Bin Laden Is A Politican's Best Friend Come Election Time

I'm getting a little tired of the stupid political adds on television. I'm especially fed up with ads comparing a candidate to Osama Bin Laden. They may not even compare the two, but will have pictures of them side-by-side. I've heard this occur from both sides of the political spectrum.

Bin Laden is a politician's best friend. He's like that old good luck charm that a person might bust out when he or she feels desperate.

When a scandal is brewing in the White House, Bush is receiving a lot of heat for a decision he made, or his poll ratings are low, then wah-lah, out comes Bin Laden from his grave to strike fear into the people's minds, hearts, and souls and wouldn't you know it? The people were distracted and the attention suddenly diverted from "The War on Terror" being lost to Bin Laden.

When there's a disagreement between the two parties, then they can pull out their Bin Laden card and say something along the lines of, "They're the al-Qaeda candidate" or "Osama Bin Laden would vote for them." First off, Bin Laden is dead, so the guy couldn't vote in the first place and secondly, even if he was a U.S. resident and could legally vote here, how in the world would we know who the guy would vote for? I could say something, but I'm not going to even speculate here.

Both parties, the Republicans and the Democrats need to stop the false, ignorant, and fear-provoking ads to compare the other candidate to Osama Bin Laden. Even if Osama was the "mastermind" behind the 9/11 attacks (of which there's no proof), how in the world can we compare a candidate to a person who is "claimed" to have killed 3,000 people in the attacks? The only candidate(s) we could conceivably compare that to would be people in the White House for their decision to go to war, as 2,600 U.S. soldiers have died, another 10,000 wounded, and 40,000 Iraqis have died as a result. But, thank God, Bush cannot run again (knocks on wood), so we won't have to witness those ads come election time.

Give it up guys! Fear is not going to win my vote. Talk policies and what you're going to do differently and then you'll have my attention.