Is Madeleine Albright's Osama Bin Ladin Prophecy Coming True Eight Years Later?

Viewers of Fox News may remember Madeleine Albright accusing George W. Bush of hiding Osama Bin Ladin away for an "October surprise." Albright, the former Clinton Secretary of State made her prophecy on a December 2003 episode of Fox News.

On 12/18/03, David Adams, writing for The Guardian (UK) asked "On December 17, in a Fox News interview, while musing about the alleged capture of Saddam Hussein, Madeline Albright said the Neocon/Bush regime may reveal bin Laden's capture as an "October surprise", just before the 2004 presidential elections. We are now How did the US confirm Saddam's identity so quickly?hard-pressed to find the actual transcript of those comments on Fox News, but they are reported elsewhere, verbatum. The actual transcript Fox News is now downplaying Albright's comments featuring her claim that the comment was made "tongue in cheek". But Fox News analyst and Roll Call executive editor Mort Kondracke. "She was not smiling."

Of course Bill O'Reilly had his say over Albright's comments. Fox bashed Albright a few days later for even suggesting such a thing.

Now with Obama's approval ratings low and facing a tough challenge for reelection, Albright's prophecy appears like it could be eight years late--accurate to some degree, but late. After all it does seem ironic that Obama continues to fail to produce credible evidence of Osama Bin Ladin's death. He quickly buried Bin Laden at sea claiming he was honoring an Islamic tradition, despite an Islamic expert saying otherwise. Now the Obama administration is backing away from the promised pictures of the corpse with the fear they may be insensitive to Muslims around the world.

The drama over Obama proof of kill continues to build. What's funny again is the words of Democrats seem to haunt their own. Consider what we already know about Democrats and Obama's approval ratings. Remember what Mark Penn said Obama needed to jump start his approval numbers?