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October surprise. What's the PT board's guess?

Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:27 am
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:27 am
Bob Beckel said yesterday on The Five:

quote:

“I’ll tell you: I would expect an October surprise,” Beckel said on Thursday. “I think I know what is — I’m not going to say it, but I think I know what it is — and it is going to shake things up, and it has to do with national security.”


LINK

Does Beckel have intel on planned domestic terrorist attack?

Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
82952 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:46 am to
quote:

The Five:
no thanks.
Posted by constant cough
Lafayette
Member since Jun 2007
44788 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:53 am to
Obama is gonna kill Bin Laden again.
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14916 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 8:54 am to
quote:

Does Beckel have intel on planned domestic terrorist attack?

Being attacked by an outside force would not qualify as an October surprise.
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
27305 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 9:02 am to
An October surprise coming from who? And who is it supposed to make look bad?

Edit: Nevermind. I clicked the link and figured it out.
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 9:04 am
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
80161 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 9:04 am to
quote:

it is going to shake things up, and it has to do with national security.”



Obama going to call for permanent troops along the border

Or did they stop an imminent attack that we don't know about?
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
118853 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:06 am to
quote:

Or did they stop an imminent attack that we don't know about?


This actually makes a lot of sense.

Obama and the Dems prolly holding out until mid October to release the "news".
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
54212 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:08 am to
quote:

Does Beckel have intel on planned domestic terrorist attack?


Probably. Obama with his pen will cancel Halloween for the children's sake.
Posted by idlewatcher
County Jail
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:12 am to
quote:

Bob Beckel


Since when is he "in the know"?
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45814 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:24 am to
Perhaps?

Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States


quote:

Rep. Tim Bishop (D., N.Y.) warned during a recent speech that up to 40 radicalized U.S. citizens who have fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have already returned to the United States, where they could pose a terrorist threat.

Bishop claims that of the 100 or so Americans who have traveled to the Middle East to join ISIL’s ranks, some 40 have returned and are currently being surveilled by the FBI, according to his remarks, which were filmed and uploaded to YouTube last week.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98195 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:25 am to
Like most October surprises, it will be a big nothing, if it occurs at all.
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
80161 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:28 am to
quote:

This actually makes a lot of sense.

Obama and the Dems prolly holding out until mid October to release the "news".


Its gotta be something positive for Obama and the Dems... Beckel is saying it is in regards to National Security

So they either foiled a huge plot or they are doing something extraordinary to prevent it (Securing the border)
Posted by hashtag
Comfy, AF
Member since Aug 2005
27501 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:51 am to
quote:

they are doing something extraordinary to prevent it (Securing the border)
i can't imagine the lies they'd have to tell to try to convince people that this is even possible at this point. The only thing that will save the Dems in November is going to be derailing individual elections. Republican candidates are going to have to die, not get on the ballet due to Tea Party candidates, or be forced out of the race due to crazy scandals.

I don't think there is really anything that Obama can do to gain votes. In fact, I would imagine that most Democrats in tight elections are going to request that Obama stay away, not endorse, and let them run against some of his stupidity.
Posted by S.E.C. Crazy
Alabama
Member since Feb 2013
7905 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 10:54 am to
Obama's going to tell everyone him and Reggie Love are soulmates and that he is abdicating his throne.

The two will head Hawaii to live happily ever after.
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
81851 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 11:01 am to
An "October surprise" that is momentous enough to effect midterm elections would have to be so huge that it would overshadow the elections anyway.

I doubt there will be something that meets this high bar.
Posted by Plan 9
Earth
Member since Oct 2003
3572 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 12:59 pm to
quote:

Its gotta be something positive for Obama and the Dems


Those words don't go together in any sentence.
Posted by Gray Tiger
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2004
36512 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 3:59 pm to
Obama will reveal that a massive hostile incident has been thwarted due to the diligence of the NSA. The details are secret because there is still an ongoing mission to neutralize the organization that planned it.
Posted by Tactical1
Denham Springs
Member since May 2010
27104 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 4:02 pm to
I am sure it's nothing.
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
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Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 9/19/14 at 4:03 pm to
Hillary reveals her lesbian relationship with Huma.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69312 posts
Posted on 9/19/14 at 4:03 pm to
Wasn't there an October surprise against Romney?
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