Gave it about five minutes worth of coverage and moved on to the Pentagon press conference fiasco, bad economic news, and bad news week Bush has suffered. I think this forum has greatly exaggerated the impact of this tape. In fact, George Stephanopoulos went so far as to say that the tape will be a wash in this campaign. A lot of these things which we thought would dominate election coverage end up evaporating by the next day. Commentators have noted that this tape features a calm, rational Osama Bin Laden, a departure from the wild-eyed, ranting scruffy giant man.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Bush said Friday that ``Americans will not be intimidated'' by Osama bin Laden as a new videotape of the terrorist leader surfaced four days before the election. Campaign rival John Kerry criticized Bush for failing to capture bin Laden earlier and said that ``I can run a more effective war on terror.''