matters.

[Guaranteed]

12. Perception???

WTF are you talking about? We DON'T HAVE bin Laden. That's the TRUTH.

[hughee99]

14. They may find him tonight

during the debate if * looks like he's in trouble. This will distract many people from even watching it (the networks may even cut away from the debate), and help his polls even if Kerry wipes the floor with him.

[Zynx]

16. It's a good way of counteracting a Bush line that could do us damage.

Bush will say, "My opponent believes that we are not safer with Saddam Hussein out of power."

Kerry can respond, "We're not nearly as safe as we would be if we had Osama Bin Laden's head in a box."

[Guaranteed]

17. Don't you all think that if they did have Osama, they'd be talking him up?

Wouldn't that be all that they talk about, like they did with Saddam?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

19. But then...

Bush might rip off his mask, revealing that he IS Osama bin Laden, and say: "And it would have worked, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"

[Jane Austin]

21. No!

This is one they could actually bring about.

The issue isn't "please produce him as promised" , the issue is what the heck is all this other stuff you've been doing.