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Is Bin Laden Decision a Presidential Campaign Issue?

LPH

LPH

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The past few days has seen the media playing soundbites of politicians claiming the President is using the death of Bin Laden as a campaign issue.Friday's release of the President's campaign video includes a piece about the decision to raid Bin Laden's compound. John McCain called the ad a “Shameless End-Zone Dance to Help Himself get Re-Elected.”

By Monday morning, Mitt Romney replied to a question about the Bin Laden Raid. According to the video snippet, while in New Hampshire Mitt Romney quipped, "Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order." Later in the day, President Obama replied, "I'd just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out Bin Laden," Obama said. "I said that I'd go after Bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they'd do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it."

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LPH

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Robert Heiny

Robert Heiny

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Come on, former President Clinton and other upstaging political types, grow up. You sound like Henny Pennies late to the show. So, with respect to you and the office of President, but not your message, I'll mention in response to you lecturing me: What's done is done. Saying that fixed everything, didn't it? No, I doubt it!

Please just stop consuming so much cable and air time with your speeches. Or if you must talk to us so much, give us voters your specific plans to support us to get through today and tomorrow (literally). Then, we can consider how your plans work for each of us now, not a decade later. We' gone to school and more than 70 percent of us graduated 12th grade and most of us have some post high school schooling during the past 50 years. We know of the almost geometric decreasing likelihood of your administration's and campaign projections turning into reality even out a year.

So, please, do for your self what you promised to do to us. If you want to make our life better (whatever that means!) change your attention to today and maybe a little about tomorrow.

Or have I missed your point?
 
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