Agreed, and as much as it pains me to say it, there’s really no room to criticize him on this. If this exact same thing happened on May 1, 2008 Republicans and conservatives everywhere would be hailing Bush as the greatest thing ever and celebrating how he got Bin Laden. Or if it happened and McCain was President. Obama should get credit on this.
I also give him credit for ordering the raid in the first place. I don’t think Bill Clinton would have done such a thing(he’d have stuck with cruise missiles and likely not gotten him).
Politically this is obviously a huge win for Obama. There’s really nothing to say in opposition to it and it pretty much neutralizes any criticism of his foreign policy or security policy going forward. Imagine the 2012 debate when whoever the GOP nominee is brings up something security related and he just says “I’m sorry Mitt(or whoever), could you repeat that, I was just thinking about what happened when we killed Bin Laden and I missed what you said...”
Fortunately, this happened now and there’s still plenty of time until Nov 2012. Lots can happen, just ask W’s father.
But going forward it will likely rise and fall on the economy. If gas prices continue to rise and inflation grows he’ll be in trouble even with this.
For now, though, it’s a huge win, and it will likely last for some time.
Not one ounce of credit. Not one inch of credit to the Left.
I will not forget the past 10 years. Never.
Liberals did everything in their power to obstruct the prosecution of the war, to handicap and demonize our troops, to defund their operations, to cut budgets on intelligence, and where they didn’t cut it, to effectively hamstring it.
The Left took the side of the terrorists every chance they got. Liberals did their best to scream in one ear of our troops in the field and down in Gitmo while they tried to do their jobs, making it difficult and attempting to demoralize them. They tried to force civilian trials and grant the rights of citizenship to these scumbags who were responsible or complicit by ideology in the gruesome deaths of thousands of innocent Americans.
I WILL NOT FORGET WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. Never
I give all the credit to the US military and those intelligence agencies that have been able to continue functioning in spite of the left.
But I will NEVER give any credit to the Left in this. NEVER. NEVER. NEVER.
I wasn’t here last night. I wasn’t anywhere online except Facebook. I broke the news to my nephew from the Rummy tweet that we may have killed Bin Laden.
He CALLED me and together we surfed and found official confirmation.
He’s going to deploy soon for training to deploy for his third tour.
He reminded me not to be too happy because of possible retribution...but I was happy.
I just didn’t want to see ANY political codswallop.
I wanted to savor that moment. It wasn’t about politics...it was about 9/11.
And terrorism didn’t start on 9/11....the idea that us striking against it is CAUSING it is bollocks.
I moved to Belgium with my family in 1985. Terrorists had just hit the NATO Support Activity there. At 15, I had to take anti-terrorist training at the embassy....so
ALL of this has hit it’s gigantic huge pinnable carbuncle point.
I hope that it wanes now. I put my hands together and I PRAY that we no longer seek blood vengeance. Let’s REALLY end it .... but it means that THEY have to start....
I am hopeful. I am scarred from the past. I am positive for the future and feel that we are strong.
One man can’t really bring CHANGE ... CHANGE will come when people discover freedom.
God help and guide us.