A few days ago President Obama announced to the nation that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid on his compound in Pakistan. Rather than congratulating the administration for having achieved a goal that had evaded the previous administration for seven years, the GOP went on the attack accusing Obama of everything from conducting the mission for political gain to making up the whole thing. Some critics even alleged that Obama had opposed the mission and the military acted in defiance of his orders which, of course, would be a treasonous act punishable by death.
It’s clear that the President’s opponents are simply unwilling to grant him the slightest bit of praise no matter what he does. They are there only to viciously attack him. These are the same people who ridiculed America’s leader being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and who celebrated when the U.S. was not awarded the prestige and economic benefit of the Olympic Games. They take pleasure in seeing the country embarrassed or harmed so long as they can blame it on Obama.
Conversely, they have a severely abnormal obsession with assigning credit to George W. Bush for things he wasn’t remotely involved in. With regard to Bin Laden, Bush famously said that “I don’t know where Bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important.”
Nevertheless, the right is trying mightily to persuade their feeble-minded flock that it was Bush who brought Bin Laden to justice and that Obama was a mere bit player, or worse, an obstacle. This isn’t anything new. Here are a couple of examples of revisionist right-wingisms as envisioned by Fox News:
So while Bush and his cronies drove the nation into the worst economic decline in decades, Fox tried to credit Bush for the recovery that Obama presided over. And when Obama executed his policy to draw down our engagement in Iraq, Fox tried to give Bush credit for that as well. In short, if something bad happens it doesn’t matter how early in his term it is, Obama is the owner and the cause of it. If something good happens it wouldn’t matter if it were the last days of his second term, he is merely a lucky bystander.
This sort of cynical dishonesty would be bad enough if partaken by a partisan politician or pundit, but when it is presented by a so-called “news” organization as fair and balanced reporting it escalates to obscenity. It is proof that when Rush Limbaugh said that he hopes the President (and therefore the country) fails, he meant it, and many of his ideological comrades are feverishly hoping the same thing.
Hi! You might be interested in this story at the NYTimes. They ran an article about videos critical of the Koch Brothers and have been frantically deleted comments ever since:
http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2011/05/brave-new-foundation-targets-koch.html
This should surprise no one. I watched some of Fox’s coverage on and off for the first day after the President came on Sunday. You could see immedeately what they were doing. It is beyond pathetic. I guarantee you Fox will continue to raise their own question, did Obama oppose Bin Laden Raid? I can see it now on their screen box when they are discussing it with some “expert” like Andrew Breitbart! Right wing talk radio and TV will be all over it bouncing it back and forth in their echo chamber as no longer speculation but fact. And there you have it boys and girls, not only does Obama deserve no credit, if they did what he really wanted, it never would have happened. This is the narrative they will settle on and by Nov. ’12 they will have said it enough, they hope, to get as many people as possible to accept their progaganda as at least plausible!
Fox News and the republicans can say all they want to. Sensible people will give credit to PRESIDENT OBAMA WHO GOT OSAMA. Nothing will change that fact. If everything went the wrong way they surely wouldn’t have let Bush take any shared credit then, would not? No they wouldn’t. They want it both ways and boy the truly look stupid.
OBAMA ROCKS get over it Fox Republican News Network.
0bama takes pleasure in projecting his weakness to the entire world.