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Subscribe to RSSLost in the shuffle from Friday was Obama’s speech before the National Women’s Leadership Forum. His comments about how the GOP see women were pointed, NBC’s Shawna Thomas reports. Obama started off talking about his mother and the women in his life and then ended by seriously attacking the GOP.
“The days of male politicians controlling the health care decisions of our wives and our mothers and our daughters and our sisters, that needs to come to an end,” Obama said. He added, “This contraception fight, in particular, was illuminating. It was like being in a time machine. … I'm always puzzled by this. This is a party that says it prides itself on being rabidly anti-regulation. These are folks who claim to believe in freedom from government interference and meddling, but it doesn't seem to bother them when it comes to women's health.
“A lot of them seem like they want to turn back the clock to the '50s or the '40s or the '30s or maybe further back than that and close doors of opportunity that we thought we kicked open a long time ago, doors of opportunity to people who haven't made it quite yet.”
Politico: “A year after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama’s team is launching another precision operation: a full-scale public relations offensive aimed at using the bin Laden mission to boost the president’s reelection bid.”
The New York Times: “Back then the Democratic president refused to do a victory dance, saying Americans didn’t ‘need to spike the football.’ But that was a year ago. Facing an onslaught of criticism from Republican rivals who try to paint him as a lightweight celebrity, the Obama White House and campaign are engaging in a media blitz meant to remind everyone who has been calling the shots on foreign policy.”
AP: “The killing of Osama bin Laden, first presented as a moment of national unity by President Barack Obama, has become something else: a political weapon.” More: “The broader goal for Obama, whether through campaign web videos or the trappings of the White House, is not to just to remind voters of an enormous victory on his watch. It is to maximize a political narrative that he has the courage to make tough calls that his opponent might not.”
“The Obama administration rushed to contain a growing diplomatic crisis between the United States and China, sending a senior diplomat to Beijing to discuss the fate of a blind dissident who fled house arrest last week,” the New York Times writes.
McCain on Obama: “Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. This is the same President who once criticized Hillary Clinton for invoking bin Laden ‘to score political points.’ This is the same President who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn’t ‘spike the ball’ after the touchdown. And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected. No one disputes that the President deserves credit for ordering the raid, but to politicize it in this way is the height of hypocrisy.”
The RNC notes that Obama’s done 128 fundraisers, more than George W. Bush at this time in 2004 when he was running for reelection.
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IF George W. had killed bin Laden, there would have been a NYC parade! And there would be anniversary TV specials on every channel celebrating George W's accomplishment. But, since it was President Obama who focused on finding bin Laden and gave the order to kill him, the GOP are doing every single thing they can to trivialise and even insult the Commander in Chief for such an important event for/to the world. Why can't the GOP give credit where credit is due? Because they are scared? Because they are immature? The GOP needs to realize that they cannot rewrite history and accept the fact that President Obama is responsible for ridding the world of bin Laden. And we thank you, President Obama, for having the keen intelligence and high integrity for making the world a bit safer.
Yes, scared and immature ....and quite hypocritical.
Obama "deserves credit" but he's not allowed to mention it--EVER--or else that's "politicizing." As if GWB never did that..... God forbid.
Yes to both.
Because President Obama is still black.
Yeah, and we can't mention G.W. Bush/Dead-eyed Dick Cheney either nor complain about what they did to this nation - that would be "politicizing" also...
Is it just me, or are there others out there who are fed up with such assinine RNC-TEA double standards?
Ridiculous!
Hurry November...
The Commander in Chief is not the one who had to go into that compound and face the unfriendly fire.....As you have so often said, it is easy to be the one to make others go and do the work, fight in the foreign land.....What is horrid, is the fact that it is being politicized....Getting through to Bin Laden was a long process of tracking, waiting for the opportunity that represented the least risk to our military personnel, the quickest and most effective, the least likely to fail and send him further into hiding. There has been very little credit given to the servicemen who executed the orders and risked their personal safety to carry it out. It is a great thing for the world at large to be rid of another terrorist leader, but please, lets give credit to the ones who actually did the fighting. Is the Obama administration any different for sending troops into Afghanistan than the Bush administration for Iraq? I have been waiting for almost 4 years for somebody to tell me why one war is desirable and the other is not...Both are wars, and both result in casualties.
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Aww...republicans, conservatives and teabaggers are still butthurt over President Obama getting OBL.
Get used to that feeling, goobers. There's LOTS more to come!
OH PUHLEEZE!!!!
I think the President should have had all the t-v news cameras film him on the deck of a aircraft carrier with a huge banner shouting, "Mission Accomplished, finally!"
Why is it okay for dubya to do that, but if a Democrat tries it, it is a "cheap political attack ad?"
Stuff like this is EXACTLY why I am fed up and through with Republicans - always trying to get the advantage over someone else at any price....
SEND THEM BACK HOME TO THE FARM TO WORK FOR A LIVING LIKE REGULAR FOLK!!
Obama could not have said no to the Seal Team Six. To do so would have hurt him in the long run. He was realizing the fruits of years of intelligence gathering from the Bush Administration. They simply obtained an O.K. from Barrack to go ahead.
Of course, he sucked up all the credit he possibly could. Anything to divert attention from his horrible economic policy, even for just a week or two.
What an absolute phony. What a loser. No wonder he is refered to as the little empty suit. Time for a real leader with real business acumen. Time for President Romney for the next eight years.
Obama shelved in 2012
A bunch of RNC-TEA talking point HORSE HOCKEY!!!
Dubya didn't want to "get" Bin Laden because he was trying to broker oil deals and make profits from Bin Laden's father & family.
President Obama did NOT "realize fruits ... from the Bush Administration" in this matter. That is plain ignorant Joe. Quit trying to change facts and re-write history.
Truth of the matter is Obama got Bin Laden, Bush didn't; PERIOD. Plain and simple no matter how much you and your ilk try to spin it, or what kind of excuses, rationalizations, and justification you spew out to create some alternate reality.
Re-read my posts above; WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR GOP-TEA IDIOTIC B.S.
Take it on down the ramp 'cause American voters aren't buying it again in November 2012.
Not as Stupid.
Your name is misleading. Reading your posts your name should be dumber than dirt.
Scares you doesn't it ruk....
Whole lot of votesr just like me will turn out this coming November.
We are going to OCCUPY instead of allow your continued rape of America. Better get used to it!
It is his only accomplishment to the betterment of man kind. He gave the go ahead. That was all and it worked for him. I will give him credit for saying yes to it. But that is all he did. One shining moment so to speak. One thing in four years. Makes me want to give him another term. NOT.
WOW ruk....
Talk about "dumber than dirt!"
Sheese!