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THE NOTE
By Michael
Falcone
@michaelpfalcone
FLASHBACK: Obama Campaign Accused Clinton Of Using Bin Laden To Score Political PointsIn 2008
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The Obama campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, accused the Clinton team of playing the politics of fearjust like George W. Bush. Burton, now the head of the Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA, said at the time: When Senator Clinton voted with President Bush to authorize the war in Iraq, she made a tragically bad decision that diverted our military from the terrorists who attacked us, and allowed Osama bin Laden to escape and regenerate his terrorist network. Its ironic that she would borrow the Presidents tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points. We already have a President who plays the politics of fear, and we dont need another. Asbackup,theObamacampaignalsocirculateda2004quotefromformer President Bill Clinton, saying: Now one of Clintons Laws of Politics is this: If one candidates trying to scare you and the other ones trying to get you to think; if one candidates appealing to your fears and the other ones appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope. Thats the best. Heres the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign ad featuring an image of Osama bin Laden:
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Today, Time magazine got hold of a memo written by then-CIA head Leon Panetta after he received orders from Barack Obamas team to greenlight the bin Laden mission. the memo doesnt show a gutsy call. It doesnt show a president willing to take the blame for a mission gone wrong. It shows a CYA maneuver by the White House. The memo puts all control in the hands of Admiral McRaven the timing, operational decision making and control are all up to McRaven. So the notion that Obama and his team were walking through every stage of the operation is incorrect. The hero here was McRaven, not Obama. And had the mission gone wrong, McRaven surely would have been thrown under the bus. The memo is crystal clear on that point. It says that the decision has been made based solely on the risk profile presented to the President.If any other risks no matter how minute arose, they were to be brought back to the President for his consideration.This is ludicrous. It is wiggle room. It was Obamas way of carving out space for himself in case the mission went bad. If it did, hed say that there were additional risks of which he hadnt been informed; hed been kept in the dark by his military leaders. Obama made the right call to give the green light to the mission. But he did it in a way that he could shift the blame if things went wrong. Typical Obama. And typical of him to claim full credit for it, when he didnt do anything but give a vague nod, while putting his top military officials at risk of taking the hit in case of a bad turn.
What a STUPID ARTICLE by ABC! This election is about MITT ROMNEYS lack of foreign policy experience and judgment based on HIS OWN STATEMENTS! Romney reminds us of GEORGE BUSH on foreign policy. Bush famously said in 2002 that getting Bin Laden was not importantand Romneys first get permission from Pakistancomment seems to echo that sentiment, as someonein Pakistan government probably would have alerted Bin Laden had they known and Bin Laden would have moved again. Bush/Cheney/Romney WANTED to keep Bin Laden out there to scare Americans because then it would be easier to justify spending more money on defense. Romneys tough-guy Iran war talk is also reminiscent of Bush and led to the DUMB WAR in Iraq in which no WMD were found after spending nearly a trillion dollars and the loss of 5,000 Americans. Only 17% of Americans think going to war with Iran is a good idea, so the more we learn about Romneys SECRET WAR PLANS, the less appealing he is as a candidate. Romney will not be able to get away with the juvenile stunt he pulled in the GOP primary of responding to SERIOUS foreign policy questions with comments about the US economy, as it will be clear to most voters that he simply does not have a clue or HAS SECRET WAR PLANS that he does not want to share with the American people.
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Lizzie, you need to quit reading Breitbart.com. Their narratives sound stupid outside the right-wing echo chamber. Your whole comment is just a cut and paste job from Ben Shapiros article. Heres an ideai; try formulating your own thoughts. I doubt what youll come up with is any dumber than the article youre stealing from.
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Obama Campaign Accused Clinton Of Using Bin Laden To Score Political PointsIn2008.How many 2008 campaign promises has he actually kept (those that he has not are just too numerous to think about!)
In 5 years this guy will be bragging about the time that I killed bin Laden with my bare hands.
Nice to see once again that no one actually addresses the validity of the article at all. As usual, ones ideology and/or partisan leanings dictate whether a story is even considered at all. Also, I would like to comment to Hsquared that the only echo chamber he/she would know about is the one between his ears.
If others are talking about their accomplishments and use it for political leverage it distracts from the Majesty of Obama himself and he doesnt like it at all. He doesnt like his attention taken from him. Hes the Obama and everyone must have no other idol above him.
Things arent looking to good for Barry. Hes having to take credit all over again a year later for a decision that he didnt even make. Kudos to McRaven though, people like him are protecting our country, not a President like Obama who is driving us further into debt.
His campaign ad is not for us the knowledgeable Republicans. The ad for the stupid Liberals, the welfare recipients who care only about the monthly welfare check, the greedy public school teachers who are busy brain-washing the next generation to vote DemoRat, and the greedy public employees who are finding all means to suck the money from taxpayers.
So thats all Obamas got? Bashing Romney on what he may have or may not have done? Oh boy, is Obama in for a treat when it gets one on one the final 5 or so months. Amazing how Obama tells the nation how hes so aware of the nations debt as he spends about $250,000 of the tax payers money for AF1to get him to a town so he can campaign by preaching what Romney may or may not do. When it gets mano e mano, Obama is going to get a quick education.
It seems President Obama will have a lot of explaining to do this November as Im certain many WOMEN VOTERS have grave concerns about his policies . His constant verbal battering of Israel (the only true safe haven for women in the middle east) is well documented, and even Hillary called him out on his anti-Israel Reverend Wright in 2008. Yet he effusively praises the Muslim Brotherhood, a group known for sexual mutilation of teenage girls in Egypt. And he is the first President in American history to negotiate with and praise the Taliban a group that treats women like dogs and publicly executes them for reading books, going to school, wearing makeup, and working jobs. Mr. Barack better
explain to the WOMEN VOTERS OF AMERICA why he supports the Muslim Brotherhoods female mutilation and honor killings before he attacks Mr. Romney on ANY subject.
What do you expect? Obama taught Alinsky doctrine as a professor and Hilarys disertation was on Alinksy. If you dont know who Alinsky is, then you better find out. Find out whats coming this election cycle and be ready to know what to expect from the far left liberaland how to respond. Saul Alinsky. I know it sounds crazy but read up on him (take note about what he says about the middle class) and make your own conclusion then spread the word. Dont be intimidated by the left and vote come November!!!
Why path would Mitt Romney have taken?the clip asks. ???? Is that the script of the ad or a typo by ABC? Regardless, Odrama is only just getting started. As November nears hes going to get more desperate and I predict there will be Dems hoping for re-election beginning to distance themselves from him. Also, I laud Jon Lovitzs profane candor I couldnt have said it better. I like to think Jon broke the seal lets see if Odrama starts to become the target of late night hosts. I think Leno has already started down that path.
Reggie, Well, nobody has asked Obama about the number of Muslim Brotherhood members that are involved in his administration inside our government, so technically he hasnt lied about that yet. A journalist would have to present him the opportunity to lie first, but he is their leader and they are his propagandists, so that will not happen. Obama has already told the media how to report about him and his agenda. That came out last week? Two weeks ago? Of course, not reported by the party controlled media, but the independent media.
The 9/11 Commission Report indicated that Bill Clinton passed on 3 chances to get OBL. The military handed OBL to Obama on a silver platter. Oblamer was simply along for the ride when the Seals took OBL out.
Lets face it. Killing Bin Laden might feel good but, at the end of the day, its merely symbolic. Killing Bin Laden certainly hasnt rid the world of Al Queada. Cut off the head, and a new head emerges. Its that simple but, sure, Ill give the President credit for giving the go ahead and do it.
So is Obama the Noble Peace Prize recipient or the terrorist killing machine who will keep America safe from evil? I would say neither what he is is a figment of his and his reelection campaigns imagination for those weak minded enough to believe whatever the media presents to them.
Clearly President Obama is so desperate he will do and say anything to retain his lavish lifestyle. Nothing he says matters, as he can take all sides of an issue depending on what is popular at the moment. He is a con-man and a poser. Pathetic really, but kind of a sign of our modern society. Mitt was right about bin Laden not being worth spending billions to track down, and the mental midgets that cannot understand his statements are the same dimwits who elected the buffoon who picked Biden as his running mate. I mean cmon, Biden?
Obama is a total disaster and a horrible excuse for a man. A Navy Admiral and Navy Seals got Bin Laden, using methods approved and developed under the Bush administration. Obama was on vacation at the time. Obamas shameless and hypocritical attempt to exploit this is revolting.
Bush hired the guy who found Bin Laden, but this is all Obama has. The economy sucks.
Barack Obama would step on his friends or political enemies so he could gain POWER
It would be laughable if it were not so pathetic that Bill Clinton is the spokesperson on this hit piece. Remember Bill was the President who stalled and lost the opportunity in 1998to launch a direct strike on Osama bin Laden at a confirmed location. He instead played golf and ignored the situation. And now, Obamas feckless administration fiddles away while the economy tanks, world leaders laugh, and our homeland is steered toward the abyss of fiscal ruin.
Obama is the biggest phony, the biggest hypocrite, the most disingenuous politician to ever rise to the presidency. Hes all politics, all the time. He doesnt mean most of what he says, while contradicting himself from week-to-week spewing a string of half-truths and out-right lies. I cant wait to see the flood of campaign commercials starring Obama himself, contradicting him as a way of life. Its time to send Obama home. We need a POTUS, focused on alleviating our nations enormous problems, not creating a rash of new ones, which is precisely what this agitator-in-chief is all about.
What a STUPID ARTICLE by ABC! This election is about MITT ROMNEYS lack of foreign policy experience and judgment based on HIS OWN STATEMENTS! Romney reminds us of GEORGE BUSH on foreign policy. ========= What a ridiculous comment, Metteyya. Obama ran as a candidate OPPOSED to the Bush Doctrine, but hes continued with the Bush Doctrine on steriods (remember Libya? and without congressional approval in violation of the war powers act!!!). And now hes running on the Bush Doctrine. ABC is showing some guts reporting Obamas hypocrisy on this issue. And you are showing your willful blindness, which make you a loyal Obamabot. Fortunately, more and more people are waking up from their slumber each day. This attack by Obama on Romney will not work. Why? On its face, its RIDICULOUS.
Why path would Mitt Romney have taken?the clip asks. Does anyone proofread these articles?????
It appals me the political positions Obama takes. He will only make decisions that he thinks gives him political benefits, How many people has he thrown under the bus to his advantage? He has given BILLIONS to Islamists radicals. ( A federal crime) If you dont want to vote for Romney you WILL get Obama/Biden for four more years.
Obama is really in big trouble this time around if you see all these many negative comments on a left wing media outlet. I guess people have started to see Obama for what he really is. I never thought I would see a worse president than Bush but Obama has proved me wrong. Eight years ago I couldnt believe Bush was going to be reelected but he was. Now I cant believe Obama will be reelected and at this point I hope he wont. Thanks to Obama the US is more divided than ever. Poor against rich, blacks against whites, women against women, men against men, etc, etc and it won;t get any better if he is reelected. Last time I did not vote. McCain never convinced me and I did not fall for the empty promise of Hope and Change coming from a guy with absolutely no experience whatsoever but this time Ill vote and one thing is for sure, it wont be for Obama.
Whats not being said is that OBL had hepatitis C, diabetes, and kidney failure long before 9/11. Renal dialysis, and incidentally, dialysis machines require electricity, clean water, and a sterile setting would have been impossible to provide for 10+ years to someone running from cave to cave. Seal Team 6 shot somebody in Pakistan, but it wasnt OBL.
Just exactly the type of statement that I would expect coming from one of the greatest lying hypocrites in American history.
Obama is an idiot. He will say or promise anything to get reelected. I dont care about hid birth certificate but what about all the other secrets. Why did he surrender his law license, who paid his way through college, what about his thesis. Grow some balls and tell the American people the truth. Otherwise he needs to be treated as a rabid dog and him and everyone that he has touched should be taken behind the barn and put down whether humanely or not he has to go. ANYBODY BUT OBAMA
President Obama contradicts something he advanced as candidate Obama? This is the first time, right?
The President has every right to refer to Bin Laden. He found him and got him. George Bush couldnt even find Pakistanon a map. I doubt if Romney could either.
Well, Obama learned his lessons wellcriticise others then hypocritically take up their positions when it becomes convenient. One commenter said that this elections was about Romneys lack of foreign policy experience, and that is correct, Romney has little foreign policy experience, he is alomost as unqualified in that area as Obama was when he took office, But Obama is the least qualified president we ahve ever had and he still is totally unqualified for the job, even after holding the position for three years.
News Flash:Osama Bin Laden die in late 2001, Who did they Kill! for Real!
Obama is a man of many, many faces. So many faces he has more Chins than a Chinese telephone book. Obama calls for Hope & Change, tells us he is a uniter, not a divider, says he is not for a Red or Blue America but the Unites States of AmericaWRONGthe guy revealed who he is with his Bitter Clingers comment, his tax and spread the wealth around BS, his Cap Gains Tax fairnessBS, followed by 4-years of antagonism, deceit and division. Obama is a well trained Alinsky Marxist that was never vetted by the Journ-O-lists because he is of their kindwhich includes this network. Obama is a Black Panther member, a Nation Of Islam member, a Wright infected lunatic that has been polished to present his poison without pulling a Sharpton, Jackson, Wright or Farrakhan. The Journ-O-lists must be proud.
Politics. The profession of self-promotion and hypocrisy. Obama has it down pat.
this man should talk about things that he has done that will ceate a job or 2 he should stop drelling on the only thing he did that screw the country more and any narcissistic personality disorder person could have made the decission on bin laden
THIS ELECTION WILL BE ABOUT THE ECONOMY.something Obobo doesnt want to talk aboutOh, can run and he can hide but remember the economy is front and center and every clueless mistake he made will be re-inforced a million times overHis clueless approach is destroying individualism, motivation and is destructive and can be seen in virtually every thing he tries to mandate. Unfortunate he cant govern by consensus but then again hes always been a divider socially and economically.
Republicans are more afraid of THIS POINT than all others combined . Democrats must continue to hammer home it was Obamas brave decisiveness and bold action that brought Americas greatest enemy to justice. President Bush and Dick Cheney said that it was irresponsible to concentrate on the whereabouts of one manmeaning Osama Bin Laden. Thank God President Obama wasnt of that mindset. President Obama is a true American hero and deserves a second term.
The libs want to give credit to the dispatcher at 911. And not to the Fire men. Its laughable. Obummer did His usual, when faced with an issue. HE VOTED PRESENT!
This election in 2012, is all about Barrack Obama! When an incumbent is running for re-election, its ALWAYS about the incumbents record of the preceding 4 years. To say its about anything else is ludicrous. For those who support Obama in his bid to govern the U.S. for the next 4 years, it is only fair to point how he has governed in the past. They better be ready to defend keeping Gitmo open. They have to defend the practice of making back-room deals out of the public eye, when Obama ran on having the most transparent administration ever. They must answer to and defend a leader who used the U.N. to overthrow governments on grounds of humanitarian issues, only to end up with a government far worse than the one it replaced or in Libyas case, militant-sectarian strongholds where there was once a central government( i realize Im talking about Quaddahfi, but he was a recognized State leader). In Libya, Obama used NATO to do his bidding and as a result millions of very dangerous weapons went missing, into the hands of who knows who! To continue and list the failures of Obamas foreign policy would take hours if not days, but those of you who support him HAVE TO DEFEND HIM!
e President has every right to refer to Bin Laden. He found him and got him. George Bush couldnt even find Pakistanon a map. I doubt if Romney could either Yep, Obama got Bin Laden all by himself. I bet he killed him with his bare hands too. I bet Bush knows the difference between Memorial and Veterans Day. I bet Bush knows how many states in America. I bet Bush wouldnt call a Navy Corpsman, Navy Corpse-man! I could go on for hours. BTW, Obama rides a girls bike.
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