Not content with the slams in the November 3 editorial, Vedder took a nearly unbelievable cheap shot just a few days later. From Vedder's column of November 6:

Herb Levine's lawsuit was a real disappointment. About when I had thought he was working toward building good relations and becoming a constructive person for change, he pulls this political stunt. It obviously didn't work any more than Osama bin Laden's tape did.
-- Bob Vedder, Venice Gondolier Sun print edition, 11/06/04

Since Vedder has never indicated anything but contempt for Levine, the part about Vedder beginning to think kindly about Levine is self-serving bovine excrement:

Congrats to Mayor Dean Calamaras for causing an arrest of Herb Levine, who went too far in his classless haranguing of council and George Hunt. Those meetings deserve to be civil. Way to go, Dean.
-- Bob Vedder, Venice Gondolier-Sun print edition, 09/28/02

Vedder's comparison of Levine's legal and political battles with city hall with that of Osama bin Laden's battle with the United States is a nice bit of hate speech. Levine has protested many things and he's not a likely poster child for political diplomacy, but he has always stayed within the law and he has always acted towards the goal of making city hall behave in a more lawful fashion.

Osama bin Laden is a cold-blooded mass murderer, one of the the worst in the history of modern civilization, certainly the worst of the 21st century.

Somehow, Vedder thought the comparison was appropriate. Why Vedder didn't compare Levine to Hitler while he was at it will remain a mystery.

While I couldn't come up with a pic of Vedder, I did find one of another famous Bob of equal credibility:

http://www.davidstuff.com/bagdad-bob1.jpg

Osama -- hah -- that's a good one. Vedder is such a funny guy. Where does he come up with this hilarious stuff?

Note to Vedder: Just in case you didn't know, it's kind of a bad thing to compare someone who is Jewish, especially someone who claims to be a peaceful political activist, to a mass-murdering terrorist who claims to be Muslim. It's not exactly politically correct.