Obama’s going to make an announcement about Osama bin Laden.
I’m watching MSNBC and all I can say is, David Gregory is a very dumb sounding person. I may have to turn this off. Tell me what happened in the comments.
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Obama’s going to make an announcement about Osama bin Laden.
I’m watching MSNBC and all I can say is, David Gregory is a very dumb sounding person. I may have to turn this off. Tell me what happened in the comments.
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lamh34
CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NYT….reporting Osama Bin Laden has been killed and they have the body!
Shit!!!
Martin
Fucking competence, how does it work?!
Bob
NYT reports OBL dead.
Bob Loblaw
“We will find out who else is dead.”
-Wolf Blitzer
Oh, Wolf. You make me laugh.
hells littlest angel
Have any right-wingers complained yet about why it took Obama so long?
RinaX
Wow. For reals?
Nikita
Wow…oh wow.
Poopyman
OK, so they’re all saying Obama will definitely announce we snuffed OBL, so what’s the point of him even going on camera?
Mary G
Now can we get out of Afghanistan already?
batgirl
Can we leave Afghanistan & Iraq (& Libya) now?
alwhite
See, had l’il boots still bin CinC this would have happened next fall when it would have been so much more useful.
It changes nothing. Al Quiada will go on without him.
BOSS BITCH
I KNEW IT! I KNEW it was coming.
Southern Beale
As I said elsewhere, what’s the guess on how many Fox News commenters “accidentally” refer to Osama as Obama?
Loneoak
@Poopyman:
To gloat.
And may I add: good riddance. What a nasty fucker that man was.
lamh34
from twitter:
RT @benpolitico: Afghan official tells @ajenglish Osama’s killing “happened some time ago but took time to confirm”
Jay in Oregon
Cue the hand-wringing from the Village about Obama using this for “political benefit” in 3, 2, 1…
…nah, that’s too easy. Anyone want to start a quick and dirty pool as to which Villager will be the first to wring his hands?
gordon schumway
What’s up with the lighting on David Gregory?
Omnes Omnibus
Gregory says US forces have the body.
Mandramas
Hmmm. Just in time for 9-11-11.
SteveinSC
Take his body to the Sears Tower in Chicago and throw the fucker off.
Southern Beale
@Poopyman:
So he can have his moment. Damn, you don’t let the Twitterverse do that for your.
kdaug
Good. Wars are over now? Everyone comes home from Af/Pac and Iraq? First planes out tomorrow?
Heh.
JCT
@Jay in Oregon: Oh right — if this had happened during the Bush years they would have broadcast Bush and Cheney dancing around with his body parts.
Fred
The US just killed him and they have the body.
Loneoak
How long until Trump takes credit for this?
Nemo_N
Don’t worry guys; dumb, open-ended wars will continue as usual.
Also too, this was all thanks to George W. Bush.
Why? Because.
Southern Beale
Can’t wait for John Bolton and Liz Cheney to come out and tell us all why this was a horrible thing for America.
Served
@gordon schumway: “it was a dark and stormy night…”
JGabriel
Did they get Al Zawahiri too? I hope so. Guess we’ll find out in a few minutes.
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Douglas
http://www.whitehouse.gov/live
Just put open it in a tab, when the press conference starts it should begin to play.
That way, you get all the official info, without any of the “analysis”.
alwhite
I wonder how the wingnut Wurlitzer will spin this as a screw up on the Presidents part.
Also too:
David Gregory is a very dumb
soundingpersonTIFI
M. Bouffant
You can always watch Wolf Blitzer if David Gregory (& now Chuck Fucking Todd) is too stupid for you.
Elia Isquire
@Bob Loblaw: LOL
Wolf is amazing.
Obviously Bush had this done b/c OBL was about to confess to being a mere agent to the Illuminati High Lizard Council.
Fred
@batgirl: No! Next idiotic question?
Nate
Turning off the snark switch. This is pretty sweet news.
RinaX
I’m petty, so fuck you John McCain.
Chance
**delurks**
This is huge news. This bastard was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans. I know this will make me sound like a horrible person, but I’m glad that he is dead and I will celebrate his death.
This one action resolves on of the greatest failures of the Bush Administration.
Loneoak
@SteveinSC:
We might be able to close the federal deficit if we sold turns to kick the corpse.
kdaug
Interesting thing is, they made the strike, retrived the corpse, did the forensic testing to confirm the identity, informed the POTUS, and then announced it to the press.
I.E., Obama knew all of this when he was slamming Foxhat last night.
Hee.
Bob Loblaw
I love how the word “momentarily” has absolutely no meaning in Washington.
AliceBlue
I’m sure Fox News will declare this a great victory for W’s presidency.
Jay in Oregon
@JCT:
Well, of course; IOKIYAR and all that.
We would have had Fox News and the wingnuts sniffing Bush 43’s jockstrap for weeks.
JCT
@JGabriel: That would be spectacular, but I am sure the two of them have not been in the same place together for a long time.
Served
Osama bin Laden’s fatal mistake? Going to a wedding party in Af-Pak, apparently. (Too dark?)
Southern Beale
Wasn’t Donald Trump supposed to announce tonight whether he’s running for President? LOL. Dude got pushed off the news cycle BIG TIME.
Hoya
Thank god. It’s been 9.5 long years.
Thomas
This is so awesome. Okay, now get the hell out of Afghanistan. This is it. This is the opportunity to ratchet that clusterfuck down.
rob!
GOP response: “Typical Obama…not focusing on jobs” in 3..2…1…
Martin
Wait for the right-wing response: “That’s great Obama, but what took you so long?”
Thoughtcrime
This is excellent news for John McCain!
handy
@Loneoak:
Nah, he’ll just demand he release his long form death certificate as proof.
Fred
I have my own prediction since everyone else is jumping in. Birthers will tie this to the release of Obama’s long form birth certificate somehow. How much you want to bet. Apparently they killed Bin Laden a few days ago…..coincidentally around the same time the birth certificate came out…..lol!
Amazingly, this would be considered a somewhat tame dillusional connection by todays standards.
MagicPanda
My guess is that a “smart” winger (krauthemmer?) complains about how we made a mistake by making OBL a martyr, and how our lawless assassination delegitimizes our nation in the eyes of others.
gordon schumway
Courtesy of Digby, today is the 8th anniversary of “Mission Accomplished”.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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Unfortunately, President Obama will not be able to order bin Laden to be tortured in furtherance of his re-election campaign. On the other hand, this is good news for bin Laden’s other U.S. business partners.
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RossInDetroit
Geraldo is an A-1 ding dong and I’m turning this off.
Turgidson
Wow, David Gregory is kind of trivializing this news by being such a putz.
freelancer
Heh. Today is the eighth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” Day.
zzyzx
$100 to spit on Bin Laden’s body.
$1000 to pee on it.
Social Security funded for decades.
Martin
@kdaug: Sounds like it was a CIA operation. I wonder if it happened last week, when Obama announced Panetta moving over to Defense. Job done, and all that.
Southern Beale
Mission fucking accomplished time to go home.
Suffern ACE
@AliceBlue: I will guess they will complain that he doesn’t take it seriously enough unless he uses the word War every other word. But who cares what they think? Fuck yeah.
Fred
@Southern Beale: Errum no. He is going to milk it till the last minute then say he decided he has better things to do. Just like he did the last 2 times.
jethro
I question the timing.
Why won’t Obama release the long-form death certificate?
Edit: dammit … too slow.
Poopyman
Coupla things:
I’m waiting for Allan Greenspan to shuffle behind Andrea Mitchell in his bathrobe.
John King looks like they pried him out of a bar.
Loneoak
@gordon schumway:
Obama has fucking spectacular timing sometimes. Almost makes me believe in 11th dimensional chess.
Fred
@Martin: It happened when Obama was releasing his long form. Coincidence? Ha!
Thomas
ABC already talking about the political “boost” for the Pres. Jeez, can the media not see a single fucking thing for something other than the political narravite?
Benjamin Cisco
There’s a reason for that…
__
Everyone is referencing Bush II’s “dead or alive” comment, but the “he doesn’t matter” comment, not so much.
Gravenstone
@MagicPanda: Possible, but these are the same bed wetters who reach for the smelling salts at the very thought of bringing one of these guys into our legal system on US soil. So, it’s bad that we (apparently) killed and martyred him, but it would have been worse had we captured him alive, don’tchaknow?
SIA
I’m sure I’m not the first to say this, but BO just got reelected. Don’t mean to be petty, but hey. How long has the administration known? Is this why Obama seemed to very pleased last night?
One one station I have David Gregory & Chuck Todd. On the other, Wolfie Blitzer and John King. More choices please.
I told my SO I never thought I’d be happy someone is dead, but fuck OBL in hell with rusty pitchforks.
Mrs Greenspan just said this is the 8th anniversary of “Mission Accomplished’. Oh there is a goddess!
General Stuck
The sound of wingnut heads exploding. One more pawning
Poopyman
@gordon schumway: Ah yes, Andrea Mitchell just said the same thing.
gordon schumway
@Served: Nice one. Maybe UBL was disguised as a woman or child…
suzanne
This is fucking AMAZING.
AMAZING.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
It’s V-T Day! Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy! The War on Terror is over! Johnny comes marching home tomorrow!
Xantar
Can’t help noticing this announcement was made right in the middle of Celebrity Apprentice.
Charity Froggenhall
Drive a stake through OBL’s heart. Just to be sure. And maybe cut off the head and fill the mouth with garlic.
Bob Loblaw
If he really did die in a “mansion” outside fucking Islamabad, the CIA might really be more incompetent than we ever could have thought. Either that or Pakistan is so much more tied into anything than we ever could have thought.
Omnes Omnibus
@Poopyman: Ew. And King is probably just hungover.
Fred
Releasing this on Sunday night means it will be tomorrows headline and dominate the news cycle for a week. Thus maximizing political benefit. Just sayin.
SIA
I’m sure I’m not the first to say this, but BO just got reelected. Don’t mean to be petty, but hey. How long has the administration known? Is this why Obama seemed to very pleased last night?
One one station I have David Gregory & Chuck Todd. On the other, Wolfie Blitzer and John King. More choices please.
I told my SO I never thought I’d be happy someone is dead, but fuck OBL in hell with rusty pitchforks. (What’s wrong with BJ and I just know this is going to end up being a double post).
Mrs Greenspan just said this is the 8th anniversary of “Mission Accomplished’. Oh there is a goddess!
SmallAxe
This IS a big fucking deal!
New Yorker
Boy, do I wish I were a fly on the wall of the Limbaugh residence right now. Ol’ Rushie is going to be binging and purging the oxycontin all night.
Also too, thank god they have the body. There is absolutely no way that al Qaeda can spin this as a positive. Instead of ascending to heaven on a winged horse, the fucker was shot in the head.
Benjamin Cisco
There’s a reason for that…
__
Everyone is referencing Bush II’s “dead or alive” comment, but the “not that concerned about him” comment, not so much.
lamh34
former-Bushie on CNN says it doesn’t matter which administration killed Bin Laden, but then tries to make the xase the Bush admin deserves the MOST credit.
ah…yeah, ok bushie!
RossInDetroit
Oh, some clown is now saying that killing OBL will cause AQ to ramp up their attacks in response.
Nice try.
SteveinSC
Obama was scheduled to go on tv at 10:30, but he hasn’t been able to keep himself from running around the white house and shrieking at the top of his lungs, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus!
burnspbesq
ABC is talking to the old Bushies: Card, Clarke. Why?
Emdee
Nah, they’ll whine that the WH deliberately timed the announcement to preempt Trump’s TV show.
Trump will argue this, at least…
Aaron Fown
Don’t turn on CNN, the coverage is abominable. My friend just observed that CNN has announced that journalism is dead.
Al Jazeera has on screen “U.S. Networks are Reporting Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been Killed.” Which I find quite amusing. Though they seem convinced that is the case as well.
Now where is that news conference, he’s 41 minutes late!
SIA
@Martin: Exactly!
Gene in Princeton
@Served: No. Awesome.
PeakVT
Awesome. I hope US embassies and the like are ready for riots, though.
Thomas
CNN showing people chanting “U.S.A.” outside the White House.
TooManyPaulWs
Bin Laden seems to be dead.
But the war is not over. There were other Al Qaeda leaders (esp. that guy from Egypt) and they’re going to want to keep fighting (and make Osama into a martyr… despite the fact the guy was hiding like a coward…). The fact that Bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan is not going to help our relations with that nation. Not to mention the Taliban/Pakistani Taliban are going to erupt in violence in all directions to prove they can do so.
Not to mention the craziness still going on in the Middle East, including the pseudo-war in Libya.
And you do realize this won’t stop Trump from complaining about Obama’s birth certificate.
Cassidy
Explains the THREATCON increase today.
RinaX
I forgot to mention in my post above, fuck Dick Cheney as well.
Nemo_N
Islamabad.
Not Iraq. Not Afganisthan.
Pakistan.
Bob
President Obama makes a promise.
http://thinkprogress.org/
SIA
At least MSNBC has Richard Engle, the only one of these clowns I can listen to.
Gravenstone
@burnspbesq: You work from the Rolodex you have, not the Rolodex you wish you had.
RossInDetroit
Geraldo wins: “Obama is dead…”
Didn’t take long.
Cacti
Reportedly he was killed in a mansion outside of Islamabad.
Seems like he felt reasonably safe amongst our “allies” in Pakistan.
kdaug
@Martin: Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. An atta-boy – send him to the cush job at DoD, and bring Petraus in to run day-to-day at CIA.
Bill White
There are rumors OBL was killed in a mansion outside Pakistan’s capital city.
Failure, Inc.
Obama got him and Bush didn’t.
Suck on that, GOP. Suck on it and tell me how it tastes, you fuckers.
CaseyL
I’m ecstatic. The bastard should have been killed years ago, and would have been, if the Bush Maladministration hadn’t pulled US forces away from Tora Bora.
I’m furious that Pakistan appears to have given him haven all these years. Be interesting to see the impact this has on an already unstable government and country.
I’m doing a little dance that the Obama Adminstration pulled this off, and what a sour, sour lemon this is going to be for the GOP to swallow.
Even John King has to say this has “enormous enormous signficance.” Betcher ass, bucko.
handy
Why is Andrew Card on my teevee?
danimal
I’ve been waiting for this day since the colossal failure of nerve (or cynical strategy) that was Tora Bora. Good riddance.
A great day!
Donut
David Gregory is likely the stupidest person on television. And that’s saying something.
Anyway, I hope Richard Engel is right and that this is a moment of closure for the Middle East and Muslim world and the US and Europe. One thing Pres Obama is likely to get right is the politics of this – which is to say he will benefit by being pretty even about it, and not over-politicizing it on the domestic stage. He does well with these moments despite what the tea tards will likely say as soon as he finishes talking about it.
Warren Terra
@Mandramas:
Where I am, it’s just barely May. Got any stock tips for me from the last several months?
Morbo
@Southern Beale: Ask and ye shall receive.
JonF
So is Fox news just going to go to bars/tone for the next 72 hours?
The Populist
Interesting, I am flipping around all local channels in L.A. and everybody is covering it but…..FOX.
LOL.
They have to give Obama credit for this just as Reagan always gets credit for destroying the Soviets.
kdaug
Apparently it was HumInt, not a drone strike
furioso ateo
Touchdown!
Petorado
Please, please, please … can we march out Shrub in a codpiece and have him say into a microphone that, “OK, NOW the Mission is Accomplished.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Cassidy: That one goes without saying.
OT: Has this site slowed to a crawl for anyone else? It takes forever for a page to reload.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@kdaug: I thought about that too. I wonder how long ago he was killed (I’m sure they had to make absolutely sure it was him with DNA testing, etc.).
SIA
DAVID GREGORY STFU FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Roger Moore
@RinaX:
With a very rusty pitchfork.
Hoya
If we dont start seriously lowering our footprint in Afghan/Iraq within a year. I’ll be seriously pissed.
fraught
@SIA: This. They should bring Engle home and have him replace both Gregory and that idiot Chuck Todd.
Uloborus
I pray that this rumor is true, because it would be the first. Declarations about what Obama’s going to say in his speeches have been universally wishful thinking so far.
@PeakVT:
‘Riots’ I doubt. OBL was NOT a popular man. Only the craziest of the crazy supported him. His attacks on the US were sideshows to give him cred. His stated mission was to overthrow every government in the Middle East and replace them with theocracies as extreme as the Taliban. Really not a popular man.
BOSS BITCH
The surge worked.
Xecky Gilchrist
Wow, more proof that Obama is better than Bush at everything!
AxelFoley
That President Obama is a muthafuckin’ BEAST. On top of all he’s accomplished, he’s done in two years what Bush couldn’t do in eight.
All the haters–eat it.
Keith G
Gonna breakout the single malt and toast the scores of brave soldiers who went to those hell holes thinking they would be the ones who got this man.
MikeJ
OBAMA AKBAR!
Some people dress up and play soldier, some people get it the fuck done!
Fuck yeah! Crowds outside the White House singing God Bless America.
handy
@BOSS BITCH:
Great news for John McCain!
dr. bloor
@Cacti:
Knock me over with a feather.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
andrew levy tweeted ‘fox news is reporting osama bin laden is dead’ i tweeted back,”when will a reputable news outlet confirm” he never retweets or returns, and i think he is the most competent person on that channel.
now the question is, how much more of a story would this be, if bush or another goper was in office?
lamh34
From twitter:
SIA
@fraught: Gregory gave a half hearted effort to try to throw some credit to GWB. Nice try, Stretch.
Fun comments already starting on the right wing blogs. Pass the popcorn pleez.
OMG I’m shallow, but the WHCD & Dead OBL in one weekend. We needed this good news.
Thomas
@MikeJ:
That makes me simultaneously proud and a little embarrassed for some reason. It just reminds me of the scenes of people celebrating in the arab world after 9/11.
The Dangerman
Announced on May Day! So, Obama IS a communist.
I’m broke and I’d drop quite a few bills (gotta love Cash Advances) to piss on Osama’s grave. Not all, gotta save a few dollars for when Cheney’s ticker goes kablooey.
Bluehill
Waiting for Fox to say that killing OBL isn’t that big of a deal.
Anne Laurie
@Bob Loblaw:
The Guardian’s been saying that about Pakistan for some time, and hinting that the CIA likes it that way.
I’m glad OBL is demonstably dead, and hoping the stress of this announcement kills Darth Cheney’s mechanical heart as well.
Failure, Inc.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, we have his body, and Obama led the winning strategy.
Suck on that, Republicans. Suck on that and tell me how it tastes, you fuckers.
Wag
@gordon schumway:
FTW.
NOW, I believe in Mission Accomplished!
CaseyL
Wolf’s going on and on about fine-tuning the official announcement and that’s what’s taking so long. I think the President and his National Security Team are probably still doing victory dances and need to wait until they can stop laughing cheering and high-fiving each other.
fraught
Let’s remember to say “fuck Condi Rice” just for the hell of it.
Cassidy
@Omnes Omnibus: The gate guys side it was from the Libya thing yesterday, which made sense.
We’re about to break BJ.
PeakVT
@BOSS BITCH: Lolz.
Studly Pantload, now with enhanced schmuckosity
Just heard a report about bin Laden’s diminishing influence with al Qaeda. I don’t care if they kicked out. Good fucking riddance.
Fred
@SteveinSC: Seriously doubt that. Not his style at all.
But MSNBC said there was a flash mob that formed in front of the WH and started singing we are the champions. Yea, kind of sickening and entirely inappropriate on multiple levels. At least that was my first though.
Studly Pantload, now with enhanced schmuckosity
Just heard a report about bin Laden’s diminishing influence with al Qaeda. I don’t care if they kicked him out. Good fucking riddance.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
@SIA:
Just like Carter got reelected after the Camp David Accords and Bush I got reelected after Gulf War I.
Obama still should be favored but this will have little to do with it.
gwangung
Good.
But that’s probably not going to change our screwed up foreign policy or probably our equally screwed up tendency to use force at the slightest provocation in the Third World.
Poopyman
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, although I expect it’ll take you about 10 minutes to read this.
Everybody’s refreshing!
Odie Hugh Manatee
My wife came up with the winger story that will develop around this:
Obama is a secret Muslim and was able to obtain information on where Osama was. Obama then ordered the military to take Osama out and keep it secret. Now Obama is releasing the information since he is now campaigning for reelection.
I gotta admit that she might be right on this…lol!
I hope they bury Osama face down. Might as well get him pointed in the right direction, eh? If there is a hell I hope that Osama is slow roasting on a spit in the lowest level.
AxelFoley
Change I can believe in!
Obama Bumaye!
RossInDetroit
Fox is still warning us that this will be a catalyst for more terror. Always the downside.
Comrade Luke
Prediction: this will be spun as great news for…Petraeus, who will run for president as The Man Who Killed Bin Laden.
Omnes Omnibus
@CaseyL: They’re just milking it now.
Lit3Bolt
@Nemo_N:
Exactly. The commentariat are quick to point out that the War on Terror is not yet over and will go on, Whack-A-Mole style, for all eternity.
This should be more of an indictment of military performance vs. police work for killing and catching terrorists. France didn’t have to invade all of Africa and wreck their economy to find Carlos. I wonder if we had just put a 1 trillion dollar price tag on Osama’s head how long it would’ve taken for his own family to turn him in…
suzanne
Here come Obama.
srv
Can’t remember who said it, but remember a theory that OBL had been under house arrest by the ISI for years.
Wag
I am so proud of our president. Thanks for doing what the GOP didn’t have the guts to finish
gwangung
I’ll co-sign with Jeff Yang:
MagicPanda
Good on Obama for reminding us of our unity after 9/11…
Martin
I’m thinking that Panetta will be easily confirmed for SecDef.
gwangung
I can co-sign on this, too.
SIA
@Shoemaker-Levy 9: I disagree. This will move a lot of independents.
IronyAbounds
Christ, can’t Obama do ANYTHING right? He’s not wearing a flight suit for God’s sake.
Aaron Fown
He was taken with special forces, apparently. So much for drone strikes.
AxelFoley
@gwangung:
Man, fuck that noise. We’ve been chasing that bastard for over 10 years. Muthafucka presided over the worse terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil, so you damn skippy I’m gonna celebrate us baggin’ him.
SIA
FOX headline, and I am not kidding.
Morans.
Bluehill
Wow. Great speech. GoBama!
licensed to kill time
There are screaming cheering crowds outside the White House. Holeeee Shit.
Wow.
CaseyL
Hey, if I lived near DC, I’d be out there chanting, too.
Mark S.
Ha!
Keith G
@gwangung:
I won’t. We are allowed a bit of celebration.
Ajay
I think Trump will take the credit for it on Fox. Without his tauntings, Obama wouldnt have authorized the operation.
JMY
If this is not a true indictment of Bush & Cheney I don’t know what is. Show much time, money, & lives were fucking wasted in Iraq.
@IronyAbounds:
Obama will never get credit for anything.
Bob
America! Fuck, yeah!!!!!
Bluehill
Obama – all cattle, no hat.
gwangung
@Keith G: Well, OK. A couple whoops and a fist pump is appropriate.
But I’d be busting ass to get out of Afghanistan and apologize to all the folks we bombed along the way who were pretty clearly not involved in terrorism.
CaseyL
I love that the Obama Administration has been working on this since fucking August and nobody knew anything about it. As leaky as the WH can be, that’s a miracle all by itself.
No one of Importance
Yes you are. And I say that as someone who normally hates American jingoistic nonsense.
Bin Laden hurt a lot of people on Sept 11, 2001, but America took the biggest hit. American forces took him out. That’s righteous. Congratulations, USA.
Omnes Omnibus
@IronyAbounds: Win.
Mary Jane
@Cassidy:
Interesting — I didn’t realize it had. Perhaps that explains why this morning was the only time I’ve seen a Homeland Security Blackhawk helicopter.
Anne Laurie
@Comrade Luke: LOL. “So THAT’s what the reassignment was about!”
Thomas
That had to be a surreal experience for those spec ops guys involved. After all these years to actually see that bastard, AND TO BE ABLE TO SHOOT HIM to boot!
JCT
@CaseyL: Just a difference between our cerebral President and our former one. Bush would have sent in 10,000 Marines.
Or more likely, Cheney would have nuked Islamabad when Bush was in the bathroom or something.
licensed to kill time
Good gawd, it’s taking eight years to refresh BJ.
Scott P.
The video game industry just got several years worth of material.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
@SIA:
Bush Sr’s approval rating was 89% at the end of the war, which was roughly at the same point in his term as Obama is in his. Bush Jr’s approval shot up a dozen points or so after Hussein was captured. One thing about Americans is that they have such short attention spans they forget how short their attention spans are.
handy
@licensed to kill time:
OK. I thought it was just me.
Johnny Coelacanth
This only sweetens that joke that the President made about Trump last night, about making big decisions. Now I know what the President was thinking when he flashed that grin: “While you’re on TV pretending to fire has-beens, I’m sitting on the biggest intelligence news in ten years. Have fun running for president, asshole.”
Triassic Sands
@SIA:
Nonsense. If Donald Trump had been president, he would have gone to the Pakistanis and said, “Listen motherfuckers, turn that sumbitch over to me tonight or I’m going to level your entire country with nukes. You have ten minutes…
Needless to say, Osama bin Laden would have been turned over immediately to Trump, proving that being a foul-mouthed bully willing to exterminated millions of people in the effort to get one is exactly what we need as president.
On a more serious note, the unemployment rate will very likely matter a lot more on election day than the nearly two-years old death of a terrorist, even bin Laden. Killing bin Laden while Obama is president is not going to change the mind of a single wing nut or ignorant independent voter. That’s because there is a substantial anti-Obama vote that can’t be touched by any event or development. If the economy is still bad enough, Obama will have an uphill fight to win reelection, though, I expect him to win a close election, as things stand right now.
In the end, I think his best chance of winning rests on how bad the Republican nominee is. Right now, it looks inevitable that they’re going to choose someone virtually unelectable. But there are Republicans who might beat Obama, if they decide to run. For example, I think NJ governor Christie’s nearly air-tight refusal was good news for Obama (and the rest of the world), but people have changed their minds before. Flip-flopping is not a capital offense in American politics.
Anyway, though I would love to believe you are right, I think you’re giving bin Laden’s death far more importance than it will have on election day 2012.
roshan
Look now to the wingnut wurlitzer to go in overdrive to find ways to say that this news doesn’t mean much. If anything Bush and Cheney need to get all the credit. The democrats didn’t support the Iraqi surge so this means that they lost already. The loopiness is going to come strong and from all directions.
gwangung
Heh.
licensed to kill time
@handy:
Not just you. The servers are groaning under the onslaught.
Captain! The engines canna take it! She’s gonna blow!
JMY
Bush & Cheney should have there asses beat on national television. I can’t be the only one who is mad that we wasted all that time in Iraq and he’s in Pakistan. Why are the news stations interviewing GWB officials? They failed badly.
Elizabelle
I liked how President Obama made clear that we are not at war with Islam, and that bin Laden was not a Muslim religious leader.
Also that he was generous enough to add that President GW Bush had said this as well.
Class act, our President.
Scott P.
So Abottabad isn’t that big, and we know that Bin Laden was in a walled compound about 8x larger than its neighbors. Who can find it on Google Maps?
srv
Mission Accomplished.
Sasha
“Sorry it took so long to get a copy of my birth certificate. I was too busy killing Osama bin Laden.”
Poopyman
@Scott P.: Um, not that easy. It’s easy enough to find Abottabad by searching Google Maps, but it ain’t exactly a one–goat town.
My money’s on some place right close to the Abottabad Golf Club.
And how come no one has made the joke about the US first having looked in Costellobad?
piratedan
@Scott P.: right next to Costellostan
AxelFoley
@srv:
Win.
AxelFoley
@Sasha:
Win Part II.
MikeJ
@Thomas: You think cheering the death of a mass murderer is the same as cheering the death of thousands of his victims? That’s, uhm, odd.