a campaign appearance

A couple of weeks ago, the President made a speech saying that those in the opposition party who didn’t support the war in Iraq were in the party of “cut and run.” I don’t think the Commander-in-Chief gave much thought to the rationale that he was insulting the majority of the American people, because only a minority support his failed Iraq policy.

Yesterday the Chief Executive made the comment that the opposition party was celebrating prematurely their victory at the polls in two weeks.

Today, Donald Rumsfeld said that critics should “back off” in their insistence of a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. One could not be blamed for assuming that the white house was admitting the possibility of defeat the week after next in the mid-term elections.

I say that we shouldn’t jump to any conclusions about this election being over. You may recall in the 2004 presidential campaign, the incumbent went into the final weekend of the race trailing in the polls. However, then, as I believe he will do in the next week or so, the President pulled out his big gun. You may remember that he got a last minute stump speech from his top supporter Osama Bin Laden. I think that we are going to get to see on our televisions the less-than-handsome countenance of the world’s number one republican sometime soon. I think that Osama is going to tell us we are right for opposing the war and that we are right opposing President Bush’s policies. I think he will tell us that we are right in our opposition to the Republican incumbents in congress.

I think that worthless Saudi Arabian pile of feces will say something that will sway the election, just like he did in 2004. And when that happens, can you imagine how much our government will be indebted to that less-than-fresh-smelling camel jockey? And what will ol’ Osama want in return? Will he want more representation of the Taliban in the government of Afghanistan? Will he want us to recognize Mummar Al-Qadaffi as an ally?

Oh, wait. We have already given him both of those things. Whatever he wants, though, he knows that our current government will give it to him.

Maybe this time, though, we’ll have the guts and foresight to throw Osama, George and their kind out. You can call it the optimist in me, but sometimes you just have to hope for the best.

At least that is our hope here in Jimbo’s world.