One Choice: Obama

     As Obama surges ahead in the polls, knowing the tactics used by the GOP in the past, I’m just waiting for the other foot to drop. That is, when will they produce the October surprise?
     Remember the last presidential election? Everytime John Kerry had a boost in the polls, there would be a rise in the terror alert color code. The most heinous example of this was right after the Democratic National Convention when Tom Ridge raised the alert based on information that was several years old. It worked, of course, and Bush’s numbers improved.
     These fluctuations followed by terror alarms were documented by Keith Olbermann. With his signature savvy, Olbermann dubbed it The Nexus of Politics and Terror.
     Well, there is worldwide buzz gathering that another major terror attack is imminent. Concern is so high in Great Britain that it is being called “at the severe end of severe.” 
     And now today, the anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, we learn on Jim Popkin’s post at NBC’s Deep Background that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a message yesterday to “U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives.” Popkin adds “Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have ‘no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States.’ The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because ‘it is important for local authorities and building owners and operators to be aware of potential attack tactics.’”
     How is this not unlike the Ridge terror level raise after Kerry and Edwards got a big boost in the polls back in 2004?
     It’s another thing that makes you go hmmm about this administration and the GOP in general. Isn’t frightening the bejesus out of citizens to give your candidate a boost in the polls a form of…. how did Sarah Palin put it?… domestic terrorism?