Osama bin Laden dead (Official)

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Just heard this on CNN and FOX ... I'm guessing something with Gaddafi.

EDIT: MSNBC, not CNN.

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15 minute address.

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Blitzer just said it concerns the world, not just the U.S.

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Geraldo Rivera just made a wild guess - perhaps it's Bin Laden?

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Confirming Bin Laden is dead on FOX

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MSNBC is now saying it's a development dealing with Bin Laden, but has not said he's dead.

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Confirming Bin Laden is dead on FOX

Geraldo Rivera is terrible.  Hopefully, this announcement doesn't end up like Al Capone's vault.

If we had a like button, I'd be using it now.

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Well, if this turns out to be true, FOX will get to claim they announced it first of the networks.

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Can Obama beat Bush Jr.'s 92%? 

It depends how he died.  If WE did it intentionally, I think he's got a good chance.  If we didn't kill him or it wasn't intentional (we targetted a terror cell and got him not knowing he was there), he'll get a HUGE spike, but not that high.

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FOX News twitter "Pentagon correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that #Osama bin Laden was killed by a U.S. bomb"

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Can Obama beat Bush Jr.'s 92%? 

It depends how he died.  If WE did it intentionally, I think he's got a good chance.  If we didn't kill him or it wasn't intentional (we targetted a terror cell and got him not knowing he was there), he'll get a HUGE spike, but not that high.

Well, if it's the former, then the Dick Cheneys, John Boltons, and John McCains should endorse Obama for re-election. Should do, but probably won't do.

To be fair, no, they shouldn't.  Obama's not the one doing the intelligence work.  I don't mean to downplay the great role I'm sure he played in this, but that act alone doesn't make one worthy of reelection.

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Now there's speculation going around on Twitter that Obama timed this to interrupt Celebrity Apprentice and take a jab at Trump... how dumb.

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I think from a political standpoint, George W. Bush is relieved that there is physical evidence that his invasion of Afghanistan 9 1/2 years ago was justified and that his main target is finally dead.  It may not have happened under his watch, but that it did happen.

Not many questioned the invasion of Afghanistan (other than Truthers, and they'll still say we just murdered a scapegoat just now).  It got more popular as we've stayed there, but I don't think the War there was ever that unpopular.

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So 10:30PM EST is coming up at half past this hour? Sorry, time zones confuse me sometimes.

No, it was supposed to be 10:30 P.M. EDT.  They're running behind.

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From a political standpoint, I wonder if this breaking news will erase all the other wrongs that Obama has done in his first 27 months in office and basically hand him the election 18 months in advance?

Its hard to say. It will help him for quite awhile but its hard to see this making people forget about the economic problems for that long. If he wins, it will likely be the coninuance of the recovery that did it for him.

Yeah.  We're still a long way out from 2012 for this to matter that much by then.  It'll give him a big spike in approval ratings, but that won't last a year and a half.

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CNN reporting he was killed in Islamabad; CBS saying Afghanistan.

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From a political standpoint, I wonder if this breaking news will erase all the other wrongs that Obama has done in his first 27 months in office and basically hand him the election 18 months in advance?

Its hard to say. It will help him for quite awhile but its hard to see this making people forget about the economic problems for that long. If he wins, it will likely be the coninuance of the recovery that did it for him.

Yeah.  We're still a long way out from 2012 for this to matter that much by then.  It'll give him a big spike in approval ratings, but that won't last a year and a half.

That's true, but people will ask in October 2012, what was President Obama's lasting achievement, and why should I vote for him?  One answer will come from May 1, 2011 when the news broke that Osama Bin Laden was killed under his watch.

Most voters don't think like that.

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FOX is saying we have his body; he was identified with DNA from a family member, and he was killed in Pakistan.

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FOX is saying that he may have been killed up to a week ago, and they were waiting on the DNA confirmation.

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Side note, fox's "Usama" spelling is annoyeing me

It is what the FBI uses, though.

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There will be no bounce for Obama because of this.

Could be wrong. Good riddance to Osama though.

I can promise he gets at least some bounce.

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There will be no bounce for Obama because of this.

Could be wrong. Good riddance to Osama though.

I can promise he gets at least some bounce.

Maybe a small one. Nothing compared to what Bush would have gotten, or McCain.

Probably not, but he'll get at least 20-30 points I'm predicting.

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CBS is now saying he was shot in the head.

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Obama: America conducted an operation that killed Bin Laden.

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I hate it. He is just horrible. He being obama.

How so?