I think the delay was so that they could get various people secured, in case there is immediate retaliation. This is why some of our bases overseas were put on lockdown yesterday. I am 20 miles away and the skies overhead are full of military craft. There is a lot of police activity on the roads.
There is a crowd outside of the White House singing the Star Spangled Banner and shouting U! S! A!
Obama is going to be reelected.
Claiming credit!!!!!
Obama (paraphrasing ): “The U.S. is not at war with Islam...”
There is a crowd outside of the White House singing the Star Spangled Banner and shouting U! S! A!
Obama is going to be reelected.
I don't think so, there is none of that going on here in flyover country.
That's a rush to judgment. There's still a long way to go before November 2012
Don’t bet your last gallon of gas on it.
“Obama is going to be reelected.”
Unless terrorists start going nuts.....This could have been handled better, like the capture of Saddam was handled. This has been turned into a political spectacle. Obama stating that right after HE took office, he made the capture of OBL a top priority....shameless self-promotion.
I don't think he will receive even a hand full of votes because of this. Most will have forgotten about it, and if they keep crowing about it and trying to keep it alive during the campaign it will begin to sound very unseemly. Republicans and most all independents know who deserves credit for military and intelligence successes.
The economy and unemployment and all matters related to that will be the issues people care about.
“Obama is going to be reelected.”
No, he won’t... At least, not because of Bin Laden being killed. Sure, he may undeservedly receive a hearty 10-15 point bump in the polls during the next week or so, but it will soon dissipate. Remember, capturing and killing Saddam Hussein didn’t stop George W. Bush’s poll numbers from eventually dropping into the low 30s. And George H.W. Bush had a 90% approval rating right after Desert Storm only 22 months before losing his re-election bid in ‘92.
High unemployment, soaring gas and food prices, rising inflation, exploding debt, and an highly unpopular ObamaCare law will all very soon collectively rear its ugly head once again and the death of Usama Bin Laden will quickly become a distant memory for most Americans.