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Obama Trumpets Killing of Bin Laden, and Critics Pounce
By PETER BAKER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
WASHINGTON — Presidents running for re-election typically boast of programs they created, people they helped or laws they signed. They talk about rising test scores or falling deficits or expanding job rolls. President Obama is increasingly taking the unusual route of bragging about how he killed a man.
To be sure, that man was Osama bin Laden, and he is not mourned among either the president’s supporters or detractors. But in the days leading up to the first anniversary of the raid that finally caught up to the Qaeda mastermind, Mr. Obama has made a concerted, if to some indecorous, effort to trumpet the killing as perhaps the central accomplishment of his presidency.
Mr. Obama has used the rarefied setting of the Situation Room to give an interview about how he made the decision to send in Special Operations forces. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave a speech saying the re-election slogan would be “Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” The president’s campaign released a Web video showing former President Bill Clinton praising Mr. Obama’s fortitude, as it questioned whether Mitt Romney would have made the same decision.
Other presidents have boasted of their toughness, of course, notably Mr. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, who campaigned for re-election in 2004 on a record of having deposed Saddam Hussein in Iraq, while his vice president, Dick Cheney, warned that electing John Kerry could lead to a terrorist attack. But few presidents have talked about the killing of an individual enemy in such an expansive way.
No doubt, the raid on a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a year ago Tuesday is a more favorable story for the president politically than the latest report showing slowing economic growth. With the general election effectively under way, it is part of an effort by both sides to define Mr. Obama’s presidency.
Senator John McCain of Arizona, Mr. Obama’s Republican opponent four years ago, lashed out at the Web video, saying the president was turning “the one decision he got right into a pathetic, political act of self-congratulation.” He added, “Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad.”
Heading into a weekend in which Mr. Obama will appear with the comedian Jimmy Kimmel before a star-studded crowd at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Mr. Romney and his allies once again tried to turn Mr. Obama’s own celebrity against him.
A Web video released this week by American Crossroads, a Republican “super PAC,” made the case that the president’s focus on image had preoccupied him from more important issues, mocking his mingling with the stars, including his “slow-jamming the news” with Jimmy Fallon on “Late Night” this week.
“Four years ago, America elected the biggest celebrity in the world, and Americans got one cool president,” the video says amid grim images and statistics on out-of-work recent college graduates. “But after four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?”
The Romney team amplified the message on Friday in a memorandum from the campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, arguing that Mr. Obama was counting on “his winning TV persona” for re-election. “This election will be decided by adults casting their ballots in their precincts, not teenagers texting votes from in front of their television sets,” Mr. Rhoades wrote. “That apparently frightens the president and his advisers.”
The contrast between the two campaign videos could not be starker. Set to ominous music and narrated by Mr. Clinton, the Bin Laden video describes the life-or-death stakes that confronted Mr. Obama and shows him standing silhouetted in front of an Oval Office window, shouldering the burdens of a nation.
The ad then presents Mr. Romney as if he were the one not ready to lead, saying, “Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?”
Claiming public credit for national security victories has long been a balancing act for presidents. Mr. Bush was criticized when a Republican ad showed pictures of ground zero.
Mr. Obama has been finding ways of talking about the Bin Laden raid for months. When a reporter asked in December about charges that he was appeasing the nation’s enemies, Mr. Obama offered a strikingly blunt retort. “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top Al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement,” he said. “Or whoever’s left out there about that.”
He then cited his leadership in the Bin Laden raid both in the opening passages of his State of the Union address in January and again in the closing sections, always making sure to credit the military and intelligence agencies. But the focus has intensified with the approach of the anniversary. On Thursday, he gave an interview to Brian Williams of NBC News in the Situation Room.
Tony Fratto, a deputy press secretary under Mr. Bush, said that it was “unseemly” to use the room for such a purpose. “I don’t believe it ever would have occurred to us to conduct an interview in the Situation Room,” he said, “and don’t believe we would have considered it appropriate.”
Joshua Earnest, Mr. Obama’s deputy press secretary, said the White House was responding to news media requests. “There certainly is interest around the one-year anniversary, so I’d be surprised if nobody asked about it in the context of the one-year anniversary,” he said.
Martha Joynt Kumar, a Towson University specialist in presidential communication, said it was not surprising that Mr. Obama would use the Situation Room to argue his case. “When they are running for re-election, presidents favor discussions of their successes,” she said. “The killing of Bin Laden is a natural item for President Obama to highlight.”
The anniversary has rekindled some of the longstanding debates about the methods that Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama have used to combat terrorism. Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., a former top Central Intelligence Agency official, defended the harsh interrogations of prisoners under Mr. Bush by contrasting them with Mr. Obama’s use of drones to kill suspected terrorists.
“How could it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them?” he asked in a segment taped for Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” on CBS.
An official familiar with a still-incomplete investigation by the Democratic staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee said the evidence did not support Mr. Rodriguez’s assertion that the rough methods, widely condemned as torture, were necessary.
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if bin laden was still alive today, all we'd hear from romney is "i know how to catch OBL, Obama isn't willing to do what it takes, etc.
So a LITTLE reminder of "I got the SOB" ain't that bad. Too much and it becomes rudy's 911, and he's mocked for it.
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::). Fng please 180. According to you bin laden was not even behind 911 so why are you again sucking obamas stick?
Bro - you don't even remotely see how far you have fallen.
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::). Fng please 180. According to you bin laden was not even behind 911 so why are you again sucking obamas stick?
Bro - you don't even remotely see how far you have fallen.
bin laden was behing the USS Cole attack. For that he deserved what he got.
As for 911, the FBI never chose to list that as one of his charges, even though they listed all sorts of other attacks to his credit, and they listed many other ppl wanted for 911.
I'm sure as someone who has spent zero minutes on the topic, who subscribes to everything alex jones says EXCEPT 911, you're a totally awesome authority on this matter.
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:). Ghettobama is just pimping this again as it is clear we are going into recession again.
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:). Ghettobama is just pimping this again as it is clear we are going into recession again.
your messiah romney thinks we are in a recovery.
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your messiah romney thinks we are in a recovery.
Lie.
He's said many times recently that the economy is not improving. Your clinging to one remark be made long ago when all the numbers showed things were getting better, and have simply chose to ignore everything he has said since.
Sad 240. Sometimes I think you actually believe.your own lies, cause you seem to ignore anything that contradicts you.
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Lie.
He's said many times recently that the economy is not improving. Your clinging to one remark be made long ago when all the numbers showed things were getting better, and have simply chose to ignore everything he has said since.
Sad 240. Sometimes I think you actually believe.your own lies, cause you seem to ignore anything that contradicts you.
Well, yesterday, once again, he said we ARE in a recovery. It's not as strong as he'd like - but yeah, we're in a recovery.
His bullshit optimism in the light of crappy new numbers...
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Mitt Romney said Friday the nation's economy is recovering but blamed President Barack Obama for presiding over the "most anemic and tepid" comeback since the Great Depression.
It was a familiar theme for Romney, who faced the public for the first time since declaring himself the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting earlier in the week. The former Massachusetts governor ignored news released by the Commerce Department earlier in the day that the nation's recovery may be slowing.
"The president is going to want to take credit for the economy getting better, and I am convinced it will get better. Every recession ends. Every recession ultimately becomes a recovery," he told students and supporters gathered at Otterbein University in central Ohio.
Romney added: "This just happens to be the most anemic and tepid recovery we've seen since Hoover." President Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929 and, as the nation struggled amid an economic depression, lost re-election to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
The Commerce Department estimated that the economy grew at 2.2 percent over the first three months of the year. That's compared to 3 percent growth in the previous three months.
Romney offered a more measured tone than he had in the final weeks of the competitive phase of the GOP primary season. He did not mention Obama by name in a speech that spanned more than 40 minutes, although he condemned the president's policies that target the wealthy.
"I will try and unite the American people, not divide us," he said.
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Shameful.
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"Sad" and "shameless" sound just about right.
Obama to Open Situation Room to Tout bin Laden Attack
Saturday, 28 Apr 2012
By Dave Eberhart
In a first for network television, NBC News has been granted unprecedented access to the most secret and secure part of the White House, the Situation Room. In a “Rock Center with Brian Williams” exclusive airing on Wednesday, May 2 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, President Barack Obama and his national security and military teams, relive the pivotal moments of the raid targeting Osama bin Laden.
The iconic photograph taken inside the Situation Room offered the world the first glimpse of a national security team at work during the Special Operations mission. Now, we will hear from many of the people in that photograph about what was taking place on that historic night, highlights an NBC press release.
“We want to present the definitive account of what took place leading up to and during the tension-filled hours of the mission targeting Osama bin Laden. The Navy SEALs Special Operations teams executed an ambitious, dangerous mission months in planning. Our viewers will hear details never before revealed and see the nerve center of the White House Situation Room in this special broadcast,” said Steve Capus, president of NBC News.
On “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” Williams interviews Obama in the Situation Room about one of the country’s greatest military missions, which until now, has been shrouded in secrecy.
Williams also interviews Vice President Joe Biden; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011; Tom Donilon, national security advisor; Denis McDonough, deputy national security dvisor; and John O. Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.
As Obama opens the secretive White House Situation Room as an interview stage to hail the one-year anniversary, the broader goal for the president is not to just to remind voters of an enormous victory on his watch, it is to maximize a political narrative that he has the courage to make tough calls that his opponent might not.
"Does anybody doubt that had the mission failed, it would have written the beginning of the end of the president's first term?" Vice President Joe Biden says in laying out Obama's foreign policy campaign message. "We know what President Obama did. We can't say for certain what Governor Romney would have done."
The strategy underscores the fact that the Obama who ordered the raid as commander in chief is now seeking a second term as president. The risk is the political blow-back that can come if he is seen as crossing a line into politicizing national security.
"Sad," said a Romney spokeswoman. "Shameless," said 2008 Obama election foe John McCain.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/White-House-situation-room/2012/04/28/id/437388
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The alternative. ::)
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:). This is just absurd. Obama is really opathetic.
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:). This is just absurd. Obama is really opathetic.
Just think. He never would have been elected of Bush/Cheney had not failed so miserably. :-[
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if bin laden was still alive today, all we'd hear from romney is "i know how to catch OBL, Obama isn't willing to do what it takes, etc.
So a LITTLE reminder of "I got the SOB" ain't that bad. Too much and it becomes rudy's 911, and he's mocked for it.
Yeah, that's the topic Romney would've keyed on. There isn't a rolleyes smiley big enough for that absurd comment. "All we'd hear"..... ::) ::)
It's not even a hot button topic. This was the first shot the current admin's taken against Romney, and it's a miserable one.
I saw Paul Begala on Maher for a little on Maher last night, and he sounded like a fucking child: "Obama was too busy killing Bin Laden and saving GM".......
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:). That is all they have. Sound bites and bumper stickers that get more absurd by the day.
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The problem is not that he "trumpets" killing OBL. He can do that.
The problem is stating that Romney wouldn't have issued the order to kill him. That shows a total disconnect with reality. How does anyone know that Romney wouldn't have done the same thing?
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Let Obama trumpet it. BIG DEAL!
Remember that about three months after Bin Laden got shot, Obama's approval ratings were in the 30s.
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What I find ironic is that they try and potray the republicans as war-mongers and that all Romney wants to do is go to war with Iran, and that they have no respect for foreign nations, but then turn around and say that these same war-mongers would care to much about Pakistan to use the military and take out Osama bin Laden.
Brutal logic.
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Let Obama trumpet it. BIG DEAL!
Remember that about three months after Bin Laden got shot, Obama's approval ratings were in the 30s.
link?
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The problem is not that he "trumpets" killing OBL. He can do that.
The problem is stating that Romney wouldn't have issued the order to kill him. That shows a total disconnect with reality. How does anyone know that Romney wouldn't have done the same thing?
He would be pretty dumb if he didnt thats for sure
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romeny criticized obama for saying he would go INTO PAKISTAN to get bin laden. 2007.
so to believe romney would have issued the GO order on the mission, we'd have to believe mitt would flip flop on something.
That's not something I'm ready to accept.
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link?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/08/obama-approval-rating-hits-all-time-low-in-gallup-poll/
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2011/08/24/obamas-approval-rating-points-to-his-being-a-one-termer
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Let Obama trumpet it. BIG DEAL!
Remember that about three months after Bin Laden got shot, Obama's approval ratings were in the 30s.
they we at 39% for three days.
he's at 48% today.
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they we at 39% for three days.
he's at 48% today.
As if that's good for an incumbent president. Three months after you capped the most notorious terrorist on the planet, your approval rating is in the THIRTIES?
A year ago, the libs were crowing that the election was a lock with Bin Laden's death. And that the GOP had the "worst field in the history of the Republican party".
Now, the survivor of that field is DEAD EVEN with Mr. Hope-and-Change, one year after Osama got GOT.
And, as the saying goes in football (when it comes to a wide receiver vs. a cornerback) If he's even; he's LEAVIN'!! For the last few decades or so of elections, involving an incumbent, nearly all the undecideds go against the incumbent.
Dick Morris pointed that out, particularly with the last 8 elections. Except for "W", the incumbent (even if he won re-election) lost ALL of the undecided voters.
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As if that's good for an incumbent president. Three months after you capped the most notorious terrorist on the planet, your approval rating is in the THIRTIES?
the economy was bottomed out, gas prices were insanely high. that was what, august 2011?
World gamblers at intrade.com have romney at a 37.1% chance of winning.
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the economy was bottomed out, gas prices were insanely high. that was what, august 2011?
World gamblers at intrade.com have romney at a 37.1% chance of winning.
What do you mean "was bottommed out" or "were insanely high"? The economy and gas prices are STILL jacked up.
That, along with ObamaCare (whether it gets overturned or not, which I hope it will) spells BIG TROUBLE for Obama.
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What do you mean "was bottommed out" or "were insanely high"? The economy and gas prices are STILL jacked up.
That, along with ObamaCare (whether it gets overturned or not, which I hope it will) spells BIG TROUBLE for Obama.
Just remember 180 NEVER saw the mid terms coming.
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Just remember 180 NEVER saw the mid terms coming.
I want another woodshed whipping for the Democrats, ala 2010. If for no other reason, it shoots down their usual, cued-up "We wuz robbed" routine that they yelp whenever they get beat in close elections.
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I want another woodshed whipping for the Democrats, ala 2010. If for no other reason, it shoots down their usual, cued-up "We wuz robbed" routine that they yelp whenever they get beat in close elections.
All mittens has to do is get 3 percent better overall than mclame and he wins.
180 and the Obama drones are still stuck in 2008.
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Just remember 180 NEVER saw the mid terms coming.
Brown 41 lol
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Brown 41 lol
Yeah, and look at what. Occurred as a result you lying douche. You are little more than an Obama troll and drone. The mid terms were a direct result of Obama refusal to moderate after the Christie and brown victories and you leftist drones just marched on like nothing.
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Yeah, and look at what. Occurred as a result you lying douche. You are little more than an Obama troll and drone. The mid terms were a direct result of Obama refusal to moderate after the Christie and brown victories and you leftist drones just marched on like nothing.
Speaking of lying douches, that would be all those DEMOCRATS who swore they wouldn't vote for ObamaCare in the House, because of the lack of a public option, abortion funding, etc.
They lied their butts off and got the brakes beaten off them in 2010, as a result.
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Speaking of lying douches, that would be all those DEMOCRATS who swore they wouldn't vote for ObamaCare in the House, because of the lack of a public option, abortion funding, etc.
They lied their butts off and got the brakes beaten off them in 2010, as a result.
Same is going to happen in 2012 and drones like 180 blackass straw et al will never ever know what hit them.
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Yeah, and look at what. Occurred as a result you lying douche. You are little more than an Obama troll and drone. The mid terms were a direct result of Obama refusal to moderate after the Christie and brown victories and you leftist drones just marched on like nothing.
Paladino! Angle! Christine ODonnell I am not a witch!
it's cool, we all get predicitons wrong. Most people just don't go around saying "haha, you got a prediction wrong 22 months ago, haha, pwned, haha". They gloat at the time and move on. Most people.
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Paladino! Angle! Christine ODonnell I am not a witch!
it's cool, we all get predicitons wrong. Most people just don't go around saying "haha, you got a prediction wrong 22 months ago, haha, pwned, haha". They gloat at the time and move on. Most people.
Yeah, a few losses next to the latest GOP victory in over 50 years.
180 like I said - I am ashamed of myself for once considering you an honest broker.
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really, i'm ashamed anyone takes what i post seriously. if this was an obama kneepadding forum, i'd be poking the obamabots with a stick too.
and trayvon? lol i call it a legal shoot and ppl don't care.
and obama? I call him an illegal kenyan and it doesn't even register with people.
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really, i'm ashamed anyone takes what i post seriously. if this was an obama kneepadding forum, i'd be poking the obamabots with a stick too.
and trayvon? lol i call it a legal shoot and ppl don't care.
and obama? I call him an illegal kenyan and it doesn't even register with people.
he BC issue is good for fun.
hey listen - no bullshit - being dead fucking serious. I was touring a submarine in Baltimore this weekend and we were walking in TJE innards etc and there were a few salty dogs in there. we got to the enlisted mess area and one guy remarked about a picture from an old crew w a black dude that it looked like Obama , and I heard one dude say "wtf are you talking about Obama is from Indonesia. then another chiped in "he is from Kenya". my GF looked at me and said "what are they talking about?". I told her "Obama is from Moscow - let's go to the Forward torpedo room".
no shit. Had a smile on my face in the conning tower like you can't believe.
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Arianna Huffington: President's bin Laden ad "despicable"
CBSNews ^ | 4/30/2012
Posted on Monday, April 30, 2012 10:13:03 AM by South40
(CBS News) Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of the The Huffington Post, called the Obama campaign's decision to tout the assassination of Osama bin Laden in a campaign advertisement "despicable." The ad questions whether presidential candidate Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
"I don't think there should be an ad about that," Huffington said Monday on "CBS This Morning." "I think it's one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job (with television specials). All that is perfectly legitimate. But to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do."
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Huffington: Only credible when 33 agrees with her.
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Huffington: Only credible when 33 agrees with her.
I think obama is acting very unseemly. Why didnt he celebrate on the anniversay of obamacare like this? Like we need to b reminded of his supreme greatness and divinity every waking second?
He is an ego maniac and a piece of trash. I look at him now like I do the thugs who peddle candy bars in the subway, clean windshields w dirty rags in the Bronx, etc.
He wants to be glorified and worshiped for anything that goes right, and blame EVERYONE else for everything he promised to fix that only got worse.
He is an embarassment for sure, but his slavish drones and cult followers like yourself are far worse.
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i agree obama is going too far to get glory here.
but yeah, if bin laden was still free, we all KNOW romney would be lecturing him on how a frensh-speaking 2-hardvard degree stud like him can get bin laden and barry can't.
so while the prez goes overboard and he loses big on this issue, he does get a little praise for it. better to let others do the talking for him - this pride thing costs many a powerful person their power. martha stewart, clemens.... ppl that just believe the hype about themselves.
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He would be pretty dumb if he didnt thats for sure
It would have been smart not to do it since during his campaign against Hillary in 2008, his campaign manager chastised Hillary for using the war to score points. Flip. Flop.
Not only that. But, as Shockwave stated in this thread, Dems have painted the Republicans as being war-mongers. Why would any Republican, including Mitt, be afraid of making the same decision?
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It would have been smart not to do it since during his campaign against Hillary in 2008, his campaign manager chastised Hillary for using the war to score points. Flip. Flop.
Not only that. But, as Shockwave stated in this thread, Dems have painted the Republicans as being war-mongers. Why would any Republican, including Mitt, be afraid of making the same decision?
There was practially a neon sign, pointing to Bin Laden's location. Had Obama let that slip away, he would have been skewered.
Besides, as I said earlier, how do you kill Bin Laden yet end up in the 30s in approval rating just three months later?
Bush had a higher approval rating for months after Hussein got caught.
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There was practially a neon sign, pointing to Bin Laden's location. Had Obama let that slip away, he would have been skewered.
Besides, as I said earlier, how do you kill Bin Laden yet end up in the 30s in approval rating just three months later?
Bush had a higher approval rating for months after Hussein got caught.
youre playing the 240 game :)
He was briefly at 39% at a point last summer when gas prices were brutal and eveyrone was upset about the debt crisis and lack of consumer confidence. I believe he took that AA rating hit last summer as well after that brinksmanship
so yeah, "he's in the 30s after the bin laden thing" really means "after the debt crisis, he dropped to 39 briefly and it was only temporary, as he's at 48 on gallup today".
But i admire your style ;)
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youre playing the 240 game :)
He was briefly at 39% at a point last summer when gas prices were brutal and eveyrone was upset about the debt crisis and lack of consumer confidence. I believe he took that AA rating hit last summer as well after that brinksmanship
so yeah, "he's in the 30s after the bin laden thing" really means "after the debt crisis, he dropped to 39 briefly and it was only temporary, as he's at 48 on gallup today".
But i admire your style ;)
Was he or was he not in the 30s? You're welcome to make all the excuses you want to but he was in the 30s and the Bin Laden killing did not give him any bounce whatsoever.
I like that he appears to be planning on running his entire campaign on something that Americans stopped caring about 10 months ago. Good luck with that, haha.
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Was he or was he not in the 30s? You're welcome to make all the excuses you want to but he was in the 30s and the Bin Laden killing did not give him any bounce whatsoever.
I like that he appears to be planning on running his entire campaign on something that Americans stopped caring about 10 months ago. Good luck with that, haha.
Yep - he was in the 30s. And Romney has repeatedly admitted to the FACT that the economy has improved under Obama policy. His promise to deliver better results by enacting somethign radically different from what Obama is doing (which mittens admits already works) has baffled some.
See how it's a dick move to use the barely true info to make a d-bag statement? I do it all the time, so I admired when someone else did it :)
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Yep - he was in the 30s. And Romney has repeatedly admitted to the FACT that the economy has improved under Obama policy. His promise to deliver better results by enacting somethign radically different from what Obama is doing (which mittens admits already works) has baffled some.
See how it's a dick move to use the barely true info to make a d-bag statement? I do it all the time, so I admired when someone else did it :)
You're back on that Romney "quote", eh? I'm pretty sure you were proven wrong about that claim of yours and even admitted so, making it pretty laughable that you're now circling back around to it.
And it's no surprise that you do it all the time as you're a volunteer for the Obama campaign and doing everything in your power to get him re-elected. :-\
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but yeah, if bin laden was still free, we all KNOW romney would be lecturing him on how a frensh-speaking 2-hardvard degree stud like him can get bin laden and barry can't.
You keep saying this but it's not the truth. It wasn't a topic on everyone's mind at the time it happened, and it wouldn't be in November either.
As for the supposed Romney gaffe, the only place I've seen it mentioned since that day is here, by you. It's not going to make a difference at all.
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You're back on that Romney "quote", eh? I'm pretty sure you were proven wrong about that claim of yours and even admitted so, making it pretty laughable that you're now circling back around to it.
Romney's quote:
"Of course it’s getting better. The economy always gets better after the recession. There’s always a recovery. There’s never been a time anywhere in the world where an economy has never recovered. " Then he went on to say he could have done it better than obama.
This surprised Ingraham.
When Laura asked Romney if that’s a hard argument to make — that “Obama is making the economy better, but vote for me,” Romney replied: “Do you have a better one Laura?”
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You keep saying this but it's not the truth. It wasn't a topic on everyone's mind at the time it happened, and it wouldn't be in November either.
lol.. until he caught that 3rd eye from out awesome ass navy seals, the OBL issue came up all the damn time. Repubs were all about shitting on obama for it in 2008.
They have that foreign policy debate at every election - and we KNOW mittens wouldn't have gone 90 minutes without reminding us that 1200 days of obama rule and bin laden was still sipping tropical drinks and breathing our air.
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lol.. until he caught that 3rd eye from out awesome ass navy seals, the OBL issue came up all the damn time. Repubs were all about shitting on obama for it in 2008.
They have that foreign policy debate at every election - and we KNOW mittens wouldn't have gone 90 minutes without reminding us that 1200 days of obama rule and bin laden was still sipping tropical drinks and breathing our air.
Yeah, it would be smart for Romney to bring up 1200 days of Obama rule right after the 2400 of Rebuplican rule that failed to get him either.
It would be completely stupid, and would make it look as if Romney was reaching or deflecting away from other topics - exactly how it makes Obama look.
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Obama says decision to mark bin Laden anniversary 'entirely appropriate'
NewsCore ^ | April 30, 2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Monday that his administration's decision to mark the one-year anniversary of Usama bin Laden's death has been "entirely appropriate."
"I hardly think that you've seen any excessive celebration taking place here," he told reporters at a White House news conference alongside Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
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LOL - What a lying sack of garbage.
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Double Down: Obama Again Suggests Romney Would Have Blocked Bin Laden Raid
Townhall,com ^ | April 30, 2012 | Guy Benson
Posted on Monday, April 30, 2012 5:13:42 PM by Kaslin
The Obama brain trust evidently believes it's got a winning message here, so brace yourselves for six more months of smug, smirking implications that Mitt Romney would have nixed last May's military and intelligence triumph:
Obama: "Hardly Think You Have Seen Any Excessive Celebration Taking Place"
"I'd just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and to take out bin Laden," Obama said, obviously taking a shot at Romney. "I assume that people meant what they said when they said it. And that's been at least my practice. I said that I would go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him--and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they would do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it."
Our president looks mighty pleased with himself here, doesn't he? Perhaps Romney can "go ahead and explain" the alleged contradiction by citing his own stance on this, which in no way suggests that he would have taken a pass on the Abbottabad operation. As we wrote last week, the full context of Romney's remarks painted a remarkably different picture than the misleading snippet employed in the nasty and small ad put out by the Obama campaign. Beyond that compelling contextual evidence, here's Romney addressing this very Bin-Laden-in-Pakistan hypothetical back in 2007 (skip ahead to 5:25):
2007 Iowa ABC Republican Debate (Part 6)
It’s wrong for a person running for president of the United States to get on TV and say we’re going to go into your country unilaterally. Of course America always maintains our option to do whatever we think is in the best interest of America. But we don’t go out and say “ladies and gentleman of Germany, if ever there was a problem in your country [and] we didn’t think you were doing the right thing, we reserve the right to come in and get them out.” We don’t say those things, we keep our options quiet.
Translation: Obviously the United States of America can and will act in our national security interests, but we shouldn't needlessly inflame partner nations by loudly announcing what we might do in response to a set of possible future circumstances. He was essentially paraphrasing Teddy Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick" maxim that Joe Biden, um, awkwardly invoked last week. As Hot Air's Morgen Richmond notes, it may be a bit to painful to listen to Romney discuss Pakistan as a friendly ally in light of their scandalous harboring of bin Laden...but that is the delicate geopolitical tightrope American leadership has been walking for years. Click through to read contemporary quotes from Biden and Hillary Clinton eludicating this point. The Obama campaign is well within its rights to emphasize an undeniable highlight of this president's otherwise gloomy three-and-a-half year term in office. Wednesday's anniversary of the mission provides an obvious opening to do so. Fine. Hell, they could even try to argue that candidate Obama was uniquely prescient and clear-eyed about Pakistan's role in the world during the '08 campaign. But they shed any veneer of decency and good will when they explicitly speculate that Mitt Romney would have quashed the plan that Obama approved. There is no basis for that claim; it's appalling -- especially from a crew that furiously condemned bin Laden-related point scoring when they were the perceived target. Parting thought: Guess who said this?
“I think it’s one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job (with television specials). All that is perfectly legitimate. But to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do.”
Surprise!
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yeah, mittens meeting with rudy on the anniv of bin laden death.... in NYC...
hahahaha shaky as fck.
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Obama: Marking bin Laden death isn't 'celebration
Yahoo ^ | 4/30/12 | ANNE GEARAN and STEVE PEOPLES | Associated Press
Posted on April 30, 2012 7:05:08 PM EDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday that it is appropriate to mark an anniversary that Republicans charge is being turned into a campaign bumper sticker.
He then jumped at the chance to portray presumed Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney as unprepared to make the kind of hard call required to send U.S. forces on that highly risky mission. Without mentioning Romney by name, Obama recommended looking at people's previous statements on the manhunt for the 9/11 mastermind.
Obama's re-election team has seized on a quote from Romney in 2007, when he said it was not worth moving heaven and earth to go after one person. On Monday, Romney said he "of course" would have ordered bin Laden killed, but his campaign criticized Obama for turning the successful death raid to political gain.
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