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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j$
April 30th, 2012
10:35 pm
getalife,
Are you with the SS?
Get Real
April 30th, 2012
10:36 pm
getalife…..are you blogging from an insane asylum as your rants are truly delusional. If not in an asylum already then you need to seek help immediately…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
10:37 pm
Get Real:
I think getalife is Jay.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:38 pm
With that said, a true leader with a big stick does not have to brag about it…
Please show me where he has.
For Romney to even hint that James Earl Carter or any former President would not have made the same call is not only absurd but offensive.
But I’m loving watch you neocons like TGT squirm over this anniversary.
Great stuff…
Jay
April 30th, 2012
10:38 pm
Having read that Daily Mail story, it’s the lamest bit of troll bait I’ve seen in a long, long time.
You guys are truly desperate to be citing that one.
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
10:38 pm
“Obama, on the other hand, stuck to his original position…”
Yet I think it could be conclusively shown that Obama has not stuck to his “original position” in a number instances, so I am not sure what the point of this column might be. Hopefully, not to spread propaganda.
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
10:39 pm
j$: that 10:25 is about the funniest thing I have ever seen. Scout: you should check this out.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
10:41 pm
Headline: “Man Sues BMW Over Non-Stop 20-Month Erection Caused By Motorcycle Ride…”
Ah …………………………….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0
givememyfairshare
April 30th, 2012
10:42 pm
I’m very happy Obama gave the order. I do believe anyone in office would have given the green light with what they knew at the time.
Get Real
April 30th, 2012
10:44 pm
That is not what he said JamVet, he said that even Carter would have given the green light….get it straight
Regarding Obama bragging about it, have you not seen the commercial with Tom Hanks narration with overlays by Clinton…making that a campaign issue and democrats suggesting Romney would not have done the same thing is a farce.
BTW, who’s is squirming, I gave Obama credit and stand by it. Please disengage your head from your south forty..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
10:45 pm
Soothsayer @ 10:39
Funny but the troops were out before 1972 …………. not 1975 …………….
)
Jay
April 30th, 2012
10:45 pm
Oh brother, would that be “William Pierce” of “The Turner Diaries,” soft porn for the inconsequential couch-potato militia set?
real john
April 30th, 2012
10:46 pm
Well I know one thing for sure had it been up to the libs we would have been sitting around campfires singing “We are the World” and talking to our enemies (and Sadam and Osama) would probably be alive.
They are dead because Bush had the guts to go to war and our brave soldiers and intelligence agencies spent thousands up thousands of hours researching, gaining informants, and O, they had a little luck too.
We got lucky with Bin Laden..plain and simple. We had a couple of occasions were we apparently just missed killing him. I surely hope that any U.S. President with pretty decent intel would go after the biggest terrorist in the world. I’m glad Obama did; but its a stretch to say Romney would not have.
Obama has many things that he has said in the past…didn’t he make a remark about the Repubs mortgaging our children’s futures with these deficits. Meanwhile, Obama’s spending makes W look like Ebenezer Scrooge in comparison
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:51 pm
It is to me, beyond amazing that the most liberal man in the history of the universe is kicking neocon ass in the national security arena.
No wonder you swiftboating fake conservatives are fit to be tied.
The one area of policy that you thought you could hold onto, and poof! Gone in no time flat.
The Uppity Muslim Socialist Marxist without a Birth Certificate surges into Afghanistan, assists in a hugely successful NATO mission in Libya, gives the successful kill order for the most hated man on the planet (other than himself to Republicans! LOL!) and keeps you ingrates safe for over three years.
Salute him, losers.
He’s going to be the Commander in Chief until January 2017…
getalife
April 30th, 2012
10:52 pm
“I think getalife is Jay.”
No, I am not Jay.
Y’all had a bad day but there is always tomorrow.
TGT
April 30th, 2012
10:53 pm
Only the “truly desperate” would use the phrase “lamest bit of troll bait” to describe information that they simply can’t discredit. Besides your lefty pal Arianna Huffington doesn’t seem to think it was “troll bait.”
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
10:55 pm
getalife is not gay!
What’s that? Oh! getalife is not Jay! OK!
Jay
April 30th, 2012
10:55 pm
Arianna Huffington was a right-winger when she thought it would gain her power and influence, and a left-winger when she calculated her odds otherwise. If you want to cite her as an authority on something, please feel free to do so.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
April 30th, 2012
10:55 pm
Besides your lefty pal Arianna Huffington doesn’t seem to think it was “troll bait.”
Whistling past the graveyard.
getalife
April 30th, 2012
10:56 pm
“He’s going to be the Commander in Chief until January 2017…”
He deserves it.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
10:58 pm
And the swiftboating wannabes are reduced to agreeing with that Communist traitor Arianna Huffington.
Liberals skewering the campfire singing, cut and run chickenhawks at their own game.
Man, these are some weirdass times!
Soothsayer
April 30th, 2012
10:59 pm
Well, here’s one you’ll have a hard time sittin’ still to.
Jay
April 30th, 2012
11:01 pm
And TGT, there is no “information” in that story. You believe that US Seals went to a British newspaper to tell these stories?
For example, says one “former SEAL” quoted in the story:
“‘In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call. He can say he did and the people who really know what happened are inside the Pentagon, are in the military and the military isn’t allowed to speak out against the commander- in-chief so his secret is safe.”
Right. So this “former SEAL” somehow has this information that “Obama was not the man who made the call”? Oh really now. So who made the call if not the commander in chief? Who overruled him? With conspiracy theories that weak and unsupported, you guys ought to get together with Sooth and figure out who really brought down the Twin Towers.
Seriously, if bogus quotes like that don’t tell you the story is a joke …
Steve
April 30th, 2012
11:02 pm
The peace loving community organizer is such a badars…
Jay…you are a boob and have no journalistic integrity…I am hoping that is the weed talking.
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:05 pm
“So who made the call if not the commander in chief? Who overruled him?”
Rambo, silly.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:08 pm
All I know is “hardcore” Biden wimped out. We know that. Good thing he will never be Commander in Chief.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:09 pm
Towncrier:
No ………….. I think it was that girl in the back of the photo in the Situation Room ………. you know, the one without security clearance.
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:12 pm
Is the first annual celebration of killing a villain on record? Is there a “We got Saddam” day or a “We got Hitler” day?
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:16 pm
I guess what surprised me most about the operation is that Obama was going for the kill and not the capture. That kind of is contradictory to his stance on affording Constitutional legal rights “rights” to non-American terrorists.
Don't Forget
April 30th, 2012
11:16 pm
We are paying Pakistan billions not to reveal the fact that a peanut butter and banana sandwich was found on the downed helicopter……..
Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
11:16 pm
Rambobama. He’s one baaaaaaad dude.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:17 pm
Thulsa:
He looked like Alfred E. Neuman in that photo.
Oscar
April 30th, 2012
11:18 pm
The reason we got Bin Laden is that Obama notified his staff that getting him was the number one priority and he put the resources behind the search. W. had written him off and not made it a priority,, and Romeny said he would not have spent the resouces looking for him that Obama did. Romney’s own words.
Obama made finging him the goal and kept the pressure on until they found him and got him.
Steve
April 30th, 2012
11:19 pm
Thanks.
Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
11:19 pm
“With conspiracy theories that weak and unsupported, you guys ought to get together with Sooth and figure out who really brought down the Twin Towers”
Come on Jay. We all know W was behind it. Sooth said so.
Jay
April 30th, 2012
11:23 pm
Steve, your posts were being blocked because your IP address was similar to that of someone who had been banned. That’s been adjusted.
I see that Erwin and Jack had also fallen accidentally into that category. That too is now fixed.
Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
11:24 pm
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:12 pm
“Is the first annual celebration of killing a villain on record? Is there a “We got Saddam” day or a “We got Hitler” day?”
Interesting point. I know of no other spike the football celebratory days for getting a villain. Then again we do have the cult of personality we have to keep developing for the O man so it only makes sense to have a celebrate O getting someone day whenever possible.
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:24 pm
“The reason we got Bin Laden is that Obama notified his staff that getting him was the number one priority and he put the resources behind the search. W. had written him off and not made it a priority”
Thanks for the intel…mind pointing out just where you were sitting in the situation room?
Rockwell
April 30th, 2012
11:24 pm
Jay is really, really, really fighting the story in the UK news about SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign
Must be some truth to it then.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
11:25 pm
To Oscar’s point, the poor corporal is reduced to whining because some some skinny, anti-American, Muslim, Socialist, Community Organizer had to finish the job that his beloved Boy Blunder couldn’t.
And Flip as the CiC?!
All he needs is a helmet a few sizes too big and he can be the next Bay State version of Michael Dukakis…
Jay
April 30th, 2012
11:25 pm
“Jay is really, really, really fighting the story in the UK news about SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign
Must be some truth to it then.
Gotta love that logic….
Paul
April 30th, 2012
11:29 pm
I finally had a question answered.
People who cite lame, laughable items as truth because it fits their predilections, who do so at night,
aren’t necessarily blitzed.
But the thought they believe that stuff while sober is enough to make the rest of the blogosphere start drinking.
‘night, all -
Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
11:29 pm
Got Faux news on in the background. They are talking about the administration stalling on the Corzine investigation and on Eric Holder still stalling and refusing to identify after a year of Congress asking who authorized and signed off on a major operation like fast and furious. Hard to believe the man can hold out for a year and just thumb his nose at the American people and at Congress like that. Is his dept so incredibly incompetent that they really don’t know who signed off on f and f or is Holder just a dishonest and lying bureaucrat?
Rockwell
April 30th, 2012
11:29 pm
Jay,
Do you know for a fact that the story is bogus, or is that just your opinion?
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
11:32 pm
What maroons.
If I didn’t know better, I would think that the Daily Mail was owned by Rupert Murdoch, which would at least partially explain why supposedly educated people can read obvious nonsense like that story and be duped.
But then, I guess the Bushbots do have along history of doing that very thing, huh?.
RB from Gwinnett
April 30th, 2012
11:34 pm
Does anybody else find it funny as hell we’re celebrating the decision of a Nobel Peace Prize winner to authorize a mission to kill an enemy inside an allies borders without telling them?
Do you think maybe he should send the award back?
Rockwell
April 30th, 2012
11:35 pm
Jam,
Are you trying to say macaroons, which is kind of like a cookie, or morons, which aptly describes Jay’s fan club here?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:37 pm
JamVet:
Don’t you remember what he said about all that “killing stuff” when he was running ?
Rockwell
April 30th, 2012
11:37 pm
RB,
He doesn’t need to send it back. The infomercial said if you are 100% not satisfied with your Nobel peace prize, you can keep it as a gift
Thulsa Doom
April 30th, 2012
11:39 pm
RB from Gwinnett,
The Nobel peace prize committee looks more laughable day by day don’t it. I bet they will never give someone an undeserved award again based on ahem “potential” as they said. And who says those socialist Norwegians aint biased?
Rockwell
April 30th, 2012
11:40 pm
What I find funny is that they can find some write up in an obscure article they find on Media Matters, and say there is absolutely no bias reporting, and refer to it as if it came from the Bible. But, if it doesn’t fit their narrative, it is immediately struck down as BS.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:40 pm
JamVet:
“In a 2007 interview with The Boston Globe, then Senator Obama declared:
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent. History has shown us time and again, however, that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the Legislative branch. It is always preferable to have the informed consent of Congress prior to any military action.”
P.S. Check out all of these “flip-flops” at your leisure:
http://www.therightsphere.com/2012/04/president-flip-flop-barack-obamas-broken-promises-policy-reversals-and-continuous-flip-flops/
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:42 pm
“…you swiftboating fake conservatives…”
“…that Communist traitor Arianna Huffington…”
“…supposedly educated people …”
Hey JamVet – just curious…would you classify yourself as a “hater”? I have never asked you that question, but you strike me as being venomous most of the time (and not just when someone gets your goat).
RB from Gwinnett
April 30th, 2012
11:42 pm
This whole thread is just stupid. More of Bookman’s propping up the empty suit crap. He knows darn well AmVet and getaclue are the only 2 people on the planet who wouldn’t have authorized that mission. The deeper story is what kind of idiot tells your allies you’d execute missions inside their territory without notifying them up front. Not exactly the kind of talk that makes your allies seat you at the big kids table at Christmas is it?
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
11:42 pm
How about a nice big slice of yellow cake, Rockwell?
You militarily inept rube-a-cons do make me laugh.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:43 pm
Where’s Springfield when we need them ………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:43 pm
““In a 2007 interview with The Boston Globe, then Senator Obama declared…”
Thanks for that balancing quotation, Scout. Interesting.
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
11:44 pm
RB, you never-served weenie, quit peeing in your camouflage colored depends and salute the CiC for killing the second most hated man in the Republican world. (BHO being the first!)
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:45 pm
Towncrier:
Check out all of the other flip-flops. It’s amazing but the mainstream media gives him a pass.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:45 pm
JamVet:
How about that 11:40 huh ?
JamVet
April 30th, 2012
11:47 pm
Rockwell you are still trying to defend that idiotic English trash as credible?
Jeez, Louise…
Ahem
April 30th, 2012
11:48 pm
Are you really the fool you appear to be, or are you just acting a fool?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
April 30th, 2012
11:48 pm
JamVet is thinking ………………
RB from Gwinnett
April 30th, 2012
11:51 pm
Jammie, you’re a would-be communist who would rather be red than dead, dude. Spare us the “I served” crap. We all see through you veil. My guess is you weren’t very popular with your squad mates, were you? Which one of them had to carry your weapon for you?
And I have already given Obama props for making the call, but lets be honest, it wasn’t that difficult of a call was it? The biggest decision he made that day was whether or not to notify the Paki’s. The rest of it could have been decided by a girl scout troop.
Towncrier
April 30th, 2012
11:51 pm
“Check out all of the other flip-flops. It’s amazing but the mainstream media gives him a pass.”
Every politician has probably flip-flopped a number of times. To me, that’s the shame of either a) citing past statements to prove he has integrity or b) show that he has not. That is why I tend to dislike columns like this one because it seems more like propaganda than anything else – something we need a lot less of in these troubled times.
Ahem
April 30th, 2012
11:52 pm
The prospect of dumba$$ not getting re-elected is causing DBS (desperate blogger syndrome). The worst president in 50 years…? I think it has been clearly demonstrated that Hopeless Change is the winner.
The Thin Guy
April 30th, 2012
11:56 pm
I give Zippy full credit for killing that fly. Got to admit it. That Kenyan has got some lizard in him. As for the Muslim on Muslim whack job, it just illustrates he’ll do anything for votes. For him to claim that he is solely responsible for the hit on ØSammy is like a rooster crowing and taking credit for the sun coming up. Joan Baez or The Pope would have ordered the hit. What is the slogan going to be for four more years of Hoax and Chains? The problem with killing ØSammy is he can only be killed once. How about: Vote for Me or I’ll Eat Your Dog.
Rockwell
April 30th, 2012
11:57 pm
Oh now, come on, JamVet plays World of Warcraft and thinks he served. Kind of like Obama getting that peace medal thing for being a community organizer.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 1st, 2012
12:00 am
Towncrier:
You are one of the few thinking debaters on here. Stay with it.
I guess JamVet caved and went to bed.
TAPS !
RB from Gwinnett
May 1st, 2012
12:04 am
0311, towncrier, thin guy,
You guys know if we all decided to stop posting on Jay’s blog, it would dry up and go away being little more than a liberal CJ every day.
j$
May 1st, 2012
12:07 am
Props to RB
You kill’em everytime,
LOL
Cmdr Oligovsky
May 1st, 2012
12:08 am
Obama reports to me. And I report to Putin.
So technically Vlad killed OBL. Not Obama.
j$
May 1st, 2012
12:10 am
?
Honestly.
You think if the strike on Osama missed, you would ever hear about it?
no. and it is goot.
Cmdr Oligovsky
May 1st, 2012
12:12 am
Thin guy. You must live in the asylum down the street. That was crazier than my gig.
Or have you been drinking?
Rockwell
May 1st, 2012
12:14 am
Looks like the libs version of the Tea Party has struck again. Such a peaceful organization.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/day-protest-banks-white-powder-envelopes/story?id=16248124#.T59jHOhSR8G
Face it dems, you own that group.
j$
May 1st, 2012
12:17 am
Oli, everyone is in of a need a 15 yr old scotch.
getalife
May 1st, 2012
12:22 am
rb,
I was in a celebratory mood that night.
I would love to see the video.
Double tapped.
Cmdr Oligovsky
May 1st, 2012
12:22 am
J$
I prefer vodka, thank you.
Cmdr Oligovsky
May 1st, 2012
12:23 am
I think we kept thin guy in Guantanamo, I mean the gulag, too long. Sorry thin guy. Obama sends his regrets too. Not really.
Cmdr Oligovsky
May 1st, 2012
12:24 am
The fun begins in a few hours. Put your May Day party hats on!
Courtney
May 1st, 2012
12:56 am
This seems like the biggest non-story of all time. No meat here. Move on.
doesntmatter
May 1st, 2012
3:26 am
I Just can’t trust a Mormon……
Tundra Dude
May 1st, 2012
4:34 am
You also can’t argue that Romney would have balked at sending troops into Pakistan to kill the terrorist leader. Maybe he would have.
——————-
Maybe he would have balked, awaiting proof that Osama was a “terrorist leader”. After all, he was a loyal CIA asset since 1979. (see Zbigniew Brzezinski)
http://bit.ly/ju0oTT
Osama died in 2001: MSNBC hit piece unwittingly reveals corroboration for Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik’s assertion
Tundra Dude
May 1st, 2012
4:39 am
The Fog of War……or..
http://bit.ly/J9rc5l
The Fog of Fog
By Michelle Malkin
Jack
May 1st, 2012
5:39 am
This Bookman piece is basically about disturbing electrons. No other purpose served.
marko
May 1st, 2012
5:50 am
If we’re to believe anything Mitt says, It would be safe to assume that had he been elected president , GM would be dead and Osama Bin Laden would still be alive. It’s good thing for Romney that He clearly doesn’t mean anything he says. Otherwise he might be held accountable.
Mitt likes to tell tell his adoring minions that if they hate success, they should Vote for Obama. Got to admit that one hurts. After all as the black son of a poor single mother, Obama clearly had everything handed to him on a silver platter. What would a loser like Obama possibly know about becoming successful? It’s not like he ever had to deal with the stigma of being born the son of a millionaire governor. Mitt’s the living embodiment of the American dream. After all only in America could the impoverished son of a millionaire politician grow up to become the multi-millionaire president of the United States. Mission accomplished.
Whahema
May 1st, 2012
6:12 am
Obama has no class. He did not get Bin Laden. Navy seals did. Obama is claiming creditnfor their courage and using their blood as political ammunition. He is so arrogant! Such a narccist,
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
6:16 am
Whahema
May 1st, 2012
6:12 am
I’ll say it again. President Obama gave the order to go get OBL. That was something that President Bush couldn’t or wouldn’t do. President Obama was the one and you are sadly deluded.
…Other than that. Good morning to all y’all…
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
6:32 am
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/04/30/political-pictures-tell-me-more/
MiltonMan
May 1st, 2012
6:36 am
The on-going quagmire know as liberal logic: “Let’s make sure that we only give the Obama administration credit for things he says he will do and gets it done and not hold him accountable for things he says he will do but does not get done.”
“I will cut the deficit in half.”
“I will close Gitmo.”
The stimulus will keep unemployment below 8%.
“Shovel Ready”
etc.
etc.
Mitch
May 1st, 2012
6:41 am
You assume “maybe”, but it amounts to you endorsing political trash.
MiltonMan
May 1st, 2012
6:46 am
“After all as the black son of a poor single mother,…”
Good grief the libs know very, very little about their man.
In his autobiography, Obama himself describes growing up in a middle-class environment & he attended private school.
MiltonMan
May 1st, 2012
6:48 am
I guess Jay never got the memo back in 2009 about the AJC would no longer endorse political candidates.
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
6:55 am
“I will cut the deficit in half.”
“I will close Gitmo.”
The stimulus will keep unemployment below 8%.
“Shovel Ready”
All blocked by House majority Republicans or Senate minority republicans via filibuster…
Republicans are willing to keep the American worker hurting in order to try to prevent President Obama from re-election….
ken
May 1st, 2012
7:10 am
” FOWARD”, looks like a duck………………
Illegal Alien
May 1st, 2012
7:16 am
Jay,
You’re a great columnist. No matter what you post, you ALWAYS get several hundred folks to chime in.
Tha AJC did good when they got you.
MiltonMan
May 1st, 2012
7:17 am
“”I will cut the deficit in half.”
“I will close Gitmo.”
The stimulus will keep unemployment below 8%.
“Shovel Ready”
All blocked by House majority Republicans or Senate minority republicans via filibuster…
Republicans are willing to keep the American worker hurting in order to try to prevent President Obama from re-election….”
The lib fantasy world working overtime this AM.
From teh LA Times:
May 19, 2010: The House Armed Services Committee, controlled by members of….
…the president’s own Democratic party, absolutely prohibits any opening of a Guantanamo detention replacement facility within these United States. To underline its ban, the powerful committee erupts in an unusual display of bipartisanship: The prohibition vote is unanimous.
SHFWRH
May 1st, 2012
7:21 am
josef
April 30th, 2012
4:53 pm
MUSLIMS ARE HAWKISH
Normal Free, Plain and Simple
May 1st, 2012
7:23 am
Only one Milton?
Jacksmum
May 1st, 2012
7:27 am
If anyone is considering his/her vote based on hypothetical musings about what a candidate may have done in the same circumstances as the sitting President, that someone is an idiot. Both candidate and sitting President have records. Look at them. Not at the media spin around them, no offense Jay, but the actual records.