Bin Laden Dead

[RussellK]

That is how things go. None of these operations are neat and tidy and anyone that thinks they can be needs a reality check. As far as letting the Pakistanis capture or appear to capture Bin Laden: the country is a tinderbox already. I don't see anything to gain by that scenario. Pakistan, a nuclear power, imploding is a worst outcome than what we are dealing with now. What gets me is all one needs to do these days is support the President a little and right away you're assumed to be his cheerleader. If you recall I criticized the seeming indecisiveness of the photos release four pages back. The Bush comment I'll just ignore as pointless noise.

[turk]

It's personal now. /sarc This is about poll numbers. Watch the mood change as the dominos fall.

[RussellK]

It's personal now. /sarc This is about poll numbers. Watch the mood change as the dominos fall.

What his 60 percent approval? Oops careful now. Don't nick yourself shaving.

[turk]

So now you're implying his poll numbers jumped recently to a 60% approval rating. Is there a connection implied to the recent news? If that's the implication what happens when the story fades like the Fukushima tsunami disaster? Or the Gulf Oil Spill, or whatever other endless distractions that come and go, fade from the media spotlight. The realities of economy come back around and people decide with the pocketbook. Maybe that's why we need to keep milking this with endless uncertainty to keep it in the news. That might keep the poll numbers above a negative. My guess is it will fade by midsummer. Am I being a spoil-sport? I'm glad the raid worked. I'm glad Bin Laden is dead. I don't like the politics of Obama milking it for the election. But let's see what happens next. Maybe it's a good foreign policy. I really don't know.

[ruckman101]

If Fox News reports Obama's approval rating now tops 60 percent, it must be true, no implying.

Milking? I certainly haven't gotten that sense. I appreciate Obama's downplay of the event, an event that takes us down to the same level as Osama. Imagine the chest-thumping gloating bravado the shrub would have brought to the table if he had been successful in taking out Osama. We are our own worst enemy.


neal

[turk]

We are our own worst enemy.


neal

I'm shocked you said that /sarc off

[airkooledchris]

nobody here has said anything predicable!

[turk]

Whaddayou trying to say man? Look, Bin Laden had a porn stash. He also had how many wives? And the latest one was like 15 y.o. or some shit. All that is "predicable", but try tellin' it to the Taliban.

[Hippie]

And Charlie Sheen figures into this how?

I know. Let's stick to the important stuff since Sheen affects our lives and well-being so much...according to the media.

[Amskeptic]

This conversation sucks.
Colin

[turk]

Too critical. I would only caution against irrelevant bad humor lacking irony, which I don't see so far. It's a rich topic prone to some digression.

[skin daddio]

This conversation sucks.
Colin

does suck.

[RussellK]

This conversation sucks.
Colin

does suck.

Actually....this board has started to suck. I'm done here. If all we seem capable of are cryptic replies, fabricated discussions and three word declarations I see no more value in spending time here. What started as a nice experience almost five years ago has been allowed to erode to this point. What a shame.

[steve74baywin]

Humans, humans, humans, it just goes to show we have mostly humans here posting.
I see many things here. We have a person or two that is probably just trying to keep a discussion going. Oddly some jump in and think he is mucking the whole thing up, but the discussion kinda ended, but he is trying to keep it going. I see this on several threads.
Discussions seem to be a bit lacking. As usual there are probably different reason for different people as to why they don't post. Maybe some of the trivial arguments backing long time political ideologies finally seem silly. Maybe many are just dumb founded with the world in general. You ought to be if you got some thinking still going on in that brain.
I realize all people are at different levels and stages and unless a person has come across certain info in their life they aren't going to be as far a long as some.
But most of the people who have been engaged in discussions like on here in the past few years must have some major, major doubts about the system we've believed we have, I can not imagine anyone seriously standing behind either Dems or Repubs, or just about anyone even close to being elected. That has to have weighed in on people and given them a general disgust and distaste for discussing things political anymore.
Then there are the few who don't really join in, they just add the same un-thought about repeated propaganda from the news, this adds even more disgust to an already sad state of affairs.
The fun is let out of the bottle once one realizes they have to go to the LIE part of the doublethink in order to hold discussions about the popular world events.

[turk]

2 funny. This discussion was awesome. It shows how much trust there is in the gubmint.