Posted on 05/01/2011 10:04:40 PM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
Edited on 05/01/2011 10:13:20 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ASHINGTON (AP) — A large crowd has gathered in front of the White House to celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Chants of "U-S-A, U-S-A" are breaking out periodically, and people are waving U.S. flags and taking photos. They're also singing the national anthem.
Will Ditto, a legislative aide, says he was getting ready to go to bed when his mom called him with the news. He decided to leave his home on Capitol Hill and join the crowd, and as he rode the Metro subway system to the White House, he told fellow passengers the news.
Ditto calls the news of Bin Laden's death "huge" and says "it's a great day to be an American."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Americans have kept their promise after Sept. 11 to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
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Only yesterday, Obama was making gun of overt flag waving patriotism with his “I am a real American” bit.
And the group that Whoraldo interviewed were changing 0bama 0bama..I think the delay for this announcement, which was not well scrubbed if you listen to it carefully,was to round up supporters for 0bama to make him look good..a war president..and where did they get those large flags on a Sunday night this late even in DC? I think it was another set up in DC but the NY scene developed more slowly.
History will record that these demonstrations were planned and orchestrated by friends of the Administration.
I’m sorry you’re so cynical.
Where did these high school kids came from? It’s past their bed time.
Yet the GOP has won 5 of the last 8 presidential elections. People are going to vote based on their pocketbooks, not some great news that happened 18 months before the election. The press can try to tilt things, but they always do that and, as often as not, they fail.
” Tonight, I’m going to toast the United States Navy for bringing the bastard down. “
Amen, brother!!
“I’m sorry you’re so cynical.”
Is it cynicism that’s explains why EVERY other interview from the crowds on NY1 right now is a Leftist who can’t sell their flag waving for two second before talking about the importance of multiculturalism and how “America was bad for brown people” ??
You are reading my mind! The Ground Zero event seems spontaneous and genuine. The demonstration in front of the White House appears contrived and has traits of a political rally.
And why the White House? It was a military operation by our finest, skilled real American Patriots. The _resident at 1600 Pennsylvania is an impediment to our brave men in the Armed Services.
No I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist and I see through the transparent stagecraft of the usurper and his evil handlers.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
Ayman al-Zawahri is now on the clock.
I’m so glad this happened but I wish it could have been done under Bush.
I think Obama was only interested in getting UBL because he could rub Bush’s nose in it.
America, F yeah!
FUBO! You used “I” in your speech more than you gave credit to our military.
DUh-bama was put between scylla and charybdis...his appeasment of mooslimb terrorism was laid at his feet. If he'd have made a choice of inaction, he would have suffered politically. Now his minions come out in his praise as if he'd not have been standing in the way of progress all along. In his eyes it was nothing more than a choice for political expedience.....In mine, GO NAVY!
They’re just as political as you are tonight. But they’re out waving the American flag and chanting USA! USA! for all the world to see.
President Bush wouldn't have tried to use this to his Political advantage, while we all know the worker bees in the White House are hard at work as we speak figuring out how to turn Obama into George Washington II.
With the Liberal Press we have in this Country, they will probably pull it off.
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