McCain is in a position similar to Rudy Guliani in the early days of the primary process. He has high name recognition and is generally liked. However, the more people learn about him, the less they will like him. Once the Democrats start going after McCain, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel. He voted for 99% of Bush's requests, so he will not be able to escape from the shadow of Bush's disasterous presidency.

Just add it to the list of the plethora of reasons why Pelosi and Ried should resign their "leadership" roles and afford someone with balls the opportunity to punish these criminals for what they have done to this once proud Republic. Nauseating to the "Nth" degree. Impeach now. The rest is just a colossal waste of time...

Isn't ironic that this administration could find Hussien yet, five years later no bin Laden.

This was a part of the plan of which bin Laden is also a participant. Rich Rich Rich Saudi Family.

No bin Laden, no justification to murder innocence.

Isn't ironic that this administration could find Hussien yet, five years later no bin Laden.

This was a part of the plan of which bin Laden is also a participant. Rich Rich Rich Saudi Family.

No bin Laden, no justification to murder innocence.

Isn't it ironic that this administration could find Hussien yet, six years later no bin Laden.

This was a part of the plan of which bin Laden is also a participant. Rich Rich Rich Saudi Family.

No bin Laden, no justification to murder innocence.

So you see, Bush isn't a total moron.

At least he knows that Bin Laden is dead, which puts him above the curve of 90 percent of America.

It's buried in the desert with all those WMD's, Jimmy Hoffa, Bush's intellect, and Cheney's soul...

"hundreds of thousands"

Nothing would make the neocons happier than another strike by OBL in the US.

They would round up all the dissidents in the name of fighting terror and declare martial law.

After all, they didn't lift a finger to stop September 11th, did they? And they did benefit greatly from September 11th - at the expense of hundreds of innocent human beings in the Middle East and USA.

Like Bush said, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me - can't get fooled again."

I thought the wording on the tombstone of the Bush administration was going to be "Nobody could have foreseen ________ ."

Re: "I can't wait to hear the White House's spin on this one."

The White House doesn't have to spin anything. All the Bush Team has to do is ignore the issue and it will go away. After all, some time in the next three days, someone who Barak Obama once passed on the street will turn out to owe child support and our mainstream media will launch into an "Obama loves deadbeat dads" frenzy.

Ther is virtually ZERO chance that this item will even be reported on any of the network/cable news shows tonight, let alone anyone asking follow-up questions a day from now.

Commander Codpiece told us a couple of years ago that he doesn't really think about Osama bin Laden much anymore. So, why are you stressing about it?

Osama's probably kicking it with his boys in Dubai or driving a taxi in Brooklyn.

Maybe we should adopt Obama's plan, and invade Pakistan.

Hey, at least it's not Iraq.

http://abcnews.go.com/politics/Story?id=3434573&page=1

My Dog, are we not getting tired of hearing this phrase? It belongs on the tombstone of the Bush Administration, which can't die and be buried soon enough!

I thought duct tape and plastic was the plan.

...in Cincinnati. He's had plastic surgery, changed his name to Carlos, and now works at the Kwick Car Wash downtown. You intel turkeys have been lookin' in the wrong place!

Bush doesn't want to catch Osama because Osama is too useful as the Republican boogeyman. That's why we bungled the job at Tora Bora and then diverted attention to Iraq without finishing the job in Afghanistan.

I agree that the White House spin will play up the classified angle with a possible nod to the "complexity" angle, stating that the issues surrounding the hunt for Bin Ladin are so complex that we lowly American taxpayers wouldn't understand it if we saw it.

As for the lack of a plan itself, the fact is that Bin Ladin is much more useful to them alive and at large than he would be eithe dead or captured.

Of course, that may change come October or so depending on the polls.

Let's face it, if we had 50 of the US military's best covert operations operatives on this case, they would be able to find, black bag and relocate Bin Ladin for a public capture in any country they could be legally operating in.

What I would like to see is an admission on the part of the White House that the current regime in Pakistan has not allowed us to conduct serious operations there. Then Bush and Co would have to explain their description of Mushareff as a friend and ally in the war on terror.

You'd know that we HAVE struck inside the Pakistani tribal regions, using unmanned drones. And the CIA is pretty active in that area, probably conducting those fancy "black ops".

But here's the deal:

Pakistan will NEVER allow the US to send troops in there to search for Bin Laden. There would be a nationwide revolt (even worse than what's going on right now) and Musharraf knows it. Instead of pissing another Muslim country off, particularly one with nuclear weapons, the US has the Pakistani army conduct the raids, and the US does its stuff under the radar.

If Barack thinks he's just going to march the Army in there and find Bin Laden, he is mistaken. Good luck with that.

No one REALLY expected Bush to have a plan did they? He never had a plan before beyond plundering the treasury for his cronies. He was the first commander in history to go to war without a plan. Did anyone actually believe he had a plan to catch Osama bin Laden? Come on... Nobody is that dumb.