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Why should it suck to be Republican? Im proud today as I was yesterday. Should we be not proud because some fools wish to politicize absolutely everything, including the killing of a terrorist most of us wanted dead, no matter who was in office when it occurred?
I'm sure it wouldn't have been political if Osama had been killed while W was still in office.
Especially after the drugstore cowboy shot his mouth off about "dead or alive".
Up 11 points on the CBS/NY Times poll. But that is mainly from Republicans and Independents. And in probably 1-2 weeks, those Republicans will go back to not liking President Obama. And likely some independents will peel off too. Like history has shown, this will be a "bump" not a "plateau" or launching point to new approval heights for President Obama.
Up 11 points on the CBS/NY Times poll. But that is mainly from Republicans and Independents. And in probably 1-2 weeks, those Republicans will go back to not liking President Obama. And likely some independents will peel off too. Like history has shown, this will be a "bump" not a "plateau" or launching point to new approval heights for President Obama.
I don't know which poll but I heard it was 9 points, the exact same jump Bush got. It should last a few weeks to a month or so the experts are saying.
I think he would have gotten a modest increase but it was badly bungled politically before and after the fact. One, they could have made an effort to take him alive( or maybe not, Osama might have information many people wouldn't want revealed) and that would have been a media sensation. The only downside it would effectively eliminate the anti Gitmo crowd which wouldn't have helped Obama, just the opposite. But he still would have gotten benefit from it. You keep the story going and people stay interested. Now he's dead and after so many years of being off the radar, people just want to move on. That doesn't distract from other issues Obama has been getting hammered on: gas prices, the economy, inflation, illegal immigration, unemployment, foreclosures, etc.
Then they deliberately screw around to generate conspiracy theories to keep people bickering. They dump the body immediately, play games with the photos, and also just kill Osama outright. That leaves people wondering if we're still being jerked around by the government. Yeah it will distract us, but it will also make Obama seem part of the status quo more than ever.
So Obama gets compared to Bush yet again,using the same exact intelligence methods Bush used, the military Bush involved, the interrogation tactics Bush initiated. The two are almost indistinguishable. That please nobody. So don't expect much of a bounce or one for very long.
It can go to 99%, but when people come down off of the high of bin Laden being killed, they will realize that the economy still stinks, gas and food prices keep rising, unemployment still high, and anything else that matters and his rating will plummet again.
That has already happened! To top it off he is milking this for all he can, but that is already flying up his ass
we all well remember how lofty he has been with the families of 9/11
how he wanted to indict the CIA for "torture", bringing 5 men to trail for daring to punch a terroist, wanting to close Gitmo, wanting to try 9/11 master minds in NY
for giving a shout out to his buddies before telling us of the men and women had been butchered on their own base and then lectured us to not to jump to conclutions!
if anyone in their right mind thinks Obama gives 3 flips for anyone besides himself is batty as hell!!
he is trying to use the families as a photo shoot and that is it!
I find the right wingers more concerned with Obama taking credit in his speech for whathappened then the fact we killed a terrorist responsible for the deaths of thousands, rather sad...
Two can play that game
And who is the born-again terrorist exterminator in this conversation?
No one has forgotten Obama ran against everything that provided the information used to locate UBL. Nevermind the SEAL team 6 was called a death squad by liberals when "W" was president. So now what? Will we have Congressional hearings like Kucinich wanted when the actions of this "death squad" were only linked to Bush and Cheney?
For the record, two are not playing this game since Bush has declined Obama's invitation to attend his victory lap at ground zero. Seems the former president has more class than to use the victim's families as political props and their grief as an excuse to hold a campaign rally.
Yup, props to Bush for showing us what class is. Something obamy will never have.
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