Political BS at its finest!

VaticanAssassin

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Wow.....Serioulsy? Obama is saying Mitt would have not made the call to get OBL.......

President Obama's campaign is using Bill Clinton to argue Mitt Romney would not have launched the raid to capture Osama bin Laden last year.
The argument is being made to coincide with the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death.In extended, previously unreleased footage taken from an interview with the former president for the 17-minute pro-Obama film "The Road We've Traveled," the campaign suggests that the presumptive GOP nominee would not have ordered the mission to kill bin Laden.
“[Obama] took the harder, and the more honorable path,” Clinton said in the interview, describing the behind-the-scenes process that went into the decision to okay the raid. "He had to decide. And that's what you hire the president to do. You hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it."
"The commander-in-chief gets one chance to make the right decision," reads the text in the video. It goes on to ask: "What path would Mitt Romney have taken. The campaign suggests Romney would not have ordered the raid by pointing to a 2007 interview with The Associated Press in which Romney said: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."

But the truth is, Obama did not even make the fucking call.......


Today, Time magazine got hold of a memo written by then-CIA head Leon Panetta after he received orders from Barack Obama’s team to greenlight the bin Laden mission. Here’s the text, which summarized the situation:
Received phone call from Tom Donilon who stated that the President made a decision with regard to AC1 [Abbottabad Compound 1]. The decision is to proceed with the assault.
The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven’s hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out. Those instructions were conveyed to Admiral McRaven at approximately 10:45 am.
This, of course, was the famed “gutsy call.” Here’s what Tom Hanks narrated in Obama’s campaign film, “The Road We’ve Traveled”:
HANKS: Intelligence reports locating Osama Bin Laden were promising, but inconclusive, and there was internal debate as to what the President should do.
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: We sat down in the Situation Room, the entire national security apparatus was in that room, and the President turns to every principal in the room, every secretary, “What do you recommend I do?” And they say, “Well, forty-nine percent chance he’s there, fifty-one … it’s a close call, Mr. President.” As he walked out the room, it dawned on me, he’s all alone. This is his decision. If he was wrong, his Presidency was done. Over.

Only the memo doesn’t show a gutsy call. It doesn’t show a president willing to take the blame for a mission gone wrong. It shows a CYA maneuver by the White House
 
so you're saying its unfair to say Romney wouldnt have done something Obama did

but somehow it is fair to say Obama didnt actually do anything


yup, political BS at it's finest
 
so you're saying its unfair to say Romney wouldnt have done something Obama did

but somehow it is fair to say Obama didnt actually do anything (did not do something the way he said he did)
yup, political BS at it's finest

Nope...it is pretty much Time saying that;

Only the memo doesn’t show a gutsy call. It doesn’t show a president willing to take the blame for a mission gone wrong. It shows a CYA maneuver by the White House

But hey, it is ok. Reading is hard.
 
you spin me right round baby right around


meme's are great when they support your political idealogy huh?
 
you spin me right round baby right around


meme's are great when they support your political idealogy huh?

So you say spin...but you are the one who said:

fair to say Obama didn't actually do anything

When no one actually said that. Please re read.

Then the rest of what you spewed actual says nothing nor is relevant to the points.

I am not above being wrong, so if you have something logical to say, please take your time and type it out. If it actually makes sense I will understand it and may even agree.........
 
Sorry, I just can't get past the irony of using Clinton to make the case that Romney wouldn't have pulled the trigger on bin Laden. I'll try to get past that part again later.

Ishmael
 
I read this very carefully, and what I got out of it was the following: the right fringe is worried Bin Laden's death will help Obama get a 2nd term.

I'd be worried, too. :cool:
 
Why would you worry about something you can't stop instead of just bracing for it?
 
Re: What’s Bill Clinton Doing?


By Mark Steyn

April 27, 2012 3:13 P.M.



Jonah, aside from the unseemliness of a former president voicing that ad insinuating Romney wouldn’t have killed Osama bin Laden, what about the ridiculousness of getting this particular former president to do it? Throughout the Nineties, bin Laden attacked US targets – military housing, ships, embassies – and Bill Clinton refused to respond. In 2000, after 17 sailors were killed on the USS Cole, Clinton’s Defense Secretary Bill Cohen said the attack “was not sufficiently provocative” to warrant a response.

You’ll have to do better than that, Osama! So he did.

And now Clinton asks us to take his word on the awesome lonely burden of being “the decider”…
 
^^^^ So Obama gave the orders but like anybody with half a brain would have assumed Obama wasn't actually acting as feild commander and handling the minute by minute operations that he'd be grossly unqualified to handle? Color me shocked.

Get back to me when you find proof that the military found Osama, went in and killed him, and then afterwards told Obama to either own it or bury it.
 
A memo that we aren't allowed to see, is reported on by an organization known for it's dishonesty considered a "hey if something changes you check in" order as wiggle room? C'mon.

There is nothing Obama could possibly have done to avoid blame had this gone south. Not a thing.
 
So Clinton is saying Mitt wouldnt have done something that most right winger dispute Obama ever did ...

very news worthy.
 
You're link is from Breitbart. I didn't bother hunting down the origins of it, it's really not worth my time. Breitbart=Bullshit.
 
Was he buried in a pasture?

If so, eventually.

On a serious note why isn't being dead slowing this asshole down at least a little? At this point when I see him and Rush Limbaugh hosting the RNC at Cochella I'm gonna call bullshit on another person I don't think is really dead.
 
Breitbart is breaking the story that Time has the memo in it's possession. There's nothing wrong with Breitbart, you libs hate him because he calls you into account. Like Drudge did Clinton.

No no. People hate Brietbart because he's as dishonest as they come.
 
No no. People hate Brietbart because he's as dishonest as they come.

Small mind. *shrug*

The source is immaterial, all that counts are the facts. Either Time has the memo or they don't. If they don't then Breitbart is full of shit. But I do recall that it was the Enquirer, which in my opinion doesn't even qualify as emergency ass wipe, that broke the story of Edwards mistress. The truth can emerge from the most unlikely of sources.

Ishmael
 
Small mind. *shrug*

The source is immaterial, all that counts are the facts. Either Time has the memo or they don't. If they don't then Breitbart is full of shit. But I do recall that it was the Enquirer, which in my opinion doesn't even qualify as emergency ass wipe, that broke the story of Edwards mistress. The truth can emerge from the most unlikely of sources.

Ishmael

The Enquirer won a Pulitzer, ya big dummy.
 
Yeah, breaking the ACORN scandal, union corruption, and the Weiner's bullshit was dishonest.:rolleyes:

Which ACORN scandal? The one where it was found that they were reporting bad names that had been registered for voting or the one where O'keefe pieced together a video so blatantly false that I can't believe anybody bought it? Selective editting of videos to make a woman appear racist. Yes the man was as dishonest as can be.
 
Which ACORN scandal? The one where it was found that they were reporting bad names that had been registered for voting or the one where O'keefe pieced together a video so blatantly false that I can't believe anybody bought it? Selective editting of videos to make a woman appear racist. Yes the man was as dishonest as can be.


Bravo, bravo. *clap, clap*

The editing was so good that the employees were fired, congress defunded them, the state chapters ceased operations, and re-organized under new names.

Buddy, editing of that caliber deserves an Emmy.

Ishmael
 
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