Remember that pic of Obama, Hilary, and others watching the Bin Laden raid live?

[Cyrano]

Seal Team Six had cameras on their helmets and the entire operation was being transmitted live to the White House, the Pentagon, etc.

Obama fully understood the critical nature of what he was watching unfold. He knew that Bin Laden might not even be there. He knew that one helicopter was already down and the success of the operation was in question. He totally grasped the situation he had put himself into by ordering the mission to proceed. And he absolutely knew that he was putting the lives of military men in danger based on intelligence that could not be fully confirmed. But he sat there and watched the raid unfold. One can only imagine what might have been going through his mind.

Barack Obama was a thoughtful man with a set of steel balls.

Donald Trump is a thoughtless man who throws childless insults from a safe distance. He was probably on the golf course when the military nailed the "terrorist of the day."

Did he know this raid was in progress? Did he know who the target was? Did he ever issue any order for the operation to proceed? Who knows? But once this bad guy was dead, Trump couldn't get in front of the cameras fast enough.

Trump takes verbal shots at Obama on a daily (hourly?) basis. How dare general bone spurs throw insults at a man whose stature and courage he will never match.

Donald, Obama has too much class to ever say it. But fuck you.

[Baked Potato]

1. Hear! Hear!

Undignified wanna be he is.

[Ohiogal]

2. What a great post

You nailed it

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I wish I could "REC" more than once.

[malaise]

4. The Con even had the temerity to suggest that this raid was bigger

than Bin Laden who only took down the World Trade Center.
The fucker is beyond sick because he failed to mention the attack on the Pentagon

[BumRushDaShow]

5. And as a reminder, this is what we're talking about

[MyOwnPeace]

6. And yes,

didn't PRESIDENT OBAMA rush out of there and claim what a wonderful job he had done in getting him killed - not to mention how he went on and on about how "W" had been such a failure and how fortunate we are to have such a brilliant mind leading us.
OK, so he forgot to have all of the people put on their best uniforms and he forgot his tan suit, but still, you get the idea.......

[Skidmore]

8. You can see the intensity and worry

on their faces.

[Cyrano]

15. This photo is incredible. It instantly compares Trump to the best and brightest

[Shoonra]

7. The Obama picture showed ....

The Obama picture showed the Secretary of State and, standing in the background, several others. Trump's picture was taken hours after Bagdadi's alleged death and we see the chosen few permitted to be there omits several people that some of us would have thought were crucial to the event. Significantly, no women in the Trump photo.

[paleotn]

9. It very well might not be Baghdadi

The intelligence was still being developed when they were ordered to start extracting assets. It was either go now and possibly get him or run the risk of letting him go due to shithead’s idiotic pullout. If it is Baghdadi, then shithead backed into it. If it’s not him, shithead will claim it is or blame the military for fucking up. Either way it still means shithead is just that. A shithead.

[lutherj]

10. There have been news reports that the ic withholds sensitive information from Trump for

fear he might say something stupid publicly or leak it to the Russians. I doubt he new about the raid until after the fact.

[crickets]

12. I think the military kept it secret from him

for months while they planned and set it up. There is no way he could have kept his flabby mouth shut.

It's frightening that Congress' gang of 8 was also kept in the dark, at least most of them, until it was over.

An unsupervised military, no matter how beneficial or successful this raid was, bothers me.

[crickets]

11. The contrast is stunning. Excellent post. nt

[Cyrano]

13. Thank you so much. This Obama/Trump contrast is mind blowing.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. I'm getting worried about the election.

The cognitive dissonance in the trump supporters hasn't moved a millimeter. Not even with billions lost and jobs destroyed on the tariff war. Nothing shakes these people. To them, this raid was a perfectly executed raid carried out by god-emperor trump himself, and if you point out Obama's administration oversaw the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, they laugh.

They fucking laugh.


These people are not living in the same reality we are.
And I am getting very worried.

[Cyrano]

17. Yep. At some point, the definition of "reality" changed

Millions of Trump voters are clueless to the fact that, by backing him, they are helping to destroy American democracy. But they view themselves as the "true patriots."

I don't know if there's a cure for this sickness.

[question everything]

16. The Whiny Donny picture is so obviously posed

[NewJeffCT]

18. Can we stop using "balls" as a symbol of bravery?

why can't we say "steel spine" or "steel stomach" or "nerves of steel" instead of Balls? Why is something uniquely male associated with bravery/toughness?




(Yes, I know Betty White wasn't the one that originally said the above, but it fits with her...)