"Osama bin Laden will never walk on this earth again" is the rhetoric we want to represent us?

[JoePhilly]

70. Yes.

The GOP uses that kind of rhetoric to claim that Democrats are totally and completely unwilling to take action when action is warranted.

A simple example

This is a Karl Rove quote ... "Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. (Conservatives) saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

So the question at hand is "Are democrats afraid to take action, even when it is warranted?"

The answer to that question is no, but we are far more circumspect than the GOP is, or ever will be.

Killing OBL proves that. Bush should have captured or killed OBL, and the Al Qaeda leadership immediately following 9/11 . But he got distracted, and stumbled America into a pointless mess in Iraq.

Obama deserves credit for doing what should have been done much earlier.

So it isn't simply about "taking away one of their issues", its about demonstrating that Obama is not afraid to take action when action its warranted, and he's doing so in a far more thoughtful and circumspect fashion than anyone in the GOP would ever do.