For someone who claimed he would have the most transparent administration ever, Obama sure has a weird way of showing it. Set aside the failure to show proposed legislation on C-SPAN as was promised, forget bypassing the White House visitor's log so the public has no idea who he's meeting with, just ignore him sealing his records (along with his wife's), and disregard the fact that he sat on his birth certificate until Donald Trump rattled his cage - you don't want to be labeled a conspiracy theorist, do you? Okay, we know he lies and we know he hides things but he has really outdone himself with this bin Laden stuff. They can't even get the story straight about the actual circumstances of the mission and to top it off they throw the evidence overboard. What the hell? The dog ate your homework?
Supposedly they gave bin Laden a nice Sharia-approved sendoff so as not to offend Muslims. I guess they figure that will make up for shooting an unarmed old man in the face in front of his family instead of capturing him - yeah, that should forestall any potential indignation from his followers. We are supposed to believe that some obscure pastor burning the Koran would set off global mayhem but sending Osama to sleep with the fishes would not be a problem. They might have said all the right words over the body, but it's a little hard to keep your head pointed toward Mecca when you are the guest of honor at an all-you-can-eat shark buffet.
None of this is making any sense, and it doesn't help Obama's credibility when we see him rushing to make political hay of this by pushing his own role to the forefront - he is certainly not one to miss an opportunity to turn a situation to his personal advantage, as he showed with his despicable politicization of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. His speech on Osama's death seemed a bit schizophrenic - he started out talking about 9-11 and actually acknowledged the work of military and counter-terrorism professionals, but about halfway through he reverted to campaign mode and it was all about Obama patting himself on the back for a job well done. Mr. Tough Guy. Mr. Macho Man. A war-mongering, ass-kicking ring-tailed son-of-a-gun! Hey, what happened to Mr. Nobel Peace Prize? Who cares, he's Winning!!!! Geez, this guy can't make up his mind if he's Charlie Sheen or George Bush (I'm leaning toward Charlie).
He even used the word "terrorist" - I thought that was verboten, but maybe he's trying to regain the support of people who increasingly see him as out of touch on the terrorism issue. It also seemed strange that he mentioned God three times at the end of his speech - what's up with that? Now he's a God fan? He seems to think guns are just dandy now, too. Oh noooo - he's turning into a bitter clinger! What's next, buying a truck and joining the Tea Party? After all, he just finished praising God, guns and the American Way. Nah, much as I would like to see Reid and Pelosi commit hara-kiri, that would be just too good to be true.
The inconvenient truth for the president is that because of his concealment of records and obfuscation of issues, more and more people are becoming willing to publicly question what he says. Even if it means they will be called nasty names by the slobbering sycophants in the mainstream media, there are now "deathers" joining with the "birthers". Like the boy who cried wolf, Obama is no longer believed. Allowing the birth certificate issue to simmer for so long has led to a situation where the authenticity of the document is questioned largely because he only produced it under duress. Now there are those who think Osama bin Laden wasn't even killed, they got the wrong guy, or even that he died years ago and this was just staged to give Obama a boost in the polls. Theories abound and there is no way of proving anything because of this literal reverse version of habeas corpus (you shall NOT have the body!). So there is no body and apparently now there will be no pictures either. The reasons for withholding them them are shaping up to be pretty feeble so far. It's too gross? Give me a break, there's all kinds of gory crap on the internet. It would inflame the anger of his followers? Oh puh-leeze, if shooting their hero in the head and deep-sixing the body isn't enough to piss them off, I'm pretty sure a picture isn't going to make any difference. They will make a martyr of him? News flash: already happened. So what are people to do? Trust but verify? Well, the trust thing has pretty much gone out the window and now the verification is pretty much impossible, so we will be asked to believe on the strength of some piece of paper with DNA test results on it. Damn, back to that trust thingy again.
Well, the walking photo-op is off to Ground Zero now to grandstand and drum up support for the next election - that should hold him over for a while, at least until the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the Victory Mosque. Bush and Clinton were smart enough to decline the offer to appear there with him - Obama has really stepped in it this time and I'm guessing they don't want any of that crap on their shoes. Recasting himself as Dirty Harry will only serve to piss off the Kumbaya crowd that swept him into office, and his commie-lite policies have already pissed off the rational folks. In his desperation to be all things to all people, he ends up being nothing and pleasing no one. Meanwhile Native American groups are offended because the code name used in the bin Laden mission was revealed to be "Geronimo". Maybe he can go give an apology speech about that - I mean, you gotta have priorities, right?
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