Me, Me, Me, Me, Me
Former Bush administration national security adviser Elliott Abrams criticizes President Obama for trying to take too much of the credit for Osama Bin Laden's demise (Hat Tip: Michael F). President Obama will bask in the satisfaction of all Americans that justice has finally been done—and done through an assault that combined the best of intelligence work with a courageous and well planned military operation. It is entirely appropriate that Mr. Obama and the Administration get and take a fair amount of credit.Deja vu all over again. Obama's Awesomeness just can't be matched.
It is therefore unfortunate that Mr. Obama seems to want more than that fair share the American people will naturally and rightly give him. His remarks last night were far too much laced with words like “I met repeatedly,” “at my direction,” and “I determined,” trying to take personal credit for the years of painstaking work by our intelligence community. Mr. Obama might have noted that this work began under President Bush, but as usual he did not. It was also a mistake for him to use this occasion to deliver unrelated comments about “the pursuit of prosperity for our people” and “the struggle for equality for all our citizens.” A shorter and more straightforward announcement would have been more appropriate for this occasion.
Once again here the White House appeared unable to get the messaging quite right, a failure magnified by the amateurish delay of more than an hour in Mr. Obama’s remarks. The White House told the nation at roughly 10 p.m. that the President would speak at 10.30. Had the President done so, he would have delivered fabulous and shocking news. By the time he actually spoke nearer to midnight his words were an anticlimax, for all the news had leaked. Whatever the cause of this delay—Mr. Obama editing the remarks for too long, or a belatedly discovered need to brief Congressional and world leaders—it suggested that the calm professionalism in the face of crisis shown here by our military and intelligence professionals has yet to be achieved in the White House.
Heh.
Labels: Barack Obama, egomania, Osama Bin Laden
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:56 AM
5 Comments:
abrams is a sore loser
bush failed to get osama
a liberal dem got it done
SUCK IT HATERS
conservative soldiers got him , after intelligence obtained by waterboarding found the courier.
now obama can turn his full attention to destroying Israel
Where is the body to back up the DNA results...?
It's again a case of 'the more carefully the lie is constructed, the more generally it is believed.'
Like the demolition of the WTC buildings - surgically into their own basements, the bomb or missile that hit the Pentagon, Rabin's murder, Zeevi's murder, Raful Eitan's "drowning," the framing of Baruch Goldstein, etc.
How unfortunate that Organizing for America sends the likes of Bacci40 to shill for a usurper.
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