Hussein was never going to get some permanent poll bounce from killing Bin Laden. He simply carried on the same investigations and operations that the Bush administration had been conducting. While feeding Bin Laden to the crabs is great news, it won’t effect the 2012 elections. Obama is a terrible President who has done a lousy job with the economy, and people vote on the economy far more than anything else. If gas is $4.00 come election day, Obama will almost certainly lose. If unemployment is still over 8%, Obama is likely finished.
Also, Trump is still a complete clown and NOT a conservative. He will go exactly nowhere in the GOP primaries - especially once voters see his record of liberal policy positions and giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats, support for Hillary Clinton, claiming Bush was “evil”, etc, etc. Trump is a goofy sideshow and a complete political non-factor.
Obama has mis-handled this to such a great extent (the entire “me me me” aspect) he’s leaving himself wide open to Donald Trump’s next well-timed skewering.
Obama will come unglued for having the focus taken off his big “me me me” moment.
Probably so bothered, he’ll play more golf.
The rerelease of the long form COLB and the death of OBL all done within a few days of each other....
These were two big issues Trump was pounding Obama with. Then all of sudden it happens...
I’m sorry but I have a feeling if Trump was not pounding Obama with theses issues, then we OBL would still be alive and we would have never seen the long form Certificate of Live Birth.
It’s amazing OBL had been living there for SIX YEARS! Then Obama knew since last August, but he did nothing. Unbelievable!
“Hussein was never going to get some permanent poll bounce from killing Bin Laden.”
The real question is, “How much did most people care about bin Laden anyways?”
After all these years, it’s plenty clear that bin Laden wasn’t needed for al qaeda to function and exist. The underwear bomber came from Yemen, for instance. In addition, any nut we can find can pretty much act as an al qaeda on a whim. bin Laden would have been great had we caught him then, but after all this time, it’s pretty clear he’s not some great arch-villain in the way Hitler or Mussolini was, he’s a useful idiot or figurehead for the cause.
The one argument Obama will make is that he could catch bin Laden with zero torture information. Forget that when so many of us have to face the “torture” called unemployment.