Psssst....Patty Murray loves Osama....pass it on! While it's not known whether U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Osama bin Laden have actually gone so far as to exchange class rings, it's obvious from comments the she made to a group of high school students in her home state of Washington that she really, really, really admires the al-Qaeda mass murderer.
The Columbian (via
Drudge) reports that in answering questions from students, Murray, a Democrat (of course!!), in effect characterized bin Laden as a role model for good citizenship:
We've got to ask, why is this man [Osama bin Laden]
so popular around the world? Why are people so supportive of him in many countries … that are riddled with poverty? He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?
Patty sounds like she's describing her dream man. Does she lock her Senate office door, remove her shoes, put on a 45rpm record of The Shangri-las singing
Leader of the Pack and lounge on the floor while thumbing through the latest issue of
Terrorist Beat magazine and dreamily repeating aloud "Patty bin Laden, Patty bin Laden, Patty bin Laden"?
I hate to break it to you, Patty, but Osama won't be taking you to the prom because he's dead!
Look out! Look out! Look out! Look out!
I felt so helpless, what could I do?
Remembering all the things we'd been through
In school they all stop and stare
I can't hide the tears, but I don't care
I'll never forget him, the leader of the pack
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
The leader of the pack - now he's gone
