My mother brought this to my attention last night while watching the coverage on Obama's announcement of Osama bin Laden's death. I normally dismiss my mother's rants, but when I took a closer look, I realized that there was actually truth to what she was saying. And so I ask you all, did anyone notice the news outlets snubbing Obama?
Knowing that our first Black president has obviously prioritized finding and treating the Osama bin Laden situation with care recently, should he not be given a full measure of credit for this coup? News media reported that the President and other high ranking officials have known where Bin Laden was for at least six months, and Obama, himself, gave the final order to terminate the terrorist. Unfortunately, even John King said something to the effect of, "[now we can say that] A president of the United States, who just happens to be Barack Obama, was able to make the announcement that___" ... A president? Other news outlets said things like, "The United States Administration has just done___" and "The US Armed Forces under the auspices of the current Administration has____" Again, is this fair to our president? After all, a president presides over all, am I right? He has the first and final say in everything that our military accomplishes, and yet, he is being given minimal credit here. When there is a negative outcome from one of 'the Administration's" endeavors, Obama is given the full count of hostile reactions, and takes all of the blame, but at least he does it gracefully.
Our president is on his shit, people. Do not let the news media convince you otherwise, and do not let them keep you ignorant of the facts. In fact, now, even Petraeus' recent promotion makes much more sense. He did a kick-ass job in the Mid-East, yes. Perhaps acknowledging that he helped corner and find Bin Laden six months ago would explain his seemingly random promotion. Finally, if you did not notice the treatment of the President in the coverage on Bin Laden's 'termination', I implore you to take a closer look at the language used by even unbiased news media in the near future.
-KD
I agree with you. I've even seen people say "Obama didn't do anything, give the troops your support", in which they choose to forget that Obama had to give the go. If this wasn't the case, they would have went in long before they got any intel on if he was actually in there.
ReplyDeleteRight now, this is his shining light moment, but I wouldn't say he's on his shit. My first comment after the his announcement, to my aunt who was in Afghanistan for 3 years, was hopefully now he feels he has the clout to get things done on his term and be the person we voted for. He ran as progressive when he never was one and now we know he's a moderate. Although Bush wasn't a great President, he had the gall to go at the Dems to get things done. Right now, Obama can do the same thing and I hope he does. It's time to shut everybody up from the right wing extremist to the liberal progressives that feel let down by him.