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May. 2nd, 2011 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Meanwhile, some conservative bloggers are also very busy... criticizing the president's speech. Seems they think it was kind of uppity.
Personally, I'd appreciate it if reporters would stop saying that "It took ten years to find him." It did not take ten years. It took just over two years...dating back to the beginning of Obama's administration. Finding Bin Laden was never a priority for Bush. As early as March 2002, a mere six months after the September 11 attacks, Bush was already saying, "I truly am not that concerned about him." Indeed, I think he was not concerned about him at all. The invasion of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 was the prime military directive of Bush and his administration. Bin Laden was a potent and convenient boogeyman and I think they liked having him around to fill that role. Any suggestion by Bush that he was actually searching for Bin Laden was nothing but "Dead or Alive!" swinging-dick theatrics for the rubes, who gladly ate it up.
Of course now the national conversation will jump from Obama's "fake" birth certificate to Bin Laden's "fake" corpse. In fact, I expect Donald Trump to weigh in on this within the next couple of days. Then Trump, and others, will be invited on television to be interviewed by so-called journalists as if this is somehow a legitimate and serious topic for debate, while anyone with a brain sits there and facepalms in agony. Years from now, there will still be people in this country who will talk about the "conspiracy" surrounding Bin Laden's death, because they will never be able to accept that it was a Kenyan Muslim Marxist jiggaboo who took Bin Laden out, not their beloved "Mission Accomplished" flight-suit cowboy, "Mama Grizzly" Palin, or any one of a host of tough-talkin', gun-slingin' real Americans.
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Date: 2011-05-02 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-02 11:14 pm (UTC)Oh, think again. They're already gearing up with everything from "Why is Obama taking all the credit?" to "Meh, Bin Laden wasn't that important," to, of course, "Show us the body!"
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Date: 2011-05-02 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 02:26 am (UTC)Can you imagine being President Obama, on the eve of this mission, having to deal with that clown? Who knows, maybe he thought it was a great distraction. It's not necessarily a bad thing for our enemies to think we're idiots...as long as we're not actually idiots.
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Date: 2011-05-02 11:34 pm (UTC)Man, I have someone on my flist who is of that camp of "omg, Obama's speech was JUST AWFUL how could anyone have voted for him" and I am sitting on my hands because well, arguing against conservatives is a little like banging your head against a brick wall so I don't waste my precious energy these days.
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Date: 2011-05-03 02:23 am (UTC)Well, it DID lack the restrained, presidential solemnity of landing on an aircraft carrier in a borrowed flightsuit, swaggering around like a little kid with the best Halloween costume ever, and then giving a speech under a laughably premature "Mission Accomplished" banner.
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Date: 2011-05-03 01:31 am (UTC)My prediction is that they are going to quietly allow a day to celebrate, and then they are going to change the subject -- FAST. Probably back to the budget deficit/debt meme, which is the only thing that's they've gotten to stick.
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Date: 2011-05-03 01:59 am (UTC)Ha! That and the picture really made me laugh, and tonight I had to show my husband. We both laughed. Bitterly, but still a laugh. Thank you for that.
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Date: 2011-05-03 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-03 07:52 am (UTC)And there, you have just explained it - he's a Kenyan Muslim Marxist jiggaboo. Natch.
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Date: 2011-05-03 11:50 am (UTC)This. I love this. :D
Love the poster, too!
I've been waiting for America to nail this bastard for ten whole years! I certainly thought that the Bush administration had forgotten all about him. *rolls eyes*
This is what should have happened back in 2002: going after the RIGHT guy, not so much a regime that had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 (however vile Saddam was, and he was).
It's about time! Well done, President Obama, and your military intelligence and Navy Seal guys.
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Date: 2011-05-04 03:35 am (UTC)Still, he can try, and damage the Republican party even more. That would be fine :)