Obama plotted bin Laden raid while making NCAA picks
Remember the heat President Obama took for filling out NCAA tournament brackets?
I'm picking Kansas to win, bin Laden to lose.
Many pundits argued that he was devoting too much of his time to sports prognostication when he should be solving real problems, like disasters in Japan, the Libyan crisis, or even finding the world’s most infamous terrorist.
Well, it seems Obama is quite the multi-tasker: The same week he was mulling hoops, he was also plotting the May 2 raid on bin Laden’s pig-sty of a mansion.
Business Insider has a good summary, but it seems Obama held a week of top-secret planning meetings beginning March 14. He publicly revealed his tournament picks on ESPN March 15.
Navy SEALS are better at taking out mass murderers than the president is at picking winners. Obama didn’t pick any team that appeared in the Final Four, but the SEALS got their man without suffering a casualty.
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19 comments Add your comment
Brneagle
May 4th, 2011
5:37 pm
Mr. Obama has proven to be the ultmate multi-tasker. Its’ “ok” with me if he play golf and basketball the rest of his term and do nothing else.
lawrence
May 4th, 2011
6:09 pm
GEORGE MATHIS. YOU NEED TOO FIND A REAL JOB, IF THIS ALL YOU CAN REPORT ABOUT. I DONT CARE IF HE WAS BETTING, HAVING SEX OR RUNNING THE COUNTRY, AT THE SAME TIME. BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!!!!!!!! GEORGE GET A LIFE
mpw
May 4th, 2011
6:27 pm
Shows he can walk and chew gum at the same time. Hooray for him!
Rose
May 4th, 2011
9:51 pm
Ha ha ha—–this is a joke, right? I do not believe a word of this nonsense——
Machsta
May 4th, 2011
9:55 pm
That idiot did’nt “PLOT” anything, he is a community organizer not a military planner, he was advised and then said OKAY, look at that picture of the group watching the RAID go down, OBAMA looks out of place, like a kid sitting at the adult table at Thanksgiving.
Ben Dover
May 4th, 2011
11:18 pm
You neocons can’t stand it that OBL was taken out on President Obamas watch can you? You are a pathetic bunch of losers.
Ray
May 5th, 2011
1:26 am
I guess it’s working already. There putting up other stories like this stupid one to devert from the situation at hand. Until I see those pictures, I am not going to believe any part of this. Anyone who believes this latest load of DUNG out of Washington that was dumped on your doorstep a couple of days ago have got to be very naive. The Government LIES to US on a regular basis, why would anyone in there right mind believe them without proof. This story may have been CONCOCTED while Obama was picking his brackets. We all know ELECTION TIME is just right around the corner and wouldn’t this be a nice boost/headstart for Obama. NO OSAMA PICTURES = NO OBAMA VOTE
Bush
May 5th, 2011
3:38 am
Does anyone really believe he plotted anything?? It was more like one of his staff nudged him at 1am and was like “dude wake up, brush your hair you have to go to TV.. we just killed Osama!”… “Really?? I thought we hung him over a year ago??”
Judy
May 5th, 2011
5:35 am
Why are you publishing this story? It’s because you just can’t stand the fact that America’s first black president succeeded where George W. Bush failed. That really sticks in your craw, doesn’t it? Grow up. Barack Obama accomplished something his predecessors could not: he rid the world of Osama bin Laden, “Public Enemy Number One”. Get over it. Give Obama the credit he deserves, and stop engaging in junk journalism. Your racism is showing. You should be ashamed to write such trash.
Caleb
May 5th, 2011
6:11 am
W could not single task! Unless you count choking on pretzels while watching football on tv instead of getting Bin Ladden