US election diary: The mask slips

Article on Al Jazeera

And now we have Charlie Black, John McCain's chief strategist, voicing another unspeakable yet widely held belief: A terror strike would be good for McCain.

"Certainly it would be a big advantage to him," Black told Fortune magazine.

McCain himself said of the bin Laden eruption: "I think it's very helpful to President Bush. It focuses America's attention on the war on terrorism. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I think it does have an effect."

"Intentional?" Did McCain think maybe, just maybe, bin Laden may prefer Bush in the White House?

I like browsing Al-Jazeera every now and again to get a just slightly different perspective from the CNN and BBC news-listings. This is another nugget of gold I think... Consider this article comes from a main-stream source that is very popular in Middle-East.. and actually widespread all over the world.. And now look at the ideas that have been expressed and hinted at...

Fun read..

reply to post by Alphard


Actually, Al Jazeera is a fairly well-respected news source across to the globe. I catch it on Link TV sometimes. Sometimes they have better information than our news media is allowed to report on.

If you want a slanted perspective, keep watching American "news".