[presidio9]

THIS. Notice that there aren't too many people talking about Birth Certificates, college transcripts or $5 gas anymore.

For the next couple of weeks or so. I agree with some others on this thread that we've known about this compound for quite some time. I'm sure the president would have liked to put this attack off for the next 17 months or so, but something changed to force his hand at this particular moment. Otherwise, I just can't see him releasing the birth certificate the same week as this mission.

[subterfuge]

I believe our intelligence community knew about the compound for far longer than they let on, naturally. Maybe even years. I’d like to assume they were monitoring the communications and gathering even more info, but with obama in charge, who can say?

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

“THIS. Notice that there aren’t too many people talking about Birth Certificates, college transcripts or $5 gas anymore.

For the next couple of weeks or so. I agree with some others on this thread that we’ve known about this compound for quite some time. I’m sure the president would have liked to put this attack off for the next 17 months or so, but something changed to force his hand at this particular moment. Otherwise, I just can’t see him releasing the birth certificate the same week as this mission. “

AMEN TO THAT!

There’s got to be something freaking zero out that’s even worse than his poll numbers, something new we haven’t winded yet.

I forced myself to actually Watch his 9 minute spiel, and I don’t remember even a Hint of a smile from him. The man didn’t look one bit happy at having wasted such a valuable piece of political capital.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“I agree with some others on this thread that we’ve known about this compound for quite some time. I’m sure the president would have liked to put this attack off for the next 17 months or so, but something changed to force his hand at this particular moment. Otherwise, I just can’t see him releasing the birth certificate the same week as this mission.”

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I don’t know when we knew *for certain* that Osama was holed up in that compound, or how long it would take to prepare an attack that would guarantee that Osama doesn’t get away while minimizing collateral damage. Given that it appeared that Osama wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, it was the right move to wait a few weeks to make sure the operation could be carried out flawlessly.

I don’t think that Obama timed the operation based on political events. I think that the opposite is true: Obama released the birth certificate last week so that the issue would not be a distraction when Osama got taken out. Could you imagine had Obama not released the long-form birth certificate last week and they would have announced that the president would be speaking to the nation at 10:30 p.m. on a Sunday evening? There would have been two or three hours of speculation about Obama announcing that he was born in Kenya (or Canada), or that he was resigning, or that his real father was Malcolm X, you name it. And when he announced that we had killed Osama, it would be almost anti-climactic, and you’d have half the population ignoring what the President was saying because he didn’t have the decency of taking five minutes of his time to request a birth certificate. So Obama was smart to release the birth certificate last week; if he was smarter, he would have released it 3 years ago.