A Mandate was Awarded

There was one politician in the 2004 Presidential election who received a mandate based on the American popular vote. It wasn’t the President, nor his rival Democratic Senator John Kerry, but a candidate running a popular race extra-Constitutionally. His campaign was not for the Presidency, however, but a campaign to win public support for his war on terror, and he has now received the Mandate he needed. Osama Bin Laden now has the license he needed to wage all-out war with the United States.

Bush stated (paraphrased), “Osama Bin Laden will do anything to destroy our American Way of Life, our values. He hates freedom.” If that’s true, Bin Laden now has more authority than ever to wage war against the American aggressors. According to the President, Bin Laden hates America, and as such, it was a brilliant political strategy on Bin Laden’s part to help convince Americans to vote for George Bush.

Neoconservatives immediately cried “Osama Bin Laden votes for Kerry,” and therefore logically determined that to remain safe, America needed to vote for Bush. After all, if Bin Laden endorses Kerry, wouldn’t it be prudent to have a president who will crush Bin Laden?

On the contrary, Bin Laden wanted Bush in power. Bush’s religious fanaticism reveals his Christian war to be more self-evident, which gives Bin Laden not only support from the actual terrorists, but the Muslim populace as well. Bin Laden is no longer seen as a fanatical fringe political terrorist, he now as the recognition as a legitimate freedom fighter for “Islamic” ideals against American aggression. Thanks to the brilliant campaign strategy of Karl Rove, the buffoonery of his elected President, and the unwitting wishes of the American politic, Osama Bin Laden now has a mandate to expand his evil war on the West. Bush’s move is next, and the thought of the subsequent Bin Laden action is frightening.