The new " Obama killed Osama" Ad does not say that we got the info from detainees in Guantanamo

In a previous post, we spoke about Pres BO's problem with men.  Yes, men have historically seen the Dem party as weak on foreign policy.  They've had that problem since the left took over the Dem party in 1972.  In other words, LBJ, JFK, Truman and FDR did not have that problem.

Today, the Obama reelection campaign has a new TV ad.   

We call it "The Obama killed Osama" TV ad.  It is obviously intended to show that Pres BO is decisive, tough and will kill terrorists whenever he gets a chance:

As we posted before, Pres BO was correct in taking out Osama if the opportunity presented itself.

It did and Pres BO made the decision to send The Navy Seals.

Congratulations Pres BO.  Good decision!

However, this is a bit more complicated than that.

We got the "tip" that OBL was in that house from information obtained in Guantanamo, or the same place that Pres BO wanted to close:

"Detainees at Guantanamo Bay provided the crucial breakthrough in hunting down Osama Bin Laden, American officials said last night.  Senior officials in the Obama administration said intelligence gained from interrogations at the U.S. base was directly responsible for helping security forces track down and kill Bin Laden."  (UK)

Did we hear that in "Obama killed Osama" TV ad?  The answer is no.

Did we hear that Pres BO did not support opening or detaining terrorists in GITMO?  The answer is no.

Pres Clinton is in this TV ad.  We hear Pres Clinton correctly saying that presidents are the ones who have to make the tough calls.

Did we hear anything about Pres Clinton's "rendition" jails, or the secret CIA jails that he opened to keep terrorists in places like Turkey and Egypt.?  Those prisons were vital in getting information from terrorists, too.

Did we hear that candidate BO wanted to make us popular with the European left by closing those prisons?  

Let's get real.  Everyone was very happy that a Navy Seal put a bullet in OBL's forehead.  I cheered as much as everyone else.

Again, let's get real.  We found Osama because Pres Obama did not close GITMO as he promised all of those "yes we can" screamers during the election.

And he won't be closing it anytime soon!  We remind you that it was a Dem majority in Congress that killed the idea of closing GITMO because they didn't want the detainees moving to prisons in their states or districts.  It was so easy to talk about closing GITMO when the Dems were out of power and giving speeches....wasn't it?

First, killing Osama was the best dividend that came from Pres Bush opening GITMO. 

Second, the TV ad overlooks another reality.  Pres BO has kept all of those Bush anti-terror policies that he ran against.  I guess Pres BO realized that governing was a lot more complicated than telling immature "yes we can" screamers what they wanted to hear at those university rallies.

Congratulations to Pres BO for reversing his campaign promises, i.e. keeping GITMO open and continuing the Bush anti-terror policies.   Click here for the Friday commentary:

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CONFIRMED: The Arizona lawsuit was not about racial profiling or civil rights. It was about distracting hispanos from failed promises & high unemployment

We won't know for sure until late June but legal experts say that the Obama administration did not make a good case against Arizona.

First of all, someone should tell all of those marching outside the court that the Obama administration is not charging Arizona with racial profiling or violations of civil rights.

Let's confirm it with this exchange between Justice Roberts and Mr Verrilli, speaking for the Obama administration:

"“No part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling, does it?” he asked Verrilli, who agreed." (DallasNews)

This is very important because the Obama administration has been "pandering", and actually lying, to Hispanics over this law.  At the end of the day, the Obama administration is simply saying that the federal government rather than a state has a responsibility over immigration.

Second, it's hard to argue that Arizona is wrong when it simply wants to enforce federal immigration laws.

Again, Arizona did not create immigration laws, open an "Arizona Customs Office", establish an embassy in Mexico City, or issue Arizona passports.  It did not invent laws to enforce.  It simply wants an opportunity to enforce the laws that Dem & GOP Congresses have passed over the years. 

The Obama case looks weak because it was based on purely political reasons.   

The Obama administration, and Dem congressional majorities, did not pass any immigration reform as promised.   They are trying to compensate by scaring and distracting Hispanics that Arizona is some police state where the authorities will target people who look "hispano".  (By the way, what does looking "hispano" look like anyway?)

Again, it does not look like the Justices are buying the arguments.  

At one point, we heard this:

"“You can see it's not selling very well,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of the court's liberal wing and its first Hispanic justice, told Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., referring to a central part of his argument against the measure." (DallasNews)

The Obama administration is in real trouble if Justice Sotomayor is not buying their arguments.

It looks like the Arizona law will stand and states will be allowed to do what a weak president does not want to do.   The Justices understand that we live in a nation of laws NOT one where laws are enforced selectively to distract one group from campaign promises not kept.

Our friends at Power Line have a wonderful assessment of the Supreme Court hearing.  I agree with this:

"You can read the entire argument here and draw your own conclusions, but in my opinion, the problem was not with Verrilli but rather with the quality of the arguments that he was required to make by his client, the Obama administration."

Let me say it again.  The Obama administration went after Arizona for purely political and cynical reasons.   

It had nothing to do with the merits of the law.    

It had everything to do with a president who couldn't get his party to pass a law that he promised to pass.  

He didn't do it and now he wants Hispanics to forget about his failure by lying about Arizona. 

My guess is that all of those well meaning people cheering outside the court will be very disappointed in late June. 

Hispanics disappointed again with Obama?  What's new?  Disappointment has been the order of the day since millions of Hispanics subscribed to that fantasy called "si se puede"!

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