Could not have said it better myself.

of the 9-11 attacks was crying out for justice for the past 10 years. We are not gloating but are glad that justice, in part, maybe even in large part, was finally done.

We hope you are right about the staying power of this victory. We need true conservatives to run for office and to win. America needs another 2010 election next year, even more so. We not only need to change the presidency but also the Senate, and other political offices throughout the states. America is facing dire situations in the future, even worse than we have now.

Wake up America! Rise up conservatives!

or die option, and foregoing the chance of extracting intelligence information, or more precisely, that their superiors had such reasons.

H.W.’s sky-high favorability after the Gulf War.

Actually, from purely pragmatic political point of view it is very good that it happened when it happened and is no longer a risk of an October surprise which was always hanging out there. Can’t think of a better timing, again, from purely political point of view.

Thank you CIA and US Military. I waited for this for almost 10 years.

… are unlikely to feature the faces of the dead or any “Mission Accomplished” banners. Obama’s base will be unhappy if our troops aren’t home by July 4th now that his argument for being in Afghanistan (oops!) is gone, an argument the Muslim Brotherhood is already making, is likely to emphasize, and could turn into a rallying point. If this becomes a central issue in 2012 it may well be as a negative for Obama.

Truman’s Democrats weren’t helped by victory in World War 2 and more recently George HW Bush couldn’t ride the wave long enough after the Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union to victory.

I would like to thank the US Military for a job well done. This is a great day for America.

Is there any doubt why he released his birth certificate when he did. Now no will be able to question it.

Not a plant. I live in Chicago and I have been reading Redstate for a number of years. although I don’t comment much, I’ve watched Obama and everything is calculated with this guy. By the way I’m the NUT that got Susan Rosegen fired from CNN with my son. I guess I was just a conspiracy nut about the media bias.Look at the time line. the report said they Osama was killed a number of days ago and they were waiting for the DNA test.

Sorry for the typos. I just woke up.

because we can’t afford four more years with this guy. America will cease to exist as a free country.

I see the other comments regarding George HW Bush, but remember: he didn’t have the backing of the press to help him out. They are going to use this to the nth degree to get him re-elected.

In political terms, I consider our fight is back to square one.

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Ultimately, important intel leading to this day came from interrogations at Gitmo. But it was the President’s call and he will get credit for, as he said, this greatest success against Al Queda. There is no question that it will make him much, much tougher to defeat. Until now, his foreign policy looked like a joke, but getting Usama Bin Laden is already being depicted as part of foreign policy, as in “his greatest foreign policy accomplishment.” And whenever he mentions it during the debates, he will get applause. What can his opponent possibly say in response?

in the 2012 election cycle to have an effect. He will use it as a feather in his foreign policy cap and he will get the inevitable bump in approval ratings, but to quote a famous Democrat years ago, “Its the economy stupid.”

Why coolly wait until the media give you the credit when you can go in front of the cameras and TAKE it? It’s the narcissistic thing to do, after all.

What bugs me is that he implied, in his comment that the FIRST thing he did with Leon Pannetta was to make finding bin Laden his #1 priority, that finding bin Laden was not previously the intelligence community’s #1 priority.

With Obama, it’s all about Obama. And I thought Clinton was in love with himself!

Bravo and kudos to the military and intelligence people who got this done. We will never know how many have given their lives in this search over the past 10 years. And Mr. President, good job giving the go-ahead on this mission!

64% of You were duped once so don’t be duped again!

The killing of Osama is no big deal he is just another killer and fugitive from justice that was finally caught and dealt justice. Whether Obama takes credit or not will not make a difference to to the almost 3000 innocent victims killed at ground zero. Osama’s being killed does not make a difference to any of us Americans that are paying exorbitant fuel prices, the 66% jump in food prices, the 15 million plus out of jobs and unemployment and all the 1 in 5 Americans that are in some type of foreclosure because of all the aforementioned issues and then some. “We the People” will take our country back one election at a time.

Sunday May 1st, 2011 informationliberation.com
Osama Bin Laden Has Been Dead For Years

Now that Osama’s dead body is being trotted out to boost Obama’s approval ratings, er, because he was just killed in an air strike or some nonsense, it’s worth taking a look back at the researchers who concluded Osama bin Laden died years ago. David Ray Griffin wrote an entire book about it. Mike Rivero also wrote the article “Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government,” where he cited numerous heads of state, CIA agents, intelligence officials, etc. who all concluded Osama has been dead for years.

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Testimonial Evidence that Bin Laden Is Dead

In addition to this objective evidence, we had considerable testimony in 2002, from people in position to know, that bin Laden was dead, or probably so. These people included:

• President Musharraf of Pakistan;

• Dale Watson, the head of the FBI’s counterterrorism unit;

• Oliver North, who said: “I’m certain that Osama is dead. . . And so are all the other guys I stay in touch with”;

• President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan;

• Sources within Israeli intelligence, who said that any new messages from bin Laden were “probably fabrications”;

• Sources within Pakistani intelligence, who “confirmed the death of . . . Osama Bin Laden” and “attributed the reasons behind Washington’s hiding news on the death of Osama Bin Laden to the desire of the hawks of the American administration to use the issue of al-Qaida and international terrorism to invade Iraq.”

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The evidence Osama has been dead for years is overwhelming, people have been predicting for years his dead body was going to be trotted out as part of some PR stunt. Absent the presentation of some overwhelmingly compelling evidence to the contrary, it looks like that’s what we’re witnessing right now.[NOAD]

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RUN TOTO RUN

…it DOES make him more difficult to beat. He now can boast the greatest War on Terror accomplishment since it began – and that is a mighty big bat to swing when the media is lobbing softballs.

…it DOES make him more difficult to beat. He now can boast the greatest War on Terror accomplishment since it began – and that is a mighty big bat to swing when the media is lobbing softballs.

Right, Erick, not only does this not make Obama invulnerable to 2012 defeat, but I’d suggest it will actually serve in the end to do the opposite. The immediate taking to the streets in the middle of the night with American flags, non-stop chants of “U-S-A”, God Bless America!”, and spontaneous singing of the national anthem (such as the great West Point Youtube clip) have the common theme of intense patriotism and STRENGTH — a country BURSTING in its wish to regain that strength, a country that Obama has done his best at every turn to apologize for and even condemn on numerous counts, including its military practices of interrogation and twisting our attempts to promote and defend freedom as “dictating”. Remember this is the president who, in a stunning twist of lunacy, has handed his own country over to the UN for “human rights transgressions”. He bows (physically and mentally) before our enemies and is slowly but surely abandoning Israel as many have long-suspected he would. Our very American IDENTITY is being removed by this man. So we have been made immensely WEAKER, not stronger, and no one is going to dismiss or forget Obamas’ “transformation-wish” tomorrow because of UBL. Rather, I believe this successful military operation will inspire us to work even HARDER to defeat Obama and his idealogical “visions” and get this nation, and our identity, back to what our fathers and grandfathers fought and died for. Obama may be in office and he may take paper-credit for the “victory”, but he will remain outside its celebration in the hearts of the people. We, as conservatives, instead will celebrate the PROUD and GOOD country we are and would be again without this man. The disparity of our national memories of being a beacon of hope to the world, against Obama’s persistent attempt to level us on the playing field – and even lower us – should be STARKLY, strongly in contrast this morning. Let Obama continue to say “I” did this, “I” did that” ….it is the WE who know better that matter. It is the WE who fight the war of ideals that will remove him from the halls he walks and taints with every footstep. U-S-A!!

At first I thought, as you mention, that this makes Obama a lot harder to defeat because he can say “I got OBL.”

Then I thought, none of the people we really want (i.e. governors who will focus on the financial issues) have very strong international backgrounds, but now they won’t need to (in the minds of most Americans).

I think this will help us turn this more and more into a debate about the economy.

Eric I think you will be right in the long run but in the short term i think we have a huge fight on our hands. so many things are at stake like the Obamacare and the debt ceiling. Obama has leverage on that now that will be hard to break.

The first thought I had was that this was great news. Finally. Then all the other sideshow antics started popping into my head. Obama taking credit, his poll numbers boost, Al Qaeda retaliation, troop withdrawal predictions, etc.

There are a lot of people who have very differing opinions on this issue, even within the Red State community. I have read several takes on this “victory” just in this single comment thread.

One thing I have to say, something I have noticed for years. There is a significant number of intolerant comment writers that regularly post here. At the risk of being banned, I would include some of the moderators in that group.

I know there are some wacko’s that just come here to rile people up and need to be castigated and banned. I am not referring to that type of moderating. But everyone has an opinion (and if it is not the same as mine, it is obviously wrong .) My point is – this site has a wide variety of views on every topic that gets emailed to the readership early every morning. Many times, I have seen people ridiculed for their comments, even if they had a valid point.

We all get to hear the MSM spin on any given issue. There is no other side presented. At Red State, the analysis of any event, large or small, is presented with logical thought and critical thinking. When someone who thinks opposite (leftie, birther, or whomever) makes a comment, I see it as an opportunity to use some of that logic and analytical thought to pulverize the brainwashed dolt into submission. This can serve to show the left (or other offender) why we are differnt than they are. We don’t just sit around miming the talking points, we engage in debate. Winning the debate is far better than using cliches and other mechanisms to present the message.

When someone posts a comment that differs from the accepted view on this site, it should be taken apart with a point-by-point analysis, not an insult-fest (although an occasional insult can be effective and often welcome.) If the offending poster can not back up his comments, the rest of us, many who rarely post a comment, will gain some valuable insight. This will, in turn, help us to confront some of those aforementioned dolts in our day to day lives.

I might also add that sometimes the “ban” card is played a little early. I say, let them make their argument. There are many posting members on this sight that live to verbally castrate the offenders that dare to step into the fray.

That is my opinion. If someone thinks otherwise, wrong as they may be, they can post theirs.

we still have to buy gas and groceries. A great victory, but the euphoria will fade soon. Kudos to our military and others who had a hand in it.

let’s see him do great & mighty things at our southern border!!!Because if he could personally get this done then the EVIL at the border should be a cake walk. I’m so sick of that man and his false bravado!
I agree it was our wonderful WARRIORS & the CIA, believe me they certainly had NO help from the powers that be in DC!
Thank you God for your mercy on us!!

let’s see him do great & mighty things at our southern border!!!Because if he could personally get this done then the EVIL at the border should be a cake walk. I’m so sick of that man and his false bravado!
I agree it was our wonderful WARRIORS & the CIA, believe me they certainly had NO help from the powers that be in DC!
Thank you God for your mercy on us!!

greatly, and like Erick said this happened on his watch so he deserves the credit. But the 2012 election wont be about foreign policy, its going to be about the economy and therefore this wont end up helping him much in that election. And even on the foreign policy front, while this will be a major victory for him, the Libyia endeavor looks like it will cancel it out.

Obama deserves the same credit Nixon got for putting a man on the moon.

Obama deserves the same credit Nixon got for putting a man on the moon.

I don’t think so. Our military and intelligence agencies get 100% of the credit. I doubt Obama was ever in the loop on this operation.

Obama disdains our military, just as he does the American people. He is an opportunist, same as all the other leaches in our federal government, and wouldn’t loose an opportunity to take credit no matter what the source.

My guess is that he was in the middle of another one of his White House parties or on the golf course when the news broke on Bin Laden and was even pissed about being interrupted.

I do believe that this will make Obama end up winning in 2012, however his speech left me somewhat I awe. He seemed very nervous for one, and he stated to Muslim community, this is not a war against Muslim, I found was unnecessary, wt this time. But, he is what he is!

shark food. Thank God for the brave men and women who conceived of the operation to eliminate OBL, and carried it out with such efficiency and at great risk to themselves. We, as a nation should be very proud and protective of our military.
As for BOgus…of course, he will attempt to take all the credit. He does not do anything without an eye on his re-election campaign, and the media, of course, will put there spin on it. The voters must not put a halo around his head, without remembering the horns that sprout there as well. No to BOgus in 2012.

On fighting the war on terror.

I know I didn’t spell right correctly. I am so used to seeing a wr after Bush is . . .

However, my gut instinct when I heard the news was that this was the end of the 2012 election. After sleeping on it and reflecting the next morning, I don’t feel much differently.

Fair or not, major events get credited to the “man on watch.” Reagan will forever be attached to the release of the Iranian hostages in people’s minds, even though his actions had little or nothing to do with it. People will generally remember that UBL was not captured or killed during GWB’s watch, but Obama “got him.”

I pray to God I’m wrong, but my political instincts are usually pretty good. Hope I’m all wet here.

Obama is hurting America much more than Osama ever did
Obama and Hi-LIAR-y
got Egypt overthrown
now Obama’s Muslim-Brotherhood an take over as planned

Obama. This man shamelessly is trying to take all of the credit for something he only happened to be in the WH for. The credit should be going to God, first and foremost. Closely followed by our brave military personnel who have given their lives for this moment.

Obama’s own ego is what will be his downfall in 2012. Instead of taking this moment in history to be Presidential for once, he took it as an opportunity to campaign for his accomplishments. Add to this our bad economy and his huge foreign policy blunders in Libya and elsewhere, he is every bit as weak as he was last Friday.

All he did was continue the policies of Bush, which were proved correct after all. I give him credit for that, but I doubt it was because he believed in them (he said as much as a Senator). It was more out of a realization of how incompetent he was in this area and that it was best to delegate such matters to those who knew better.

I knew the minute I heard the news, the media’s take would be that this is the moment that will guarantee his re-election!

And that was what was on his mind as he gave the speech last night…

I don’t believe anything the Obama administration says.

Let’s see the photos. Just like after Sadams sons met Allah.

Was their a blood dialysis machine in Obamas house?

OBL had a genetic kidney defect. He had been in a state of renal failure for years. Someone in that condition would need dialysis almost every other day.
I doubt OBL was going to a doctor twice a week.

Show us some proof.

Personally speaking I put the faith in the American People to decide whether they are better off with Obama’s policy. In spite of every effort of the main stream media the American People have held on to their patriotism and love of country. The American People have seen the Black and White contrast between conservative values and liberalism. While it is wonderful to appreciate what was accomplished over the weekend by our military and The President and his staff it still doesn’t change the current landscape of the every day woe’s we face each day under this Administration. We see the gas prices rising and know instinctively there is a better way but as usual we run in to the grand wall of the Liberal ideas and the Environmentalists who seem to relish sticking it to the American People at every chance they can.

I believe the contrast between the Obama “I” and the humbleness of Former President Bush certainly is a reminder that there is a better way and a better future to be had by all which doesn’t relate to spreading the wealth. I think the American People will remember the defiance of Obama and the Democrats with Healthcare and our ability to tap our own oil and gas reserves. The American People will weight the constant lies coming from this White House and the pure arrogance of the President on all things which matter to the heart and soul of each of us. As a reminder one has to remember that this victory began with the Bush/Chenney Administration and that Obama is purely a recipient of those policies. And of that fact the American People have already absorbed the delaying by the President beginning early in his term with the Somali Pirates and the almost blatant delay sending much needed troops to Afghanistan and the slow response by Obama to the Gulf oil spill. In each case there were wise individuals that offered sound advise that Obama disregarded so as to appear in control. I do not believe that the defeat handed to Obama in last November’s election was anything but a direct message that we don’t care for Obama’s plans nor the direction he intends to take this country.

The killing of Osama did not begin with Obama; that resolve was there from the remembrance of 911. The CIA and the Military we just as dedicated to that end as they are keeping us safe on a day to day level. Many in the cheering crowd in front of the White House fence were but children when 911 happened. I dare say the young men and women that make up our armed forces are of that generation. Few should not forget the total amazement of many of the main stream media on the abilities of our young military personnel and their ability to get the job done. I for one cannot forget those who sacrificed all for this cause and for the Nation they serve. That was the jubilation we witnessed last night. Not the crafted delay of the White House and Obama.

Obama has not won the right to a second term as yet. Much will depend on who ultimately will face him but more importantly is the American voter of whom many wish to correct a mistake made in 2008. The American people know our role in the world and our mistakes; We also know we are not the arrogant evil nation that Obama sees. Will he win? My bet leans to the memories of the American People. We didn’t forget what happened with the Democrats and this out of control President and we cast our votes to stop Obama and I believe we will do it again. Osama Bin Laden will not shape the 2012 election but Obama himself will.