Can a President Get Some Love?
Is it just me, or does it seem like every positive achievement that President Obama makes just seems to drive his most vocal and passionate detractors further and further “off the deep end”? The recent elimination of Osama Bin Laden by our military (Seal Team 6 in particular), that occurred under the current administration, has got the “anti-Obama”
crowd so flustered that they are contradicting themselves. When President Obama accurately pointed out that our current economic crisis began under President Bush’s administration, many Republicans scolded Obama for trying to use Bush a scapegoat, rather than take full responsibility for the economic woes that were taking place on President Obama’s watch. Yet, when Osama Bin Laden was killed by American military forces, while President Obama was Commander-In-Chief of those forces, a legion of GOP talking heads couldn’t wait to talk about how all Obama did was capitalize on intelligence, and military provisions that President Bush had put in place. I’m confounded by the response by many on the right to the news of Bin Laden’s death, especially when they have been so vehement in their assertion that a sitting President is ultimately responsible for both the failures and successes that occur while he is office. Recently, right-wing talk radio juggernaut, Rush Limbaugh uttered a sentence that I never thought I would live to see come out of his mouth: “Thank God for President Obama”. I was actually about to give ol’ Rush “his props” for humbling himself enough to give President Obama credit for doing something positive until he launched into a rant full of backhanded compliments and facetious hyperbole that made it clear that made it clear, at least to me, that he believed Obama should receive little or no credit for an event that symbolized the ultimate retribution against an enemy who has ordered the killing of Americans, and that provided a much needed sense of closure for the victims and first responders of “9/11″. You can watch the video and decide for yourself, but I think this diatribe proves that Limbaugh’s beef with Obama is about something deeper than just policy.
