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Obama’s bin Laden ad “despicable,” says … Arianna Huffington (Watch Video)
Hotair ^ | 04/30/2012 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 04/30/2012 1:35:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

And she's exactly correct. On CBS This Morning, progressive activist Arianna Huffington slammed the Obama re-election campaign for questioning whether Mitt Romney would have made the call to take out Osama bin Laden, and equated it with Hillary Clinton's "3 AM call" ad in 2008:

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"I don't think there should be an ad about that," Huffington said Monday on "CBS This Morning". "I think it's one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job (with television specials). All that is perfectly legitimate. But to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do."

She added, “It’s the same thing Hillary Clinton did with the 3 a.m. call. ‘You’re not ready to be commander-in-chief.’ It’s also what makes politicians and political leaders act irrationally when it comes to matters of war because they’re so afraid to be called wimps, that they make decisions, which are incredible destructive for the country. I’m sure the president would not have escalated in Afghanistan if he was not as concerned, as Democrats are, that Republicans are going to use not escalating against him in a campaign.”

Panelist Gayle King challenged Huffington over whether Obama is allowed to tout his accomplishments, but Huffington replied that Obama and his team did something very different in this ad:

“So in a campaign, aren’t you supposed to tout your accomplishments of what you’ve done,” Gayle King asked.

Huffington replied, “That’s not just what the ad does. What the ad does is questions. … (The ad) quotes a snippet from Romney and uses that to imply that Romney would not has been as decisive. There’s no way to know whether Romney would have been as decisive. To actually speculate that he wouldn’t be is, to me, not the way to run a campaign, on either side.”

Exactly correct. Obama would be on firm ground to highlight that victory in the war on terror, as he does in his tedious “Forward” campaign video. Implying that Romney would have let Osama bin Laden go under those circumstances is, as Huffington says, despicable.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ariannahuffington; obama; osamabinladen

1 posted on 04/30/2012 1:35:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

But she’ll vote for him anyway.


2 posted on 04/30/2012 1:38:24 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I had no idea that Obama was a shooter. Shame on me.


3 posted on 04/30/2012 1:40:58 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Could this be Ubama's Walter Cronkite moment?

“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” – Lyndon Johnson, February 27, 1968

“If I’ve lost Huffington, I’ve lost Leftist America.” – Barack Hussein Ubama, April 30, 2012

4 posted on 04/30/2012 1:40:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t know what got into Arianna, but I remember she was quite conservative in the 1990’s, even debating the ACLU on TV.

Something must have snapped....


5 posted on 04/30/2012 1:43:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey, Obama, we’re impressed, you’re a killer (as Ratso Rizzo told Joe Buck). Fact is, any American president would have made the same call. We just thank God that you had the resources to make that call. If more people of your ilk had had their way those weapons wouldn’t have been available. Yeah, we’re impressed - you’re a bad ass. Now go back to having hip hop and rap “artists” come over for a day visit. You are pathetic.


6 posted on 04/30/2012 1:45:21 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: SeekAndFind
You're deshpicable!

7 posted on 04/30/2012 1:46:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Lurker
He must have et a poodle to get Zsa Zsa after him.
8 posted on 04/30/2012 1:48:39 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("So the RINOs won with Romney--u gonna root for the Commies now!?!?")
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To: SeekAndFind

She was Conservative..She and Brietbart were good friends and I think they remained good friends. Perhaps his death awakened Ariana...


9 posted on 04/30/2012 1:49:43 PM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: SeekAndFind

First Obama passes the blame for anything gone wrong to Bush, then he takes credit for a call made by an Admiral who actually made it.


10 posted on 04/30/2012 1:57:21 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: SeekAndFind

What;s despicable are those that will vote for the idiot MARXIST again.


11 posted on 04/30/2012 1:58:29 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Lurker

Arainna and others awakening to Obama’s discpicability.


12 posted on 04/30/2012 2:00:35 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Venturer

The only people who get any credit for Osoma’s demise are the brave military personnel who took part in the physical action to take him out.


13 posted on 04/30/2012 2:11:31 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
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To: SeekAndFind
What took her so long to notice that the guy is a fraud and an agitator?
Five minutes into the first speech I ever saw I knew that.
14 posted on 04/30/2012 2:13:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: SeekAndFind
My God...a short flash of decency.I'm genuinely stunned.
15 posted on 04/30/2012 2:17:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: SeekAndFind
but the boy didn't make the call... the Admiral did!!!
16 posted on 04/30/2012 3:11:49 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama gloats over his bravery in this decision. Is he equally proud of his brave sacrifice of double the number of soldiers lost in Afghanistan in half the time as Bush? The only campaign pledge he has followed through with is audacity. He has plenty of that.


17 posted on 04/30/2012 4:10:17 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

This is payback for Obama’s diss of Huffington at the WHCD. He “congratulated “ her for a great business model..just linking to other sources, and NOT paying the people who blog for the HuffPo.


18 posted on 04/30/2012 4:14:14 PM PDT by ken5050 (FRACK Obama!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s wonderful that people are discovering what a failure Obama is, even if 3 years too late.

The more press we see like this the better. The folks unable/unwilling to think will follow this stuff as much as anything else.


19 posted on 04/30/2012 4:33:56 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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