Would Romney have gotten bin Laden? Well, maybe
In 2007, then-candidate Barack Obama made it clear what he would do as president if he learned that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan and that U.S. forces had a chance to take him out:
“If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and (Pakistani) President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
His then-opponent, Hillary Clinton, took a similar stance:
“If we had actionable intelligence that Osama bin Laden or other high-value targets were in Pakistan I would ensure that they were targeted and killed or captured.”
However, another presidential candidate took issue with such statements, as Reuters reported at the time:
“I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours… I don’t think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends to our effort,” (Mitt) Romney told reporters on the campaign trail….
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is one of the Republican front-runners, said U.S. troops “shouldn’t be sent all over the world.” He called Obama’s comments “ill-timed” and “ill-considered.”
“There is a war being waged by terrorists of different types and nature across the world,” Romney said. “We want, as a civilized world, to participate with other nations in this civilized effort to help those nations reject the extreme with them.”
In 2008, as the primary season heated up, the debate continued.
“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,” Romney said in a GOP debate. After that statement drew harsh criticism from John McCain and others, Romney toughened his language a few days later, suggesting that he would indeed target bin Laden.
Obama, on the other hand, stuck to his original position:
“We need more troops, more helicopters, more satellites, more Predator drones in the Afghan border region. And we must make it clear that if Pakistan cannot or will not act, we will take out high-level terrorist targets like bin Laden if we have them in our sights.”
Based on the evidence, it’s too much to argue that Romney would not have committed the manpower and money needed to track bin Laden. You also can’t argue that Romney would have balked at sending troops into Pakistan to kill the terrorist leader. Maybe he would have.
But against that “maybe,” you have the fact that another man had told us quite clearly what he would do if given the chance, and then did it.
– Jay Bookman
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Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
7:15 pm
“It is. Hey our business is booming. We are hiring new people all the time”- pass the cheesy grits
I’ve never known McDonalds to not be hiring new people.
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
April 30th, 2012
7:15 pm
Stunned that Romney is so close in those polls. I wonder what percentage of the undecided have decided they wont vote for either one?
Paul
April 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
Heyward
So now you’re maintaining the ISI has a history of cooperative engagement with the US in working toward mutually supportive objectives regarding Islamists?
Really?
Do you have something you can paste in telling us why?
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
“Well, I declare! I hope this state’s Republicans weren’t lying to me about lowering insurance costs by opening the state up to competition.”
You didn’t really think that these insurance companies, who’ve got you bent over grabbing your ankles, are gonna go in for anything like that, did you?
Like I said, buy 2, get the third one free.
Moderate Line
April 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
Here is my rating of Obama and Romney”
Obama = mediocre
Romney = ?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
7:17 pm
O’BOZO !!!!
Can MARXIST be far behind?
Nope.
Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
USMC,
To add to that I saw where only one time in the past 30 years has a president who trailed the challenger in a gallup poll in April still won re-election. That potus was W in 04. And the economy in 04 was a helluva lot better than it is now. Matter of fact it was a lot better in 04.
Thomas Heyward jr
April 30th, 2012
7:21 pm
Paul ——
.
Like I said earlier………you defend the FDA.(the FDA doesn’t “protect” anyone)
..Something went wrong with your cognitive abilities.
I will not waste time in debating you…or any trained seal with a frontal lobotomy.
.
I’m out.
.
Carry on with your State worship.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
7:23 pm
Some of you have to occasionally put the Kool-aid down…
What a vile and disgusting cliche.
If and when someone does drink the “Kool-aid”, they will put it down immediately when they die almost instantaneously.
Does your reference to an incidence of mass suicide make you feel like you are clever?
They BOTH suck
April 30th, 2012
7:23 pm
Thomas
Tell Alex Jones and David Icke that I said hello
Peace
Brosephus™
April 30th, 2012
7:26 pm
What, now you’re advocating letting the ‘free market’ regulate e coli?
Paul
April 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
Heyward
You bounce between national security strategy and support for the FDA and something’s wrong with my cognitive abilities?
Okey dokey, then!
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
Still one of the most energetic, dynamic live cuts I’ve ever heard.
G Mare 71( got the living' the red state BLUES!)
April 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
Has anyone else seen the pic of Romney speaking at Otterbein(sp?) College with a couple of students asleep behind him?
:):)
Bill Orvis White
April 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
The Usama bin Laden capture will only take Hussein Obama so far – in the face of high taxes, high unemployment, high gas price$, ridiculous regulation, an anti-Life agenda and a contempt for Judeo-Christian traditions. The bedrock principles have been eroded under this so-called administration over these past three-plus years and Real America caught on pretty much out of the gate. History has shown that this anti-colonialist attitude, pro-socialistic viewpoint fails. This is why the honorable Governor Willard “Mitt” Romney will triumph over this callous evil that has infected this once-free nation’s precious soil.
WE THE PEOPLE (Tea Party Republicans) KNOW that the best thing Hussein Obama did with the Usama bin Laden capture is that HE GOT OUT OF THE WAY. I say in earnest: Thank you Honorable President George Walker Bush for killing Usama bin Laden as well as his partner-in-crime, Saddam Hussein. Would President Romney take out an evil dictator? Of course! Liberal Jay’s post is a waste of time here. Sorry, just had to say it.
Amen,
Bill
Steve - USA (I support "None Of The Above")
April 30th, 2012
7:37 pm
Kamchak-
I am more clever than you will ever live to be. Doesn’t a nail need hammering somewhere? LMAO
F. Sinkwich
April 30th, 2012
7:39 pm
Well, I see Sooth has mastered the Granny DNC C&P two-step.
Congrats, Sooth!
Old Goober
April 30th, 2012
7:41 pm
Some of you have over-indulged in the Kool-Aid if you think it was possible to call up the Pakistani government and get an OK to send Navy Seals in to kill bin Laden—you know, the guy who was holed up in Pakistan’s equivalent of our West Point? The guy who was hiding in a town crawling with Pakistani generals? The Pakistani intelligence services are NOT on our side. They had been alerting bin Laden to threats for years. Even now, the Pakistani government won’t let us move fuel through their country to support our troops in Afghanistan. Am I writing to school children here? Has partisanship now overcome common sense?
PJ
April 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
Hell, Romney is still fighting the Cold War (I wonder if he too can see Russia from is house).
William Smith
April 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
To comdemn anyone for using a situation for political gain in our present political climate is absolutely absurd. People losing homes and jobs is now a political football. Both parties are in the pocket of special interest and care less about our security both physical and economic. Time for politicans to stop wraping themselves in the mantles of Republican and Democrat and wrap themselves in the American flag. The American public deserves better than what we are getting. I believe our leaders should take a phrase from Lincoln. To paraphase ” Men will long note nor remember what we said here , but will never forget what they did here. Where are the Lincolns now only on show room floors.
Brandt Hardin
April 30th, 2012
7:46 pm
One year after Bin Laden’s death and over 10 years since 9/11, American citizens are still blindly allowing their civil liberties to be taken away one piece of legislation at a time. How much freedom are we willing to sacrifice to feel safe? Under the guise of fighting terrorism, the Patriot Act was adopted WITHOUT public approval or vote just weeks after the twin towers fell. A mere 3 criminal charges of terrorism a year are attributed to this act, which is mainly used for no-knock raids leading to drug-related arrests without proper cause for search and seizure. The laws are simply a means to spy on our own citizens and to detain and torture dissidents without trial or a right to council. You can read much more about living in this Orwellian society of fear and see my visual response to these measures on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
“Well, I see Sooth has mastered the Granny DNC C&P two-step.
Congrats, Sooth!”
Sinkhole: in all the “painful” years you have been posting on this marginally meaningful blog, I have yet to witness your quoting of something other than your — well — pathetic opinion. Which, by the way, I would not want to diminish.
You should try it sometime. Post some blather from some Fright-Wing website. I’m sure we’d all like to see it! If you don’t know how, I’ll be glad to walk you through it.
But, you see, other than insults, no one yet has posted anything that challenges any assertions I have made in my posts — including our esteemed host.
Sinkhole: accept it. You’re nothing more than a marginal player.
F. Sinkwich
April 30th, 2012
7:55 pm
“Sinkhole: accept it. You’re nothing more than a marginal player.”
It could be worse. I could be a euro-socialist Marxist like you.
Paul
April 30th, 2012
7:56 pm
Old Goober
“Has partisanship now overcome common sense?”
Well, that presupposes common sense was in evidence before they started with the partisanship regarding Pakistan and bin Laden….
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
8:01 pm
Sinkhole: you mission — should you choose to accept it — is to post the meaning of Socialism, and the meaning of Socialist.
We’re all waiting with baited breath. Please don’t keep us waiting.
(Here’s how to do it. Open a new tab. Type in “Socialism” in the google search engine bar. Highlight the pertinent text and then right click and choose “copy.” Then, come back to “good ol’ Jay’s” (who’s nearing retirement and — for sure — doesn’t want to rock the boat) blog and right click “paste.” See how easy that is? Even you can do it.)
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
Romney wouldn’t have gone after OBL?
He would have done another flip flop if he had, oh grossly uninformed one.
“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person [Osama bin Laden].” ~Flip (Flop) Romney, 2007.
Your soft on national security weenie is unelectable.
And you cut and run chickenhawks got punked at your own game by a community organizer.
Too funny…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
8:13 pm
Doesn’t a nail need hammering somewhere?
I certainly know a tool when I see one.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
Here’s one they haven’t yet figured out how to pull down. Enjoy while you can.
Union
April 30th, 2012
8:19 pm
for the folks that feel our economy has made a drastic turnaround.. i suggest you get your information from the source.. our own government..
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/pages/TextView.aspx?data=yieldYear&year=2012
USMC
April 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/
Surprised???
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
8:27 pm
You can’t imagine how many rocks I had to turn over to find this! My absolute fav BD!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
8:28 pm
Surprised???
From the Moonie Times?
Not even mildly startled.
USMC
April 30th, 2012
8:29 pm
El Presidente Barry Hussein Obama – The November Socialist Revolution!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/healinglight/3004398986/
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
8:35 pm
What in the name of Yahweh possesses you Republiloons to be Joseph McCarthy losers sixty friggin’ years on???
Talk about stuck on stupid!
F. Sinkwich
April 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
“And you cut and run chickenhawks got punked at your own game by a community organizer.”
Chickenhawks!
Can chairbornie references be far behind?
Nope.
DwayneL
April 30th, 2012
8:38 pm
The US Navy Seals killed bin laden, not obama!!!
F. Sinkwich
April 30th, 2012
8:40 pm
Yo, Sooth.
Look up euro-socialist.
Then you can do the Granny C&P two-step again.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
SOCIALIST !!!!
Can ILK be far behind?
Nope.
barking frog
April 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
Will OBL followers come
calling on the guy who
took him out?
PJ
April 30th, 2012
8:43 pm
Boy, you guys are working overtime searching for llinks. If I really wanted to I could find a link or two that say we are desedants of Martians to make a point but who would care and what does it prove.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
If I really wanted to I could find a link or two that say we are desedants of Martians to make a point but who would care and what does it prove.
I’d say that would be pretty cool.
Progressive Humanist
April 30th, 2012
8:46 pm
Romney never would have had the gonads to kill Bin Laden. But he sure wanted GM dead.
Luckily for this nation, Bin Laden is dead and GM is is chugging along.
And let us not forget that the worst terrorist attack ever happened on Bush’s watch, as did the worst recession since the great depression.
Republicans: weak on terror and terrible with the economy.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
so·cial·ism noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
Heck, Sinkhole, I didn’t realize I was a Socialist until you pointed it out to me.
PJ
April 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
DwayneL @8:38 pm
Yes they did and great job, but Obama was the “Decider”.
Paul
April 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
DwayneL.
“The US Navy Seals killed bin laden, not obama!!!”
That may be a statement that makes you sound like a national security staff member on Redstate.com, but here it just makes you sound silly.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
Sinkhole: I can’t find “euro-socialist.” Maybe you could post it for us all.
F. Sinkwich
April 30th, 2012
8:53 pm
“Heck, Sinkhole, I didn’t realize I was a Socialist until you pointed it out to me.”
Glad to help, Sooth.
I’m really into community service.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
8:55 pm
If I really wanted to I could find a link or two that say we are desedants (sic) of Martians…
I’m sure you could.
And Elvis lives next door to you…
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
8:56 pm
Report: Bin Laden Already Dead
Published December 26, 2001 FoxNews.com
Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
“The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead,” the source said.
Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.
Hey! Focked News cain’t be wrong, now can they?
Cmdr Oligovsky
April 30th, 2012
8:57 pm
Well, comrades. How are we this evening? Everyone excited about the red dawn coming upon us tomorrow courtesy of our Occupy Wall Street allies?
hryder
April 30th, 2012
8:58 pm
He also said that he would rectify a myriad of other situations. He has failed at to do so or kicked the situation down the road to a later time and/or president. The man is incompetent and a disaster as president except as vacationer and being the chief entertainer. What we need as a country is a leader who has shown success in the private sector area, not in just winning elections with pie in the sky promises of which few he has accomplished.Vote out all incumbent elected office holders in the November elections.
Cmdr Oligovsky
April 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
May Day tomorrow. Woohoooo!
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
Left behind!
All those “Left Behind” books were right! Don’t let this happen to YOU!
Cmdr Oligovsky
April 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
We will show those capitalist pigs who is boss tomorrow. We ware the proletariat. We are the 99%!
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
Welcome meat.
The other stuck on stupid Joseph McCarthy losers here can always use a new buddy!
Cmdr Oligovsky
April 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
Are all of you going to join the marches tomorrow?
weetamoe
April 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
It is not enough for Obama to receive praise from all republican candidates for what foreign policy successes he has had. He has to turn it into a fight with claims of what his opponents would not have done. Though he could not possibly know. What a small and petty man he is revealing himself to be.
Cmdr Oligovsky
April 30th, 2012
9:15 pm
Obama is the leader of the free world. Bringing fairness to America.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
9:20 pm
Headline: “US not reporting all Afghan troop attacks on American soldiers”
“The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or foreign solider is killed by an Afghan in uniform. But The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds — or misses — his U.S. or allied target. It also does not report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/30/us-not-reporting-all-afghan-troop-attacks-on-american-soldiers/
The above is very similar to what Jay does when he writes an anti-gun editorial.
He compares the number of people killed accidentally by guns vs. the number of “justifiable homicides” with guns but fails to include:
The number of perpetrators wounded by gun toters.
The number of perpetrators scared off by a miss.
The number of perpetrators scared off because they saw a gun.
The number of perpetrators scared off because they thought their proposed victim might have a gun.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
9:21 pm
HEADLINE: “SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137636/SEALs-slam-Obama-using-ammunition-bid-credit-bin-Laden-killing-election-campaign.html#ixzz1tZovxyBS
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
9:23 pm
Headline: “Rabbit holes appear at Jay Bookman’s blog”
SSDD
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
April 30th, 2012
9:26 pm
Well, I got bored with this topic and started reading about the testimony in the John Edwards trial. From what I’ve read I’d say Edwards will be a guest of the State of North Carolina and Bubba for about 15 years. You can stick a fork in this guy or whatever else Bubba wants to stick in him. And there’s worse testimony to come. All this juicy stuff is going on and all we got to fuss about is killing this Obama bin Laden. The only question I have is how many more will go to jail with Edwards. There’s a bunch of rich people that paid for all his shenigans, and the couple testifying now used $1.5 million of the money to buy theirselfs a house. Good thing for one of the big-money donors that he died.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
SEALS don’t go down rabbit holes. They tell it like it is and do what it takes.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
Headline:
“Ignoring irrelevant crap at Jay Bookman’s blog is labeled failure to debate”
SSDD
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
9:32 pm
What a hoot.
A pansyassed, lil spoon fed, billionaire Boston baby who has never had to fight for anything in his cushy life, denigrating a self made, highly decorated United States naval officer.
I do believe the boy has a chance at becoming a real swiftboater.
And it will be great fun watching you other pansyassed lil swiftboaters pee all over yourselves when he gets spanked in November
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
9:33 pm
Kammie:
RTMN
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
Redneck: I’d say some of them “female condoms” would be advisable in this situation.
Cmdr Oligovsky
April 30th, 2012
9:36 pm
Obama is a Seal Sniper
kayaker 71
April 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
You would think that Bozo was in one of the Blackhawks and was personally going to deliver the fatal blow. The way the liberals tell it, he was certainly with his hand on the radios that were communicating with Seal Team six telling them to go this way or that on their way to the second floor.
Truth would have it, he was on the gold course. Yeah, the golf course. It took him about an hour and a half to make it to the situation room where he was dressed in something to hide his golf shirt and placed in the corner with a deer in the headlights look when the actual video was being run. You would think that he led the Seal team. I guess if this is your only accomplishment in 3 and one half years, except the Nobel Prize for peace, you have to toot your horn pretty loudly to see if you can make any impression on the voters. We’re smarter than that.
PJ
April 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
Small and petty? Mission Accoplished was bragadous and premature. Mr. Obama did what seven years of Bush could and would not. Any man or women who runs for the of of POTUS naturallly has a big ego. It is not a job for the faint at heart or anyone with low self esteem. You must love your country and yourself and pump up your achivements and down play your failures. Understanding this will help you understand why there are only 42 members in this club.
bman
April 30th, 2012
9:38 pm
This subject with Bin Laden will be discussed a lot during the campaigns/debates. It’s going to stir up a lot of crazy Bin Laden fans.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
9:40 pm
You don’t think . . . naw! Something like that would be unthinkable. Right? RIGHT!??
Not Part of Romney's Flock
April 30th, 2012
9:42 pm
“We Got Him”
Bush was such a hero when he assisted the unit that captured Saddam
I can remember like it was yesterday when he came on tv and said “We got him”….
Not sure if he flew cover or was actually on the ground working within the unit…… Either way it must have been a sight to see
jconservative
April 30th, 2012
9:43 pm
“The sad thing is that this is the great achievement of the Messiah. A decision that any idiot would have made.”
History lesson: Bush had the opportunity in 2001 and declined to give the order. Is Bush an idiot?
Joe Biden has the best line of the year: “…Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive.”
That fact will make Obama hard to defeat at the polls.
The US spent 10 years trying to kill bin Laden. Whether you like it or do not like it, Obama killed him.
Whether you like it or not like it, over one million people have a job today because GM is alive.
As John Adams noted…”…facts are stubborn things.”
Romney and company need to get one thing through their heads, “it’s the economy stupid”. Attacking Obama on foreign policy will prove to be a loser.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
9:43 pm
See me: I believe that if you buy 2, you get one free! I never question “reality.”
TGT
April 30th, 2012
9:44 pm
HA HA!!! Look at the libs trying to make Obozo into a Hawk!!! Leave it to today’s Democrat Party to try and make political hay out of an effort that they shamelessly despised and opposed for years. And Jay, I thought that this was “an American triumph, not a political triumph.”
As I noted last year:
It is quite humorous to watch the libs here fall over Obama for this military success. The FACT is that there is NO WAY this happens without the efforts of the Bush administration. Obama’s admin. deserves some credit for this, but to declare that Obama “carries a big stick” is laughable. When drawing conclusions on Obama’s foreign policy and military strengths/successes, one must consider all of his efforts and not one isolated success that was only possible because of a previous administration.
From the NYT:
A trusted courier of Osama bin Laden’s whom American spies had been hunting for years was finally located in a compound 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, close to one of the hubs of American counterterrorism operations. The property was so secure, so large, that American officials guessed it was built to hide someone far more important than a mere courier…
As Obama administration officials described it, the real breakthrough came when they finally figured out the name and location of Bin Laden’s most trusted courier, whom the Qaeda chief appeared to rely on to maintain contacts with the outside world.
Detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had given the courier’s pseudonym to American interrogators and said that the man was a protégé of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
American intelligence officials said Sunday night that they finally learned the courier’s real name four years ago, but that it took another two years for them to learn the general region where he operated…
And as the Fox News article that I linked to earlier implied, it appears that the courier’s real name came through “enhanced interrogation efforts.” So, Osama is dead as a result of the efforts at Gitmo–a placed despised by libs, which Obama promised to close–through enhanced interrogation–despised and condemned by libs, even to the point of threatening impeachment–yet the libs are celebrating and praising this military achievement? Oh well, speaking for the “cons:” YOU’RE WELCOME!
PJ
April 30th, 2012
9:45 pm
From some of the comments hear you would think their are some who would rather see bin Laden still alive. What a bunch of haters! Sounds like a lot of sour grapes are being served with the Kool Aid.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
9:45 pm
Headline: ” ‘yaker types the word “Bozo” on Jay Bookman’s blog”
SSDD
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
And as the Fox News article that I linked to…
There’s your sign.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
9:51 pm
TGT, no need.
You bumbling Republicans and inept chickenhawks are as transparent as glass.
You are thhe very worst kind of summer soldiers and sunshine patriots.
Instead of joining in with the rest of the free world and cheering the death of Public Enemy Number One, all all you deranged malcontents do is seethe and hate that the President of the United States of America gave the kill order.
Pathetic with a capital P…
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
9:54 pm
What a beautiful, poignant anthem by JT. Thank God he didn’t shave his head!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:04 pm
What a bunch of haters! Sounds like a lot of sour grapes are being served with the Kool Aid.
Very crappy and vile cliche.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
10:10 pm
Well, I’m gonna leave you with this one since I ain’t got “no particular place to go.”
ragnar danneskjold
April 30th, 2012
10:11 pm
Seems like every time the Obamaniacs throw mud at Romney it backfires worse onto them – (a) the Catholic Church reaction to the abotifacient initiative that was part of the “contraception” diversion, (b) the Obama dog-eating jokes that drowned out the Obamaniacs allegations on Romney’s method of transporting dogs, (c) now the SEALs reacting to the ludicrous suggestion that Obama had a difficult decision to make in the assassination of bin-Laden. Romney’s mocking line – that “even Jimmy Carter would have made that call” – is a two-fer. I like Romney better every day.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
10:16 pm
Kammie:
TVEK
Paul
April 30th, 2012
10:18 pm
TGT
Another case of cons being the one alleging no libs acknowledge the Obama Administration built upon the base of the Bush Administration. But to tell the whole story, cons are loathe to acknowledge, as the CIA Director noted, Pres Obama made it a top priority and resources were allocated to reflect that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:19 pm
I like Romney better every day.
No kidding.
He is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party.
The fact that you are admitting in an open forum that you are only now warming up to him is worthy of derisive laughter.
Who else would you choose, pirate-boy?
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
10:20 pm
JOEL: I think you should get a refund on that money you paid for your GED diploma. The correct spelling is “masturbate.”
Just one more! Listen carefully to the piano part!
Get Real
April 30th, 2012
10:23 pm
There is no question that Obama deserves credit for making the decison to take out OBL. With that said, a true leader with a big stick does not have to brag about it as that is a clear sign that there is NOT a big stick.
For the democrats to even hint that Romney or any sitting President would not have made the same call is not only absurd but offensive.
PJ
April 30th, 2012
10:23 pm
Very crappy and vile cliche.
Surely not vile, Not after some of the things I’ve read here said about the President. But if that is the case then it appears to me I’ve learned from the masters of the most vile, evil. hate spewing, uneducated, unread and ignorant bunch of indivduals that ever had the misfortune of ever leaning to write, Is that vile enough for you?
William Pierce
April 30th, 2012
10:23 pm
Jay has worn out 5 sets of free Obamalips kissing Oblunders ass on any topic.Good news is the democRAT party is overnighting some replacement lips so Jay can continue the lovefest.
j$
April 30th, 2012
10:25 pm
Say it. Say it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5k6toS7i8
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:26 pm
“Who else would you choose, pirate-boy?”
Likely, some other pansyass, swiftboating wannabe like Newt or Herman…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
10:27 pm
Headline: “Obama insists he’s not trumpeting bin Laden’s death for votes”
Well, there you go.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:28 pm
With that said, a true leader with a big stick does not have to brag about it as that is a clear sign that there is NOT a big stick.
Did someone say something about big sticks and bragging?
getalife
April 30th, 2012
10:28 pm
Weird, weak willard is too soft to be President.
Our President will crush him like he did today.
paulo 977
April 30th, 2012
10:28 pm
josef
April 30th, 2012
4:53 pm
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Indeed , Indeed!
Obama is awfully hawkish for a Euro Socialist Muslim, ain’t he?
TGT
April 30th, 2012
10:30 pm
JamVet: So you consider these guys “inept chickenhawks?!”
Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election campaign.
The SEALs spoke out to MailOnline after the Obama campaign released an ad entitled ‘One Chance’.
…
Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, said: ‘The decision was a no brainer. I applaud him for making it but I would not overly pat myself on the back for making the right call.
‘I think every president would have done the same. He is justified in saying it was his decision but the preparation, the sacrifice – it was a broader team effort.’
Mr Zinke, who is now a Republican state senator in Montana, added that MR Obama was exploiting bin Laden’s death for his re-election bid. ‘The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable.’
Bottom line: Obozo is attempting to run on the ONE positive event of his pathetic presidency. The problem is, when closely examined, his self-congratulations ring hollow, and he looks ridiculous.
getalife
April 30th, 2012
10:30 pm
Our President can’t be beat on national security.
willard learned that fact today.
getalife
April 30th, 2012
10:33 pm
Getting obl was the first accomplishment for our President to mention this cycle.
willard’s first flop.
More to come…..