Osama bin Laden dead (Official)

[memphis]

Hells f'ing yeah!!!!!!!

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Can Obama beat Bush Jr.'s 92%? 

It depends how he died.  If WE did it intentionally, I think he's got a good chance.  If we didn't kill him or it wasn't intentional (we targetted a terror cell and got him not knowing he was there), he'll get a HUGE spike, but not that high.

Well, if it's the former, then the Dick Cheneys, John Boltons, and John McCains should endorse Obama for re-election. Should do, but probably won't do.

To be fair, no, they shouldn't.  Obama's not the one doing the intelligence work.  I don't mean to downplay the great role I'm sure he played in this, but that act alone doesn't make one worthy of reelection.

[Phony Moderate]

The BBC is being cautious, as usual.

[bloombergforpresident]

 

Hells f'ing yeah!!!!!!!

Agreed.

[bloombergforpresident]

And it's about time

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

But is this Hiroshima or is this Pearl Harbor for Al Qaeda?  I'm afraid to think that it may only get worse from here.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I think from a political standpoint, George W. Bush is relieved that there is physical evidence that his invasion of Afghanistan 9 1/2 years ago was justified and that his main target is finally dead.  It may not have happened under his watch, but that it did happen.

[bloombergforpresident]

BIN LADEN IS DEAD MOTHA F****S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so, so, so happy!

CELEBRATE THE TIMES DUH DUNH DUNH DUH!

I'm hoping for no school tomorrow =). But not likely

[Dgov]

Good riddance.  But why not keep him in deep freeze until the weekend before the election?  Are they that desperate?

Well, its kind of hard to hide something like that for that long.  It also looks really bad if exposed, and would probably actually hurt Obama.

But anyway, it looks like we got him.  lets just hope this turns out to be a good thing in the long run

[bullmoose88]

Sign of apocalypse...Phils and Mets fans cheering at the same game.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Now there's speculation going around on Twitter that Obama timed this to interrupt Celebrity Apprentice and take a jab at Trump... how dumb.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

CBS is saying that we may have violated Pakistani sovereignty to get him.

[Phony Moderate]

So 10:30PM EST is coming up at half past this hour? Sorry, time zones confuse me sometimes.

[Joe Biden 2020]

From a political standpoint, I wonder if this breaking news will erase all the other wrongs that Obama has done in his first 27 months in office and basically hand him the election 18 months in advance?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I think from a political standpoint, George W. Bush is relieved that there is physical evidence that his invasion of Afghanistan 9 1/2 years ago was justified and that his main target is finally dead.  It may not have happened under his watch, but that it did happen.

Not many questioned the invasion of Afghanistan (other than Truthers, and they'll still say we just murdered a scapegoat just now).  It got more popular as we've stayed there, but I don't think the War there was ever that unpopular.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So 10:30PM EST is coming up at half past this hour? Sorry, time zones confuse me sometimes.

No, that was 35 minutes ago.  It is now 11:05 EDT, 10:05 CDT. 8:05 PDT.  Remember, in Daylight Savings Time, the East Coast is 4 hours behind GMT.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

So 10:30PM EST is coming up at half past this hour? Sorry, time zones confuse me sometimes.

No, it was supposed to be 10:30 P.M. EDT.  They're running behind.

[The Dowager Mod]

Screw Pakistan they owe us anyway.

[Dgov]

From a political standpoint, I wonder if this breaking news will erase all the other wrongs that Obama has done in his first 27 months in office and basically hand him the election 18 months in advance?

. . . Not really.  Its not like getting Bin Laden is mostly Obama's doing, or that national security issues were bringing Obama down more than anything else.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I think from a political standpoint, George W. Bush is relieved that there is physical evidence that his invasion of Afghanistan 9 1/2 years ago was justified and that his main target is finally dead.  It may not have happened under his watch, but that it did happen.

Not many questioned the invasion of Afghanistan (other than Truthers, and they'll still say we just murdered a scapegoat just now).  It got more popular as we've stayed there, but I don't think the War there was ever that unpopular.

It still doesn't hurt either President Bush's image or President Obama's image.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

From a political standpoint, I wonder if this breaking news will erase all the other wrongs that Obama has done in his first 27 months in office and basically hand him the election 18 months in advance?

Its hard to say. It will help him for quite awhile but its hard to see this making people forget about the economic problems for that long. If he wins, it will likely be the coninuance of the recovery that did it for him.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

From a political standpoint, I wonder if this breaking news will erase all the other wrongs that Obama has done in his first 27 months in office and basically hand him the election 18 months in advance?

Its hard to say. It will help him for quite awhile but its hard to see this making people forget about the economic problems for that long. If he wins, it will likely be the coninuance of the recovery that did it for him.

Yeah.  We're still a long way out from 2012 for this to matter that much by then.  It'll give him a big spike in approval ratings, but that won't last a year and a half.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Of course, President Clinton is probably saying somewhere that "if I had gotten him, we could have avoided all this mess."

[tmthforu94]

Praise God!

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

CNN reporting he was killed in Islamabad; CBS saying Afghanistan.