“In Bin Laden Announcement, Echoes of 2007 Obama Speech,” declared the headline in the New York Times. It’s difficult to find a newspaper that has demonstrated a worse pro-Obama and anti-Bush bias than the New York Times, especially when dealing with the War on Terror. And so, I expected a headline like this in the Times. When I searched Google this morning, looking for a text of President Obama’s statement on the death of Osama bin Laden, the Times headline was the first thing that popped up.
That’s too bad. A better banner would have been, “In Bin Laden Announcement, Echoes of 2001 Bush Speech.” That’s what I immediately thought when I heard the stunning statement by President Obama announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden. To wit, President Obama stated:
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden….
The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens…Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al-Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done…
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
For President Obama, it was a refreshing and surprising expression of American exceptionalism.
More than that, President Obama’s words read like a punctuation, an exclamation point, on what President George W. Bush had said on September 14, 2001, during an unforgettable 9/11 memorial service at the majestic National Cathedral. Bush himself had organized the service. He picked the music, selected the speakers, and carefully chose the words he delivered that afternoon.
Bush had declared the day a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. In preparing for his speech, he literally prayed that he could rise to the occasion and deliver his talk meaningfully in keeping with the somberness of the occasion. “I prayed a lot before the speech,” he later told reporter Bill Sammon, “because I felt like it was a moment where I needed, well, frankly, for the good Lord to shine through.”
Everyone in elite Washington was there: Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford sat in the third pew, as did Al Gore. The Clinton family sat in the front pew. An ailing Billy Graham, in a poignant display, struggled to address those gathered. President Bush approached the platform at 1:00 PM. He stated:
We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss, and today we express our nation’s sorrow. We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead and for those who love them.
On Tuesday our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We have seen the images of fire and ashes and bent steel. Now come the names, the list of casualties we are only beginning to read….
Just three days removed from these events, Americans do not yet have the distance of history. But our responsibility to history is already clear: To answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.
War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.
Note that last word, “choosing.” Indeed, here is where both President Bush and President Obama—not to mention America and history—found common ground: This war, and that awful attack on September 11, 2001, crafted by the diabolical Osama bin Laden, had not been our choice. Both Bush and Obama pledged that justice against Osama would come at a time of our choosing.
That time arrived, at long last, on May 1, 2011. Justice, indeed, has been done, and on America’s terms, not Osama bin Laden’s.
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Thank you President Bush !!
Even today, President Bush is still showing his stately stature by staying in the background, but I am sure he still greives for those injuries sustained and the lives lost. He and Barbara were great and humble leaders!
Now Obozo our Liar in chief is violating the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, that the Government was NOT to establish a religion…It is being done!!! Please see this video for proof!! You have to fix the (dot)!! http://www.youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ErzxOz3Dzv8&am…
You can leave the real dot in place. They don't block it. I have posted direct links many times.
THEY COULD HAVE BEEN HUMBLE BUT GREAT? I THINK YOU WENT TOO FAR
This is getting tired news quickly with Obama milking this for all he can get which has not resulted in
much of a bounce at all.
both the Times and obama ought to be put out to pasture
AMEN to that!!! a very dry and burning pasture!!
we cannot see USAMA dead..per B.O. but we had to put up with so many U.S. soldiers deaths, hanginds from bridges etc….sick
Colin Powell sucks!
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers on this site!
All of you are truly special!
I know i am special to my four year old daughter & i would change nothing in my life when it comes to her even though it is difficult at times being a widow & single parent.
You 1/2 white piece of Goat Dung, You didn't do a Fvcken thing! Navy SEAL'S Did what no one else could and YOU did everything to make sure that did NOT happen! Even a piece of Crap should have kept their Mouth Zipped and not said a thing. Then you crap head, turned your 1/2 white Back, on someone that lost FAMILY at (911)! Will keep having your, "DOG" HOLDER go after the men that were CLEARED from wrong doing. But won't go after the Fvcken "New Black Panther's"! You are one sorry Cocksucker!
Ridiculoust! Dork! James McPherson you can not produce any proof that i have advocated such!
The last thing i would ever want is for Obama to be assassinated & then to have the Liberals & Democrats in addition to a majority of blacks making him into a martyr.
Further your insulting Up Side Down Jack is without any merit. If you review his post you will find that the majority of it is in fact actual.
James why do you wear that dorky ball cap?
You look like Elmer Fudd in it!
You're lying again, Cougar, as anyone who cares can see by following this thread: http://www.westernjournalism.com/susan-daniels-ex…
Particularly noteworthy, perhaps: After someone criticizes Vicky for " rooting for the terrorists and hoping for the death of a duly elected president," your exact response was: "Dang right! I think Vicky deserves a award!"
Ridiculous! James McPherson you can not produce any proof that i nor Vicky have advocated such! James you are just a habitual liar? Keep up the good work at discrediting you & your Obama believers.
Dork!
You're lying again, Cougar, as anyone who cares can see by following this thread: http://www.westernjournalism.com/susan-daniels-ex….
Particularly noteworthy, perhaps: After someone criticizes Vicky for " rooting for the terrorists and hoping for the death of a duly elected president," your exact response was: "Dang right! I think Vicky deserves a award!"
Ridiculous! James McPherson you can not produce any proof that i nor Vicky have advocated such! James you are just a habitual liar? Keep up the good work at discrediting you & your Obama believers.
See above your latest dumb comment.
Ridiculous! James McPherson you can not produce any proof that i nor Vicky have advocated such! James you are just a habitual liar? Keep up the good work at discrediting you & your Obama believers.
The only one of us here making dumb comments is none other than you James! What a dork you are!
Alright Malloy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r9KpmkJr74
And keep it up Bill!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKZmZ47h9A
W.J HAS GOT MORE CREDITABILITY IN ONE LITTLE FINGER THAN YOU WILL E3VER HAVE AT ANY TIME ANYWHERE. SORRY TO BREAK THE BAD NEWS BUT SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT
I THINK JAMES WILL KNOW THE ABOVE COMMENT IS FOR HIM BUT JUST IN CASE HE PROBABLY ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE IT OUT, ITS FOR YOU JAMES
Rumor has it that obama had all of the intel back on October of last year on where bin ladin was housed up. And, george Bush would have gone in immediately and got the job done if the intel was available while he was in office. Obama only gave the go ahead while he ran around with a load in his pants. now he is taking all the credit for having done NOTHING. What has he told his muslim buddies after bin laden.? will he go over there and kiss more arab hands and asses while visiting mosques?George Bush, you did us proud. obama is a phony, good for nothing that really knows nothing about the military. and last, please keep his old lady out of the media as she makes me sick
"will he go over there and kiss more arab"
Bush, you mean? http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bush+kissing+…
Obama James! A second grader would understand who Buckaroo was referring to. Oh gee i forgot that you are not a second grader but simply a mentally retarded Liberal, Democrat & Communist!
Dork!
Clueless again, Cougar? Try reading it again. Or not. I'm sure Buckie got it, even if you didn't.
James you have not a clue! If only you could remove your brain to examine it only then would you understand why i call you a mental retard constantly.
Just a Quick question for you Mr McPherson, That is if you don't mind? How long have you been a Follower of Karl Marx? If I remember right you are a writer/Professor? If so, I now understand why there is So many of our Children thinking that This Government can only be better if, and only if we start following MARX! You sir, are a pathetic piece of Communist Crap. Please remove yourself to a Country that you will I'm sure be more Comfortable in. Like CUBA!
Karl Marx, no. Groucho Marx, yes. Thanks for asking.
And by the way, though the few American Marxists left in America likely are at universities, there aren't many true Marxists left anywhere. And besides, professors don't have much effect on what "children," or even young adults, think–their parents do most of that long before we ever meet them.
And unless you're willing to give up your Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and farm subsidies, you're at least as much of a Communist as I am, jack.
Mr McPherson, Nice of you to call me a Communist, because I have PAYED (having my money TAKEN) from me into a (Service) that has been BROKE from DAY ONE! Used as a Ponzie for the Federal Government to SUCK the Money from People, (for there own good) Because "WE" are to Stupid! To take care of ourselves! It was not BY MY choosing, but by the People before me, and you also, unless your VERY OLD! All the Social Program's that the Federal Government, has done over the last 100 +/- year's have done nothing more than Cheapened our lifes, destroyed our Family's,taken our Children away from the Family and Put them in the Arm's of the Government, to Raze. You have from the First Grade in School taught our Children that the Founding FATHER'S were nothing but a Bunch of Hateful old WHITE MEN. Owner's of SLAVES, and Trader's of Slaves! America, never did anything that the Communist, did not hate. And about every TEACHER I had, and some that I did not have, and one or two that is in "my" Family ALL were or ARE FVCKEN COMMUNIST! Love Uncle Joe, And his Brother in Socialism good old Karl! But then again, I'm sure that you voted for Jimmy the Pea Nut Farmer, who is sucking the Back end of every Communist he can find in SA! Then to make sure that you did not fall down you gave us the like's of Bill "the FIRST" black Pres, who like's to have Sex with THAT Woman! not Hillary! Then for 8 years did everything you could to undermine GWB. He did by the way make MANY BAD CALL'S! Then you gave America, a 1/2 white guy, who can't prove where he was Born. But can Prove that his FATHER WAS NOT an AMERICAN! Who through his "mother" under the Bus because SHE was WHITE! But he could not handle being just 1/2 black, any more than he can handle being 1/2 white! Married a Woman that has NEVER been Proud of being an AMERICAN! Has Friend's that have, and say that they did not do enough to KILL Police Officer's, Bomb Building's Kidnap and Rob Bank's to "Overthrow" the America, I fought for (USN 1964/67). Has a AG that will not do his job, a Tax Cheat, that knows his Job! And you wonder if, because I payed into and now might receive Social Security or some other Federal Government MONEY, that I might also be LIKE YOU! A COMMUNIST!
I will GO to WAR again, to DEFEAT, all of you FVCKEN COMMUNIST! I will not lose a min of sleep, but I will Hunt everyone of the Party that you stand for Down and see that you and your kind Swim with the Goat Fvcken Rag Head, the 1/2 white piece of Dog Crap said was just Killed! Your kind have no idea the hell that is coming! You can Change your way's, but I don't think you will. I feel sorry that you have found no Happiness in AMERICA! I do hope yo will in your next life!
James we all know that you are a Communist so why try to accuse Upside Down Jack of being such? Do you have any facts or proof? Of course you do not! Typical for you James.
You are just a liar & Dork!
Clueless again, Cougar? Try reading it again. Or not. I'm sure Jackie got it, even if you didn't.
James you are just confused as usual! Dumb! Stupid! Ignorant! Retard! Mentally challenged one! Dork!