I’m kind of in your camp, and I was discussing this the other day. My view is that Conservatives can act like whining meemies on every little fault or non-fault of 0bama or can attempt to select issues that have meat on their bones. “Choose your battles” if you will. Some criticized me for not pointing out every little defect or perceived fault of 0bama, claiming we have to attack on every front. While accepting the argument, I don’t agree. We have to ackonlwedge at some point that we are out media’ed and outstupided.
AFAIK, there’s literally no way to know whether 0bama gave the order, didn’t give the order, wished them well, hated their white asses, or pretended to go to church. And IMO it doesn’t matter. The SEALs op was a success, he’ll be credited. End of story. Had it failed, he would have been critical and would have wanted more negotiating time. In the bumper-sticker depth of thinking that prevails, that’s what we have to work with.
I'm with you. There seems to be an immediate knee-jerk anti response to ANYTHING Obama does, and it gets tiresome because we're preaching to the choir and all know this is gonna be one lousy administration. I thought the early know-nothing criticism of O when the skipper was saved was off-base and got some replies on that. While our captains have certain standing orders, I don't see them shooting up anybody, unless they have the explicit OK of Washington.
AFAIK, there’s literally no way to know whether 0bama gave the order, didn’t give the order, wished them well, hated their white asses, or pretended to go to church. And IMO it doesn’t matter.
Spot On. We got the buggers (too bad about one surviving) and the president gets the glory - that's reality. Any speculation beyond that is akin to arguing over how many angels fit on the head of a pin.