Conservatives/Republicans really do Hate Obama

[W.E.B. Du Bois]

I already know the reaction of the mainstream media and the left to the killing of Osama Bin Laden: celebratory and in awe. What made me curious was how the right would react and whether they would attack Obama while discussing the news or something like that.

So I went to several prominent conservative/Republican blogs/websites including:

DrudgeReport
Townhall.com
Redstate.com

I might even check into Hannity and O'Reilly later today or perhaps Fox News at mid day just to see how they spin the story.

There was only minor signs of attacking Obama on Drudge and Townhall with Drudge reporting that a senator had complaints that Osama was buried at sea, and an article in Townhall laughing about how someone on MSNBC accidentally called Obama Osama. On Redstate we got a bit more of the Obama loathing:

Posting Obama's speech late last night, one of the main bloggers opined:

redstate.com/aglanon/2011/05/02/video-obama-speech-on-death-of-bin-laden/

Posted by Ben Howe

Monday, May 2nd at 12:56AM EDT
19 Comments

I’m sure someone will have a breakdown of the amount of self congratulation in this speech, but tonight let’s just be happy that Osama Bin Laden has already found out that there aren’t going to be any virgins.

There you have it, Obama kills Osama Bin Laden and STILL gets criticized by the right. What this conservative is criticizing for, he doesn't even go into detail. No specifics on exactly what parts of Obama's announcement are "self congratulation" just suggesting that it is, with no proof, as usual.

I'm not going to say that all Republicans and conservatives are like this, but the base of the GOP and many conservatives are. You just can't win with these people. Nothing a Democrat can do will ever satisfy them or gain the credit it deserves.


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[W.E.B. Du Bois]

From Limbaugh:

You heard that right: “Thank God for President Obama,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Monday afternoon. Limbaugh credited the president with the strategy that led to the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “Ladies and gentlemen, we need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama,” Limbaugh said Monday afternoon at the start of his show. “President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out.”

While military experts wanted to bomb the Pakistani mansion where bin Laden was hiding, Limbaugh said, Obama may have “single-handedly [come] up with the technique” of attacking the target at the ground level. He credited the president with much more military prowess than Obama critics usually attribute to the president.

“President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces,” he said. “No one else thought of that…. Not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using SEAL Team 6 or any Special Forces.”

But even while crediting Obama, Limbaugh guarded against being too generous to the president. Analysts and Democrats suggesting that Obama has locked up reelection by overseeing the killing of bin Laden are engaged in “nothing more than P.R.,” he said.

I didn't expect that from Limbaugh. I will hold fire against him in my post as well.

[W.E.B. Du Bois]

I watched the first 7 minutes of the O'Reilly Factor; no real criticism of Obama. First he gave a straight up military analysis and then he started going into foreign policy and his foolish opinion of "the Muslim problem" which sounds pretty damn near "the Jewish Problem" that Hitler infamously used.

In any case, I have to say that I do respect O'Reilly's ability to speak so clearly and simply. That really is his greatest asset. Everything is so simple with O'Reilly. When you oversimplify things like that, it really gets through to the average people, especially people without college education, and you can just start yelling and moaning over people when they try to interject the complexities of real life.


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[W.E.B. Du Bois]

I was wrong about Limbaugh, he was being sarcastic in his praise of Obama.

politico.com/news/stories/0511/54122.html#ixzz1LGGjpdaZ

Limbaugh spent the next five minutes laying on more and more about Obama’s being “single-handedly” responsible for the military and intelligence strategy that was executed over the weekend.

Critics quickly attacked Limbaugh for his sarcasm, which Limbaugh soon admitted.

I didn't know he had the intelligence to do sarcasm.