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Vice President Joe Biden says that President Obama put his job on the line when he authorized the covert raid into Pakistan last year to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
This guys got a backbone like a ramrod, Biden told a crowd of campaign donors in Washington, D.C., Monday night. He said, Go, knowing his presidency was on the line. Had he failed in that audacious mission, he wouldve been a one-term president. /snip
In a forthcoming Obama campaign documentary on the presidents first term, Biden and former President Bill Clinton both reflect on the bin Laden raid, hailing it as a tough decision.
He took the harder and more honorable path, Clinton says in an excerpt of The Road Weve Traveled released Monday. When I saw what had happened, I thought to myself, I hope thats the call I would have made. /snip
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I imagine the documentary will be full of praise and essentially a campaign commercial, which is great, but I hate how the news services presented the headline this way. I expect a lot of "Did Biden say the wrong thing about Obama being a One Term President?"
Z_I_Peevey
(2,783 posts)on the part of the ABC news headline writer to make that Biden quote into a negative, but by God he or she strove mightily and got the job done.
Thanks, ridiculous media, for never disappointing.
gateley
(62,683 posts)highlighted that bit. Pisses me off.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)there will always be people who will find fault with what was said. I think it is a very powerful portrayal of a president, but those who hate him will see what they wish.
gateley
(62,683 posts)strength to make such a momentous move and decision, putting the welfare of the country ahead of his political future.
These headlines (and all the news agencies pretty much presented their headlines the same way) make it seem like this was the ONLY thing that could keep Obama in office, that his future as POTUS was pretty shaky and this would have been the last straw.
But as I said, I've been known to overreact on what I think is less than stellar Biden reporting. I haven't heard a thing about it on TV yet this morning, and I thought, when I read this, it would be the gossip of the day.
WingDinger
(3,690 posts)Already, the money men are abandoning Obama. this will free him from their sway. With a fresh load of political capital, Obama will be fearsome. If Rethugs LOOSE the House, watch out. Calls for second amendment remedies will be forthcoming.
Hey, that would make a good bumper sticker. Republicans laughed when we lost our houses. Lets show them what losing the HOUSE feels like.
As for Biden, he already said he was against the plan. Thus, he thought the threat of losing the second term was too much price to bear. He is in a tiny sense, giving Obama a backhanded compliment. In so doing, shows the genuineness of Biden's assessment. Obama chose the most dangerous clinical act. Losing a heli in the process. No men killed.
That is true heroism.
gateley
(62,683 posts)right and he was wrong. I respect Biden immeasurably.
And I stand in awe of Obama's strength in making that tough, tough call.
Drale
(7,932 posts)we would have never heard about it, so it would not have mattered.
gateley
(62,683 posts)that the truth always finds its way to the surface, but there are bound to be countless operations of which we're unaware -- successful or not.
Until the participants write their memoirs a few years later.
Swede
(33,282 posts)nt
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)America, fuck yeah!
Who needs those quaint old documents, anyway?
I mean, besides me, and my irrational attachment to a bunch of meaningless oaths and laws in our brave new world where with the ordering of a raid or the push of a button we make someone judge, jury and executioner. It's so much more efficient and streamlined, and the envy of every civilized nation on the planet. And our victims are all very, very bad people. Truly.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Obama is lucky as well as good.