After the Middle East Media Research Institute released its controversial translation of Osama bin Laden’s speech claiming that Osama was threatening U.S. states that vote for Bush, I was struck by the unfairness of it. I live in a federal district that has three electoral votes and all three of them will be cast for John Kerry. Indeed, the District of Columbia will go for Kerry by a much larger margin than will any state in the union. I guarantee that it will be at least 85%. Really; Gore got that much in 2000 and the Democrats weren’t as mad as they are this year. But will that overwhelming support for John Kerry cause Osama to take the District of Columbia off of his hit list? No way.
It’s just not fair.