Bin Laden Dead- What Happens Now?

[pbrower2a]

Now there is pretty much zero chance Petraeus runs...but I do think he'd win in a landslide if he choose to challenge Obama now.

Hero generals win landslides for the incumbent President, and only later for themselves.  Lincoln/Grant; FDR/Eisenhower.

The job isn't finished; there is also Ayman al=Zawahiri, the top aide to Lex Luthor ... but I can't see that aide going far and fast until he is put on a military brig flight to the US.

    

[pbrower2a]

What happens now? America gets crucified from Europe and everyone else in the world, because we are just so bad!

Fail. Europe will be just as happy about this as we are, probably.

Also India -- big time. Don't forget India, the world's most populous country.

Osama bin Laden wasn't popular in either China, either.

[pbrower2a]

Obama vs. marginal, non-nutcase Republican, 2012. It would be about a 57-42 popular margin and roughly a replay of Eisenhower 1956:

Obama/Biden     463
Sacrificial Lambs   85

[pbrower2a]

It's a guess.

A great burden has vanished from the American people -- the idea that a horrible person got away with mass murder of Americans. There are more terrorists to capture -- most notably Ayman al-Zawahiri, long-time lieutenant of Usama bin Laden.

The contrast between President Obama and his predecessor becomes obvious. Face it: if Dubya could be elected when Usama bin Laden was on the loose, what does that say about President Obama? Sure, there is the economy, and that can now be the focus of political debates.  

[pbrower2a]

Obama's approval will be VERY high tommorow

I think he hurt himself waiting THIS long though to announce (not that his poll numbers will drop, but they won't be as high as they could have been), fox got it first. It's 45 minutes late, he lost the umph of announcing it as President.

What I'd really love to see is Petraeus' approvals

This is hilarious. Give it up.

I don't think he can help himself.

I'm serious. Obama called the meeting at 8:30, waited an hour, by then the entire world knew. NO. I'm NOT saying his approvals will drop. I think he'll be lucky to see a 60% approvals at the highest instead of something greater. It was a terrible decision to wait when the leader of the nation who ordered the assault could have stated that Osama Bin Laden was dead when everyone was thinking it was going to be about Libya.

Does anyone notice the near-absence of grandstanding by this President? The time at which he announced the demise of Usama bin Laden was near midnight on Sunday in the Eastern Time Zone. It was good timing for the West Coast... but considering where the Twin Towers used to be, where the Pentagon is,  and where the commandeered flights came from, such could only have been bad timing for getting the point out. Many people didn;t find out until Monday morning.

Of course, success of the operation mattered far more than the President getting all of the credit possible.   

[pbrower2a]

Anyway, the OBL kill is what VPB might call a BFD.

You use more acronyms in one sentence than many Washingtonians here.  

So what does VPB and BFD stand for?  

I'm guessing Vice President Biden.. Not sure about BFD

Right on the first. The second is Big Fcuking Deal".