The New York Post:

Osama bin Laden’s newest tape may have thrust him to the forefront of the presidential election, but what was not seen was the cave-dwelling terror lord talking about the setbacks al Qaeda has faced in recent months. Officials said that in the 18-minute long tape — of which only six minutes were aired on the al-Jazeera Arab television network in the Middle East on Friday — bin Laden bemoans the recent democratic elections in Afghanistan and the lack of violence involved with it.

On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military’s unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

A portion of the left-out footage includes a tirade aimed at President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, claiming the war in Iraq is purely over oil.

What really astounds me is that there are unhinged lefties out there who actually find themselves grudgingly admitting that a) OBL is much more articulate than our president, or b) that OBL agrees with them, or the other way around.

It’s not really that hard to reexamine oneself once America’s most wanted terrorist is spouting off your party’s talking points. Unless, of course, you want to award him honorary membership into your equine party. I mean, he does have a taste for sodomizing quadripeds…

(Provenance: Wizbang » Volokh » NYPost)