Move over Karl Rove, the real mastermind behind George Bush's 2004 re-election is Osama Bin Laden.

"We would like to give a shout out to our man George Bush in America! We could not have done it without you homey!"

U.S. President George W. Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls, The Examiner newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Bush said there were "enormous amounts of discussion" inside his campaign about the 15-minute tape, which he called "an interesting entry by our enemy" into the presidential race.

"I thought it was going to help," Bush said. "I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush to be the president, something must be right with Bush."

Is there really any doubt that Osama loves having an imbecile like George Bush as his main opponent? I have no doubt that Bin Laden believed that releasing that tape would indeed help Bush in his bid for re-election. It seems obvious that everything is going Osama's way lately.