I was watching TV Sunday evening and saw the very quick reaction of crowds of mostly young people to the news of Osama bin Laden's death on the various news networks. I also saw and heard the Obama attempt to get out in front of this apparently unexpected crowd. I suspect the delay in the Presidential obituary was because of the surprising and unexpected enthusiasm of the commoners in New York and Washington DC. My guess is that at least some of the demonstrators were celebrating our military success well before the President took responsibility and claimed the whole operation as distinctly his and only his—I wonder if he would have taken responsibility if the assassination had failed?
Those who would always make political hay when the sun of any civil or military disturbance shines were surprised on Tuesday when the President didn't apparently get much of a bump in his Presidential popularity polls after this extra-ordinary feat engineered entirely by Obama. Is it possible that only the Kool-Aid drinkers would think he had done something unusual and good for his political fortunes, while the rest of us were still thinking that it was about time the Seals were allowed to do their job, and about time someone in power gave some thought to our Main Street economy, to our rapidly rising debt, and how to protect our savings from a predatory government.
Will we have forgotten this feat by November 2012?
Just thinking about things.
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The average American has a memory the length of a sound bite on TV. It will over with in less than a week.
Thanks for the note Adrienne. The whole thing seems to me to be "curiouser and curiouser." The picture in the situation room—which room in the WH isn't a situation room?—shows a President who looks like he just stopped in for a beer on his way to the 10th teebox. Maybe that is a hint as to why there is so much hemming and hawing. Actually, it gives me some hope that maybe our government is not on its way to becoming a dictatorship.
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