This campaign message sponsored by ... | Metafilter: "How's this for an alternative explanation? OBL isn't stupid. He knows he can get Bush to play into his hands: blunder into Iraq, fan the flames of Islamic dissent etc. He's not so sure about Kerry. He's plotting several steps ahead: he thinks, as Bush et al. probably do, that an imminent threat to America, especially one from bin Laden, is going to influence voters to elect to stay with the Commander in Chief. He's playing you people like marionettes!"