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**hernkingAnank** · 05-04-2011, 12:31 AM

This seems to be the current meme, that it was all about Obama. But it's a bunch of bunk ...

If you look at the transcript of Obama's speech you'll see he used "I' about 10 times in the course of the nearly 10-minute speech. Many referred to what Obama personally did, leading up to and after getting OBL:
"... I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda"

Only the President can give such a direction.
"Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts." Note how he immediately credits his "team' for their actions.

This excerpt contains the most concentrated use of "I" (he said it 3 times here). But he's describing the actions he took as Commander in Chief. That's a one-person gig ...
... last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. I guess it would have gone better for the pundits (polarizing Republicans in hiding) if he had referred to himself as the third person... "the President of the USA did this", "the President called so and so"

Like Jimmy:

05-04-2011, 12:31 AM	#48
hernkingAnank Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	This seems to be the current meme, that it was all about Obama. But it's a bunch of bunk ... If you look at the transcript of Obama's speech you'll see he used "I' about 10 times in the course of the nearly 10-minute speech. Many referred to what Obama personally did, leading up to and after getting OBL: "... I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda" Only the President can give such a direction. "Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts." Note how he immediately credits his "team' for their actions. This excerpt contains the most concentrated use of "I" (he said it 3 times here). But he's describing the actions he took as Commander in Chief. That's a one-person gig ... ... last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. I guess it would have gone better for the pundits (polarizing Republicans in hiding) if he had referred to himself as the third person... "the President of the USA did this", "the President called so and so" Like Jimmy:
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