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  • Spike
    3:58pm - Wed May 02nd, 2012
    Not the smartest reply by Bob Beckel
    So Bob Beckel believes the decision by Obama to go after Bin Laden was the "most difficult decision any President has ever made." Obama SHOULD brag because nobody else would have made the same decision if they were President.

    Obama's poll numbers were already down the tubes at that time and Obama had absolutely nothing to lose politically if the mission failed. Since getting re-election IS Obama's first priority, making the decision to go after Obama was actually the EASIEST he ever had to make, not the hardest.

    John McCain said it best. "real heroes don't brag".

    Beckel also said that to criticize Obama for bragging and going to Afghanistan to take people's mind off the fact that he bragged because it was not well received is "d__b politics by an even 'd__ber party'".

    Well, Beckel for someone who is not "d__b" that wasn't exactly the "smartest" thing in the world you ever said. Even Democrats, including Obama's own chief of staff is criticizing Obama for these actions. Are they also "d__b"?
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