Trump, an avid birther, spent the last month being an obnoxious loudmouth complaining that Obama was not an American. He went on to claim that he was 'thinking' about running for President. For a while, he was all over the place on the news. He continued his line about how Obama was not an American and that he should release his birth certificate.
Obama already had released his birth certificate, he released a certificate of live birth, which serves as prima facie evidence in any court of law as proof of birth. But of course, Trump, being an idiot, didn't let that stop him. He went on to claim the original long form birth certificate was missing.
Then suddenly, Obama had a short press conference where he produced his birth certificate.
Trump claimed it was a victory for him, that he made Obama produce his birth certificate, but I think the rest of the world saw what really happened: Trump made himself look like a fool. Then he made things worse for himself and in a press conference after Obama released his BC, Trump was asked about the so-called investigators who claimed Obama's BC was missing. Trump did not answer the question, he merely continued the line that he was proud of himself.
Trump then got Trumped at the correspondents dinner. He sat there stonyface as the audience laughed at Obama's jokes about Trump. Again, the potential presidential candidate made himself look like a fool, a thin-skinned fool. If he can't take the heat of jokes that he should have expected, how can he take the heat of being president? It looked very bad for him.
Then Obama had his big night on May 1st. He came on the air and very calmly announced that Osama Bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, had been killed in a Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan.
So in one week, Obama ripped the carpet out from underneath one of the high ranking GOP hopefuls and killed Osama Bin Laden, devastating Al-Qaeda and bringing justice and vengeance to the 3000 victims who died in the 9-11 attacks and the thousands more who died in other terrorist attacks across the globe.
I'd say he's had a very good week.
However, to continue with the OBL raid, I've been quite irritated with some of the responses I've seen from both Left and Right.
Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has complained bitterly that the United States did not respect Pakistan's sovereignity when Obama sent the SEALs in. OBL was living in a freaking fortress in the middle of a military town called Abottabad, which is something like a two hour drive from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Now, you're going to sit here and claim that Osama's been hiding in the middle of a military-centric town, that close to the capital, for five years and you didn't know? It's very suspicious. Here's the deal, Musharraf, if you don't want the US to disrespect your sovereignity, don't harbor known terrorists. We didn't tell you? Oh well that might be because we didn't want the untrustworthy elements in your government to tip OBL off. The president said in his campaign trail in 2008, that we will go into Pakistan to kill OBL if we have to, and we did. Obama was justified to bring this murderer to justice, even if that meant ignoring folks who cannot be trusted to aid us.
I get really irritated when people start complaining that "we shot a poor, helpless unarmed man." Especially the Right, but the Left's doing this too (Noam Chomsky is like the Rush Limbaugh of the Left, but no one listens to him.) Seriously guys? Dressing Osama as a poor victim of homicide? Seriously? You know who else was unarmed?
The three thousand men and women who died on 9-11.
But more importantly, who's to say he was unarmed? There are so many rumors around, no one really knows the real story, except the SEALs and the President's council who watched the raid take place. Even if he was, many of the reports I've read say he resisted (and a few said he did not.) If that is the case, who's to say that he or the building he was in wasn't set up to explode? This is a man who would willingly blow himself up for the cause if he had to. If he resisted, the only appropriate response was to shoot him, or find out the hard way if he's wearing a bomb belt.
And why is there suddenly so much sympathy for OBL? Is it because Obama is the one who got him and not Bush? Well that's Bush's fault for giving up the chase and dismantling the team and apparatus in place to catch him. Oh and there's the whole bit about invading Iraq too. Bush gets no credit for this kill, just for that.
Osama Bin Laden was a mass murdering psychopath. The SEALs brought him to justice. Al-Qaeda is now devastated by the loss of a beloved leader and the US has gained a ton of intel that thwarted another plot to attack America's railways. Osama's death was a good thing, a victory for Americans and justice for the victims. Don't give that man sympathy in an attempt to make "the other team" look bad. Democrats and Republicans and Independents all should set aside their differences and unite behind this one victory.
We can go back to spitting in each others faces when the excitement over this event dies down.
"Nation, fear is just a state of mind, but then again, so is mad cow disease." Stephen Colbert
J Kuhl, Signing Off
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