From The Dish by Andrew Sullivan -- May 2, 2011:
Mr Kurtz says what "happened Sunday will probably rank as Obama’s greatest achievement." Mickey demurs:
If a significant part of the Democratic health care plan survives, that will “probably” easily outrank yesterday’s bin Laden success. Obama will have done something a series of popular Democratic presidents had failed to accomplish in more than half a century. … And it’s easy to overestimate the significance of Osama’s demise: Remember when we thought finding Saddam would turn the tide in Iraq?
C'mon. Does Mickey think bin Laden is the same as Saddam in the American psyche? OBL attacked ths country; Saddam didn't. Osama began this hideously divisive bait of a war. Saddam just couldn't cop to not having any WMDs. (By the way, Mickey had similar prescience (ahem) after 9/11, when he predicted we would have moved on by Thanksgiving.)
In my view, the president who found and killed Osama bin Laden will be very hard not to re-elect. Now the association between his name and his enemy's will be an asset: Obama killed Osama. A few tea-party fanatics will have their heads explode. And the Big Lie that Obama is somehow not a strong president is debunked - because strength doesn't actually mean being inflammatory on Fox News, it means exercizing patience, quiet and resolve to get what you want. That Obama also helped prevent a Great Depression - with zero Republican votes - and brought universal health insurance to America? All we need now is a debt deal. And the only way that's possible before the election is if Obama looks highly likely to win it. That likelihood just increased today.
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I think your giving Obama way to much credit for killing Osama but anyway GREAT JOB OBAMA, CIA AND OUR MILITARY!
Brandon:
Bush took us off Osama's trail as early as 2002, and re-directed most of our efforts against Saddam and Iraq.
When Obama became president, he re-focused our military campaign and made one of his top priorities capturing or killing Bin Laden. It took Obama over two years, but he finally succeeded.
Before you'll know it the birthers, T-party fanatics, Trump and the GOP will ask for Bin Laden's death certificate. lol
GREAT JOB President Obama and all who worked together to take that monster out. Congrats!!
@CJP:
Re your reply .... SPOT ON!!
Thank you, Anon. It's called The Truth.
Showing the Truth to a "Birther" is like holding up a Cross in front of a Vampire.
Unfortunately, the Birthers don't shrivel and melt like the Vampires do.
CJP
You have no clue what the CIA and other were doing while Bush was president and you still have no clue now that Obama is president.
In the same way Obama wasn't at fault for the BP oil spill, Obama doesn't get credit for Osamas death. (Other than giving to green light on the op.)
CJP
You nothing of about the truth, read some of the b.s. you post on a daily basis.
"CJP
You have no clue what the CIA and other were doing while Bush was president and you still have no clue now that Obama is president."
I'm sure that the CIA will inform Brandon on a moment to moment basis of their activities because he's letting on that he knows more than CJP. LOL What an imagination, just like a 3 year old. Additionally he's nothing more than a paid T-troll otherwise he wouldn't be here posting such hallucinations.
Anon
Are you retarded? CJP is the one making claims as if he knew what goes on behind closed door, not me. So get a clue! I your lack of understanding only goes to explain all of your past half brain comments.
I think your giving Obama way to much credit for killing Osama but anyway GREAT JOB OBAMA, CIA AND OUR MILITARY!
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