Fucking repulsive.
This makes every Republican effort for attacking Obama's new ad a laughingstock. They have no right to do it. Here's Obama's new ad, where he brags about killing Osama bin Laden.
I don't even think it was his capitalizing on bin Laden's death that pisses me off the most. Because Republicans sure as hell aren't giving him any credit for it, and heck, maybe he deserves it a little. What pissed me off was a few other things. First, Clinton says:
"Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and it hadn't been bin Laden. Suppose they'd been captured or killed. The downside would've been horrible for him [Obama]. But he reasons, 'I cannot in good conscience do nothing.' He took the harder, and the more honorable path."
Cue photo of shadowy Obama staring out of a window in careful thought. If there was any doubt Obama was making this about himself, Clinton obliterates it. "Suppose they'd been captured or killed. The downside would've been horrible for him." For him? What about the SEALs who would've been capture or killed? They would've died. That might've been a pretty horrible downside too.
But this absolutely blows my mind.
FUCKING GOOD. Just like Joe Biden, or Obama's Secretary of Defense, who were both against going into Pakistan to get bin Laden. Right? You gonna make an ad attacking them now? What the hell am I even reading? Republicans are the anti-war guys, suddenly? And Democrats think that's bad? Am I in fucking bizarro world? Doesn't anyone fucking notice this?
Look I don't know if the bin Laden hit was the right call or not, but there were legitimate reasons not to do this. If you don't think there were any consequences to this, then you're just ignorant to what's been going on. For one thing, Pakistan is supposed to be our ally. We invaded and launched a military attack on their territory. Yeah they were sheltering bin Laden and they're fucking shitheads, but they're also a foreign government, and if you do things without taking into account what their reaction would be, then you're fucking stupid. There were serious whispers of a military coup afterwards. They cut off ground supplies for NATO troops into Afghanistnan. This was our only land-route into the country. It's honestly a miracle things turned out so well in the end. I'm certainly not complaining about the fucker being fish food, heck go back and read my post about it, I was goddamn ecstatic. But it was still pretty damn reckless, and it demolished U.S.-Pakistani relations. It's hard to even call ourselves "allies" anymore, if that title was ever legitimate in the first place. Our entire foreign policy with them consists of "yeah we're doing this and you can't do anything about it." We just stepped up drone attacks in their country again a couple weeks after they demanded they be stopped. They're saying this violates their sovereignty, which is 100% correct. Small wonder their military is so sympathetic to people who are willing fight invaders who blow up Pakistani homes and families.
Republican Senator Ryan Zinke (who was a SEAL himself) said, "The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable." And he's right. I'm agreeing with a Republican. What I don't understand is why Republicans suddenly hate "war presidents," and why democrats suddenly love them. What the fuck is even happening. Mitt Romney isn't going to let his street cred take this hit though, saying yesterday that "even Jimmy Carter" would've ordered bin Laden's death. YEAH BIG WHOOP, OBAMA. HEY GUYS, REMEMBER HOW JIMMY CARTER IS A FUCKTARD? JIMMY CARTER. If this election is just going to be a dick-waving contest to see who's most enthusiastic about killing people, then it only makes me more glad I'm voting third party. Let's start talking about restoring our civil liberties now that bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is in shambles, guys. Guys?
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