Obama flagged for excessive celebration

[Henry Jefferson]

It's amazing how quickly President Barack Obama and the Democrats have stopped bragging about killing Osama bin Laden.

I guess a couple of attacks -- one deadly -- on American embassies and consulates by Islamist mobs and terrorists in Cairo, Benghazi and elsewhere will do that to you. Suddenly it is not so smart to go around pounding your chest, spiking the football, taunting your opponents and taking credit for the assassination of the al-Qaida leader.

Up to and through the Democratic Party Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Obama, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. John Kerry and other Democrats mocked the Republicans over the killing of Osama at his grimy compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by Navy SEALs in May 2011.

"General Motors is alive and Osama is dead," became a mantra for the president and the Democrats in an effort to bolster Obama's image as a commanding and forceful leader when it comes to fighting Islamist terrorists.

Obama practically did a victory dance on the one-year anniversary of the killing. His White House could not leak enough classified information about the raid in order to make him look good.

Bill Clinton, the former president who twice had the opportunity before 9/11 to take Osama out -- but did not -- made a campaign video touting Obama's decision to go after Osama, asking, "Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?" Bill Clinton's strong implication, as insulting as it was, was that Romney would have
choked at killing or capturing Osama, just the way Clinton did on at least two occasions when he was president.

Romney accused Obama of "politicizing" the Osama killing and he was right, even though Obama's militant Praetorian Guard (the liberal mainstream media) went after Romney for saying it, just as they went after him for criticizing the Obama administration's initial mealy-mouthed response to the gathering mobs in Cairo marching toward the U.S. Embassy.

Words have meanings, Obama likes to say. Well, the words about the killing of Osama have meanings for Muslims around the world. Millions of them look upon Osama bin Laden as a hero and a martyr. It is no stretch to point out that millions of them also felt they were being mocked and taunted by Obama and the Democrats over the killing of the mastermind behind the atrocity of the Twin Towers. Silence sometimes serves better than words.

It is no coincidence that when the Cairo rioters scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, they chanted, "We are all Osama."

Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, can talk all she wants about the deplorable anti-Muslim video -- which nobody saw, by the way -- as a cause for the attacks.

[Henry Jefferson]

But it has come increasingly clear that the video was merely cover for the attacks on the embassy in Cairo, the consulate in Benghazi, and everywhere else. More to the point was the revenge factor for the killing of Osama. Again it was no coincidence that both initial attacks took place on or around the anniversary of 9/11, when Democrats were pumping up their heroics in getting Osama during their party convention a week earlier.

"Osama bin Laden is dead," Obama crowed in his acceptance speech at the convention, something he has mentioned hundreds of times.

"We can now proudly say Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive," Vice President Joe Biden trumpeted in his convention speech.

"It took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give the order to finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago," taunted John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

And so it went in speech after speech. Osama bin Laden is dead and we killed him, and we're proud of it. In your face.

And recall Hillary Clinton's cackling remarks on the killing of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. "We came, we saw, he died," she said, barely able to contain her snicker. Memo to Hillary: If Gadhafi were still alive and running Libya, the attack on the U.S consulate would never have happened and U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other three Americans would still be alive.

After such talk, Islamist terrorists and thugs do not need any video to get them motivated. The words coming from the leaders of the United States were sufficient. The terrorists got the meaning of the words.

Do not look for any more obnoxious campaign talk from Democrats about the killing of Osama. The Islamist terrorists got the message.

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[imagine2011]

The Left wants to condemn Bush for not killing OBL, but it looks like he knew better than make a martyr out of him. Also having a knowledgable person, such as Cheney by his side, Bush listened to his staff, unlike Obama who only listens to the voices inside his head.