"It's about time! Obama got it done! This is gonna get him re-elected for sure!" (Note sign on left:"Obama= 1 Osama = 0")
Posted on 05/01/2011 10:35:07 PM PDT by pillut48
Folks partying at Ground Zero, celebrating death of Osama bin Laden...turning into a giant campaign party for Obama...I would like to think it is a spontaneous mixed outpouring of support for America, but wonder if there's an astroturf, pro-Obama flash mob setup happening here?
Give the Zero the credit he is due. If he hadn’t gone against the nutbags by not closing GITMO where intelligence was garnered, by continuing to fight the war (not to mention fighting MORE wars of which we have no business fighting), by continuing the Bush Doctrine, and by having poll numbers so low that he finally had to give the order to move on Osama, we wouldn’t have Osama’s body now. He didn’t pull a Clinton. He got the pig and I thank him for it.
I've been watching the coverage all night, mostly on Fox News, but also CNN. The "tourists" (as Wolf Blitzer called them earlier tonight) started gathering in front of the White House shortly after 10:30pm ET, well before Obummer finally got around to his speech.
As I expected, most of these "tourists" turned out to be college kids, streaming off the Metro in DC, and mostly George Washington University students, which is only a few blocks away from the WH. The crowd in front of the White House grew VERY quickly, I'm sure summoned by their friends via text msg and Twitter, etc. The crowd got so big they spilled into Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House.
For the past 3 hours, as I watched the live video, I saw several Obama/Biden signs (the blue 2008 campaign signs), plus other blue Obama campaign signs like "Change We Can Believe In", one said something like "ONE World", etc. I did see one guy with an old Bush/Cheney sign.
Geraldo got out into the middle of the crowd... most of the kids seemed elated and chanted "USA! USA!", but there were a few who managed to shout praise for "President Obama". Some were shouting: "Obama! Obama!"
Also in the crowd there were a few former Marines who happily said a few words, one said he had served in Afghanistan. THAT was nice...
You do have a point there. If that dirtbag Clintoon got bin Laden when he had his chance in 1998, there would be MANY more innocent people - Americans and people of other nations, including Muslims - alive today.
USA! USA! NYC RIP!
praise to the president?? wtf??
are these supposed to be Americans?
and since when do we gather and dance over the killing of an enemy? those are the actions of barbarians and not the actions of the just.
this is just odd. definite astroturf
Weird is right. Hopefully we’ll get all the facts about these ‘spontaneous’ mobs tomorrow...guess that’s all the coverage of Ground Zero celebration...the Bravest is showing some Muslim ceremony? Looks like Karzai(sp?) in the front row, don’t think it’s a mosque, there’s men and women sitting mixed...
I guess hanging out with Giffords wasn’t working for him anymore.
How did all the American flags become available in such a short time? In front of the White House ( students from G.W.U. are not known as patriotic as Texas A&M students) Also in Times Sq !
My guess is it started out as a flash mob, alerted by cell phone/text/twitter/facebook, because I’ve seen a lot of reports from miscellaneous websites that there were Obama signs brought ::rolls eyes:: BEFORE ANY ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE, and those brand new flags...sure, maybe those NYU students at Ground Zero and those at the WH were ‘spontaneous’, with all the un-transparency from the current regime? I have questions.
Eventually as the news spread regular folks joined the crowds, like the ones that formed when V-E Day was announced after WWII...probably the most touching scene I saw last night was when the New York Fire Department officers climbed the traffic light pole (initially it looked like they were chasing folks down) but then they helped unfurl flags too and the crowd began saying the Pledge of Allegiance...just saw that scene was put on Youtube, and Fox just showed a snippet of it, that may be the iconic image to come out of this historic event.
Yes, it’s great news that OBL is dead; should’ve burned him in public IMO but I can see how Muslims would react to that (angry remembering those poor American people murdered and hung from bridges and dragged through streets of foreign countries after they were killed >:-( Some of those ‘spontaneous’ mobs turned into free campaign publicity for Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is calling for America to get out of Afghanistan immediately, OBL’s compound was within 100 yds of a major military/police training center in Pakistan (?!)...did the world just become a SAFER place for my little children because of OBL’s death? Or a MORE DANGEROUS one? :-(
Indeed. But if they are organized by "moderate" muslims, they WOULD publically celebrate a killing, and use phrases like "praise the president."
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