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But the rest of the world might not see it that way.
They should.
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Spicy Joker| 5.2.11 @ 1:39AM
Obama won't see it that way, either.
Alan Brooks| 5.2.11 @ 3:35AM
I hope Mr. Kirchhoefer will now agree Obama has to be re-elected; in fact, bin Laden's death is a sign from God that Obama must be re-elected.
David W| 5.2.11 @ 8:43AM
Alan, do you even believe in God? Obama did one thing right in giving the goahead to kill Osama. If he hadn't, and the American people had learned he hadn't, his re-election changes would have been nil.
I don't think that the order to take or kill Osama makes up for the other things that Obama is doing to help drive this country down the road to a third world existance (skyrocketing energy prices, spending us into default, killing oil exploration but apparently being willing to send money to support Brazil's exploration and promising to become their best customer, getting us into a "non-war war" in Libya yet leaving the major terrorist countries (Syria and Iran) alone, socialist wealth distribution policies that never really distribute the wealth of the liberals - who just have their accountants find ways to avoid it, threatening his enemies, rewarding his friends in the unions with millions of tax dollars, talking about civility and yet talking about an assault on unions, ignoring court rulings unless they support his plans, etc.).
No, Alan, signing the order to kill Osama doesn't make up for all of the other stuff.
Bob K.| 5.2.11 @ 7:04AM
In the historic words of Neville Chamberlain, President Obama has now achieved "peace in our time!"
Mike| 5.2.11 @ 8:29AM
So how depressed is everyone at AmSpec that President Obama achieved what President Bush didn't?
Can't wait to see how the right wing nuts try to spin this negatively.
More birtherism?
Grzmlyk| 5.2.11 @ 10:21AM
Well, Obama's already achieved something else Bush didn't: He's bankrupted the country, destroyed the dollar, made us beggars in the world marketplace and put millions on the government dole.
But yeah, I guess there's poetic justice in the fact that this idiot Kirchhoefer thinks Obama has earned his Nobel Prize - for doing nothing to interfere with an ongoing operation.
Obama will be declared the one and only True God for this; had Bush captured Bin Laden, he'd be hanged at the World Court.
Kate| 5.2.11 @ 9:05AM
I'm doubtful this will bring about much change, except in the confidence of the American public in their safety. However, it doesn't seem to me that Bin Laden's been a major player for quite awhile, so what threat has Obama really neutralized? What has he done other than perpetuate the old testament eye-for-an-eye revenge killing (aka murder) way of thinking? It sickened me to see vast crowds of people celebrating a human being's death, no matter how evil that human being may or may not have been. In the words of Sister Helen Prejean, "people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives." Also, as Albert Camus said, "it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." I would also like to point out that, according to CNN, 3 other men and a woman being USED AS A HUMAN SHIELD were also killed in our efforts to assassinate Bin Laden. Are those actions worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize? I surely hope not, no matter how impressed I am by the way Obama's handled himself lately. He may be coming into his own in many ways but it doesn't mean I have to condone the fact he basically put a hit out on the man. So, tell me again, just how did Obama "earn" himself a Nobel Peace Prize and do you honestly think anyone on the Nobel Peace Prize committee would ever, in a million years, agree with you in the slightest?
Irini | 5.2.11 @ 10:02AM
Of course they would - they gave it to him already despite his actions. But on the rest I agree with you. There won't be any change. None at all.
Actually, I am amazed how many really believe they killed him only today. Bin Laden has been dead for almost ten years now.With no american interfernce at all.
Kate| 5.2.11 @ 11:54AM
If they do, the Nobel Peace Prize will cease to become anything more than a joke in my eyes. I will no longer respect something I had great admiration for nor bother to give it any merit or weight. At least I can *hope* that the prize in Literature will not be corrupted this thoroughly by politics. However, I still have hope, if not faith, that they are above the pettiness of this type of politics and will not award someone for carrying out a political assassination that resulted in the death of innocents.
Pete| 5.2.11 @ 10:12AM
Lucky the military got him before they were pulled out, defunded and further emasculated. This event will be used as an excuse for all 3.