05-04-2011, 07:22 PM
kj wrote:
Fwiw, I'd say the Republican/conservative equivalent is that they are stuck between celebrating OBL's death, and patting Obama on the back. Reconciliation is attributing the success to someone else (bush, cheney, whatever). Either way, Obama just did a very republican/conservative/moderate thing. Again. Status quo. kj.
Mature Republican leaders have had no problem congratulating the Commander in Chief while expressing relief (call it what you want) that OBL is finally dealt with. Sure they want to acknowledge that a lot of intelligence work was done during the Bush years. Fair enough. However, there is no way for them to call Obama's action "Republican" without acknowledging that this successful mission has laid bare once again Bush's foreign policy failures. At this point would it be possible to say the desire to bring OBL to justice wasn't really partisan? Everybody wanted this.