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Make it stop, New Mexico cried. Yes, yes. I feel your pain.

This morning in the NYT, Maureen Dowd discusses the OBL video and the big question -- who it benefits. Some good zingers:

The Bushies' campaign pitch follows their usual backward logic: Because we have failed to make you safe, you should re-elect us to make you safer. Because we haven't caught Osama in three years, you need us to catch Osama in the next four years. Because we didn't bother to secure explosives in Iraq, you can count on us to make sure those explosives aren't used against you.

In Washington, the Redskins lost to the Green Bay Packers. So what? As MSNBC's Keith Olbermann explained this week at some length, the Washington Redskins' final home game before the election has predicted the presidential winner for the past 70 years: If the Redskins lose their last home game before the election, the incumbent loses. So if the Red Sox weren't enough, surely this is.

Perhaps the Red Sox winning the World Series wasn't enough to make hell freeze over, but sure this will do it: in Florida today, Karl Rove exclaimed, "Viva Cuba!"