TOUGH GUYS DON'T PRANCE (Apologies to Norman Mailer)**

After a grueling day of golf, our tough guy POTUS is 
on the sidelines, as a bystander during the killing of 
Osama bin Laden.

Barack Obama has questioned whether Mitt Romney would have had the courage to take out Osama bin Ladin. Here's the short answer--yes. Mitt Romney said today that even Jimmy Carter would have done it. Now, look at the picture to the right. Does Obama look engaged in the task at hand? Not really. He's hunkered down like he's trying to avoid being noticed. That day he was playing golf until he dropped into the situation room 20 minutes before the Navy SEALS began the mission to take out Osama bin Laden. 

This is according to a story in the UK Daily Mail online, citing claims in a book by Chuck Pfarrer, a former SEAL team commander, entitled SEAL Target Geronimo.  Pfarrer spoke to several of the men that carried out the operation at Bin Laden's mansion hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.  According to the Daily Mail story: 

Mr Pfarrer says the President's role was largely inflated and suggests he stayed out on the golf course for so long so he could distance himself in case it went wrong. Mr Pfarrer writes: 'If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow.'

A year later, Obama is taking full credit for the hit on Osama. He acted like he was the man being sung about in the old Gene Pitney song Liberty Valance.*** The song is about the killing of a vicious gunslinger named Liberty Valance by a lawyer. Hmm, Obama is a lawyer. Perhaps some of the song's lyrics could be altered to sing the praises of our tough guy POTUS:

Everyone heard shots ring out, those shots made Osama fall

But the man who watched as Osama died, he watched as Osama died

He was the bravest of them all 

Tough guy Democrat POTUS candidate 

Michael Dukakis in 1988-- showing that 

he's combat ready. 

Obama has been thumping his chest for the last couple of days as if he pulled the trigger that killed Osama. And he seems to have gotten a taste for killing lately with the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. During Sunday's 60 Minutes interview with Jose Rodriguez, the ex-CIA Interrogations Chief quizzed naïve Liberal propagandist Lesley Stahl with the moral conundrum of which is less ethical; indiscriminately killing terrorists or capturing them, interrogating and pouring club soda up their noses. To hypocritical Liberals, the former and the latter is true only if it is a Republican in charge. But when Liberals are in charge, they are usually appeasers, i.e., unless they sense some political advantage in appearing to be a tough guy.  Still a Liberal male usually looks very silly whenever he tries to look tough. See, e.g., the above picture of the 1988 Democrat Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis.


The current Obama-Romney tit for tat may have begun when Mitt Romney called Obama "an appeaser" in December 2011. On Chrissy Matthews' show Hardball, (read Softball) Obama shill and Washington Post propagandist, Eugene Robinson stated in response:

The fact is, though, that as President Obama said, he's not an appeaser just -- if you look at the record, he's more of an assassin if you want to talk about the way he's attacked terrorism. He has  gone out to kill the al-Qaeda leaders."

This delighted Obama fan boy, ex-cop Chrissy Matthews who pointed out that Mitt Romney had no business calling Obama an appeaser because he had no history of military service in his family, (so much for free speech.) What that flawed bit of logic has to do with anything is beyond comprehension. But Liberals are comfortable pointing out the flaws of others even though they are among the most flawed, self-centered, and cowardly of all human beings.  And it doesn't matter if they have the same flaws as those that they are criticizing. Anybody that is sane would have made the call to take out Osama. That the normally passive Obama wants to make political hay out of the killing of Osama is shameless. It also shows that real tough guys don't prance.

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Nafta's Notes: 

**The title of this blog post is a play on the title of the Norman Mailer book, Tough Guys Don't Dance as well as a movie.  The movie got some mediocre reviews and rates 4.9 out of 10 stars by IMDb users. One piece of trivia about the movie in the IMDb entry is interesting:

Norman Mailer, in the director's commentary on the DVD, said that he was counseled to cut the ending of the scene in which Ryan O'Neal's character Tim Madden reads a note from his ex-girlfriend Madeline informing him that his wife was having an affair with her husband, and he exclaims, "Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man!" because of O'Neal's poor performance. Mailer kept it in because he thought the poor line reading actually added something to the picture. O'Neal, who had been friendly with Mailer, turned on him, as the bit revealed his shortcomings as an actor and embarrassed him.

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***The song Liberty Valence is from the movie The Man who Shot Liberty Valence. According to the IMDb entry, the film is about, "A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed." Except for telling the truth, the storyline is not unlike Obama's account of the taking out of Osama bin Laden:

When Senator Ransom Stoddard returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon, he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty Valance and Stoddard has nothing to his name left save a few law books. He gets [a] job in the kitchen at the Ericson's restaurant and there [he] meets his future wife Hallie. The territory is vying for Statehood and Stoddard is selected as a representative over Valance, who continues terrorizing the town. When he destroys the local newspaper office and attacks the editor, Stoddard calls him out though the conclusion is not quite as straightforward as legend would have it. [Emphasis added.]

This another way of saying there were political spin doctors back in the day.