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Monday, April 30, 2012
Election 2012 John McCain Mad as Hell That Barack Obama Caught Osama bin Laden
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:14 PM
The alternate headline for this post is "Angry Old Man Embarks on Vicious Letter-Writing Campaign."
Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. This is the same President who once criticized Hillary Clinton for invoking bin Laden 'to score political points.'...No one disputes that the President deserves credit for ordering the raid, but to politicize it in this way is the height of hypocrisy...it is no wonder why President Obama is shamelessly turning the one decision he got right into a pathetic political act of self-congratulation.
Holy shit. John McCain sure does have a temper on him. Looks like Republicans are going all in on these claims that a president should never politicize his foreign-policy achievements or prey on his opponent's perceived foreign policy weaknesses. Like, say, this guy, or this guy:
or this guy:
Presidents and presidential candidates have always done this. The real outrage with the Romney camp is that it's not a Republican boasting about his accomplishments.
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