President Obama may not want America to “spike the football,” but he never runs out of ways to disgust. Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard uncovers the latest. It’s a URL, gutsycall.com, that was purchased on May 4. There is no site at that address, but it does point somewhere. Guess where?
But by all means, let’s not spike the football, champ.
While we’re on the subject, between celebrating a touchdown or celebrating a war win, which is more meaningful? Which is likely to resonate the most? By making the comparison between the two, which has the president belittled?
Americans want to feel good about our country. That is a basic, almost primal need: We want to feel good about the groups to which we belong. The spontaneous chants of “USA! USA! USA!” the the baseball game Sunday night as the news broke show that the victory in Abbottabad brought out a deep reaction to that need. There is no shame in it. Celebrating the death of a monster who sent thousands of innocents to their deaths was in its own way a celebration that we’re fighting for freedom and we picked up a win, collectively, all of us, Democrat and Republican and independent and everything and everyone else. Our team picked up a serious and probably lasting win. USA!
So why then this need on the part of this president to talk about the desire to see Osama bin Laden’s final portrait as if it’s a trophy or an end zone celebration? That is insulting to the people of the country. OBL’s death pic is closure, and it’s also so many other things: The chance to see the monster’s just end, the chance to put an exclamation point on the images of 9-11, the chance to honor those who have sacrificed to keep the hunt going and the war effort on a winning foot all these years. It’s much deeper than the president’s offensive sports analogy.
I am so glad that he made the “gutsy call” to get bin Laden. It had to be done, and Obama made that call and he was right to do it. But his behavior afterward has been an unending string of mistakes, gaffes, flubs and insults. Enough already. He is the leader of the free world and it is past time that he acted like it.
For a gutless person, any call is gutsy. If OBL was killed, he claimed credits, if things went wrong, Penata and the special force vice admiral were rogue operatives. The raid would be covered up. Win-win for a gutless, shameless person.
Btw, it took 16 hrs to work up his guts.
You forget Obama is not interested in making the USA look good.
Uhm…Why in the world would anyone think that the president of the United States ordering the US military to kill Osama bin Laden is anything remotely resembling a “gutsy call”?
Actually, this was the exact opposite of a gutsy call. This call was like deciding to pull up your pants when you left the bathroom.
If you try and succeed, kudos to you. You did the right thing. If you try and fail at least people will feel bad for you.
Better luck next time!
OK…so someone buys a site and links it to the Obama campaign site. How is that the President’s fault? This is dumb. I don’t like the current president, but come up with something real.
Ever heard of “command responsibility”? Oh, that’s right! Like all Copperheads, you wouldn’t know a responsibility if it bit you.
Not to throw too much cold water, but anybody can buy a domain name and have it point to any url they like. GoDaddy sells them cheap and redirects for free.
More like nobrainer.com
This celebration of the death of OBL — and I’m not talking about average Americans here, but the venal dems with their victory laps and backslapping congratulations — is the dems’ “Mission Accomplished” moment. The more they try to sell this as the end of the War on Terror, the more it’s going to blow up in their faces when something bad happens. And something bad is going to happen, given that the only thing which has stopped other recent attacks has been vigilent citizens paying attention and reporting when things are amiss, or the complete incompetence of the terorists. It hasn’t been our intelligence community who’s stopped the lone wolves…
We all know it wasn’t a gutsy call — it was a complete no-brainer which took the smartest president EVAH sixteen hours to make. How long would it have taken anyone else? Maybe sixteen seconds? Had you been the president and were told by the CIA or the military that they had a good idea where OBL was and wanted to go in and take him, how long would it have taken you to give the order?
The fact that he and his supporters believe overselling how macho Obama is for taking credit for the op is rather sickening. The fact that they’re celebrating his gutsy call that anyone else would’ve made in a heartbeat is ridiculous. And, the thing they don’t comprehend is it appears pretty ridiculous to most of the country, which is why he’s received no bounce in his poll numbers.
The fact that the official story keeps changing — not with additional details which shed more light, but with complete about-faces on the narrative (he was armed/he was unarmed) — doesn’t make it seem like the WH wants anyone to know what the real story was. And most of us are troubled by that.
Let him and his fans crow about the gutsy call he made as much as they like. It won’t save his a$$ come next November. Maybe the Norwegians will give him another Nobel Peace Prize as a consolation…
Anyone can redirect a site to any site they want, so long as they can get the IP from the destination site (which can easily be done through a reverse DNS). I could register NakedTrannyDogs.com and have it redirect to Obama’s site if I wanted to (which I would do with Domains By Proxy, which is what GutsyCall.com is registered through).
Gutsycall should redirect towards Panetta , since he’s the one who made the call.
It is genuinely funny to see The Won’s supporters posting here how the undecider-in-chief (might have) had nothing to do with this. They pretend that their guy does not look like an incompetent fool, yet even they surely see it.
I don’t have anything to say about the domain name. But about the 16 hours it took Obama to make the final command call, I think perhaps Arleigh Burke had something to say on the matter:
“The difference between a good officer and a great one is about ten seconds.”
No word on what 16 hours makes you.
While we are on the subject, I do wonder, though, what history would have been like if on June 5, 1944, Eisenhower had taken 16 hours after his evening weather briefing to make the final decision to launch the D-Day invasion…if I remember correctly, by 16 hours after the briefing, the Allies had firmly won their toehold on the continent. Ike ending up taking a few hours total, not 16, to determine the entire fate of Western Civilization–and his initial decision to go ahead and set things in motion while seeing if the weather significantly changed for the worse did not take all that time, but was much quicker. That is a command decision for the ages.
Barack Obama took 16 hours for his command decision. Well, it *is* a little less time than it took McClellan to *finally* decide to attack Lee at Antietam, after having thrown away decisive victory by staring at the Army of Northern Virginia all day on September 16, 1862. I guess if this is Obama’s first time throwing everything on a roll of the dice, it’s not a bad beginner’s move at all–though he was lucky the opportunity did not slip on by, because that is usually what happens in these things and that was exactly what Burke was talking about with his “ten seconds”. As Shakespeare said, “there is a tide in the affairs of men”. But Obama got his man, and took some professional risks in doing so (made higher by his own dithering), so kudos.
However, long term, I don’t think this is going to go in the Undaunted Courage/Man of Iron/Nerves of Steel Hall of Fame. Overall, filling out the sheet I’d have to say it’s 1 above for risk taking in deciding on a gunfight vice an airstrike, 2 belows for excessive delay, 1 below hop total, press.
Sorry, no “aboves” for taking the risk to launch the raid in the first place, when all the cards were in your favor. Because taking risk is sometimes just part of the commander’s job, and an automatic down if you don’t. After all, one day all the cards might *not* be in your favor, and Joe Johnston never did the South a practical bit of good by always waiting till they were.
Yeah, gutsy to use overwhelming forces against an unarmed, unguarded man in pajamas. OBL deserved to be drawn and quartered, but should we celebrate for killing one unarmed man? Marshal Will Kane would be embarrassed.
Not to mention that Ike didn’t have the information resources during that time period, that Obama does. No immediate high flying drones to capture information, no internet to instantly relay it, etc. etc.
Barry is probably the most inept president we’ve had – well, along with Carter.
Obama takes credit for killing Osama, but refuses to stop the criminal investigation of those who actually made it possible.
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In football, “they” say to act like you’ve been there before.
There is nothing in executive management that Obama has done before, so he has reason to be inclined to act like he’s never been there before.
Continuing my celebrity beatdown:
1. 16 hours after Spruance knew where the Japanese carrier force was at Midway, the battle was effectively long decided. He took a few minutes to make the decision to launch the Hornet and Enterprise stikes. There was no potentially no recovery from this decision if it had turned out to have been a false sighting report.
2. 16 hours after Jackson had told Lee he wanted to take all of his corps (core, not corpse) and hit Hooker in the flank, Hooker’s right was in wild retreat. Lee did not take much time to make his decision to let Jackson proceed.
3. Presumably, given past performance, 16 hours after someone launches a massive nuclear strike on the United States, we will have been smoking embers for 15 hours and 30 minutes; our ballistic missile subs will be wondering why no one is talking to them anymore; and our enemies will be opening champagne bottles, knowing they had the measure of their man…
By redirecting to his site, the owner of the domain has effectively contributed the value of that domain to Obama’s campaign… Is such a contribution required to be public?
The men who carried out the mission, they are gutsy.
Love how if this happened during W’s term all the conservatives would be shitting their pants trying to kiss his ass and praise him for doing something good… but since it was OH GOD AN EVIL LIBERAL OH MY GOD THE COUNTRY IS IN RUINS then it’s obviously stupid to give Obama credit. I mean, come on republicans, try not to be THAT hypocritical for once in your life. I mean, I remember you guys going apeshit over Saddam… but I suppose Bush himself went there and handcuffed the guy, right?
Just wondering, really, you guys fascinate me.
Don’t know about you, Bubba, but to conservatives, when a politician has demonstrated as much insincerity as Obama has, takes 16 hours to make an “of course” decision and then puts himself at the center of events as if he’d actually pulled the trigger on bin Laden, we who have some slight regard for honesty and humility — they’re widely described as virtues; you might have heard of them — have a wee bit of difficulty taking all his statements at face value.
So, it took 16 hours to decide if he wanted to send American troops into another country (close to the capital), which could have resulted in a huge international incident if the intel was incorrect? My guess is if he had only took a couple hours to debate, we would hear that he didn’t take enough time to think it over (which is exactly what the reaction would have been had bin Laden not been there.
But he was, doh!
Or was he? Duh dunh..duh dunh..duh dunh(spooky music).
Or was he? duh dunh..duh dunh..du dunh (spooky music).
This whole Osama aftermath has done nothing but highlight the very real divide in our nation between opposing philosophies: those who live in the world as it is and feel no shame in meeting its challenges head-on, and those who live in the world as they wish it to be, wanting to avoid the ugly, the unpleasant, the uncomfortable, the… well, scary. Unfortunately, our president, whom we’ve always depended on to live in the world as it is, turns out to be in this iteration, one who lives in the world as he wishes it to be. Whether the call he made was “gutsy” or, as is increasingly being questioned, “forced” is something we need to examine.
The point being, I have never seen a case where evidence is disposed of in so much of a rush. Something smells.
In the aftermath of 9/11 it pained me to see the picture of Jonathan Briley falling head first from the WTC tower, having chosen his ineluctable fate instead of death by fire. I assure the President I can bear to see the face of his murderer no matter how gruesome the disfiguration.
Executing an unarmed prisoner is gutsy?
We lived through eight years of Bill Clinton’s “first black president” years, are we now being subject to the “first pre-teen president” years. He sure behaves like it.
This post is a case of internet 101 fail.
Common guys, stop sucking on our grapes … it really sucks.
Did you loose a friend or relative on 9/11 … if not please shut up and keep shut.
The President ultimately is the leader if the great nation. If the mission went wrong, given the 50-80% probability that it was actually OBL in the house Obama would have taken the blame if it went wrong.
50 – 80% chance? Where did you come up with that number? And, I highly doubt Barry would have taken the fall had the operation gone south. He probably would have stood up and said that he was on the golf course and knew nothing about it and that Leon had “acted stupidly”.
Obama didn’t make the call. Panetta, Gates and Clinton did, and had to shut down Valerie Jarrett when she tried to abort the mission. For Pres_ent Obama to take credit when he kept allowing Jarrett to talk him out of making a decision to act is obscene. But, it is par for the course for our golfing President.
Thank goodness Panetta had the balls to act, and that Gates and Clinton supported him.
You hate him. You really hate him
So much that you have lost all rationality.
I purchased that domain and forwarded it to the President’s site. You got a problem with that? This is still a free country, isn’t it?
Actually, no I didn’t. But I could have. Not everything that is done in the President’s name is his fault.
If I stab someone, ululating “I love Obama!” will it be his fault? How on earth do you expect one man to control the actions of millions of people?
Besides, isn’t that what you conservatives fear the most? Obama controlling the American people’s choices?
So yeah, you just jumped the gun there. You aren’t remotely credible. To assume that Obama or the DNC purchased this without any proof, when in fact anyone in the entire world could have purchased it – that’s 7 billion people, by the way – suggests that you actually hate this President literally beyond all reason.
Seriously. You must hate the President so much that you literally cannot think rationally any more if you honestly are willing to blame Obama for a domain that anyone in the entire world could have purchased.
But you know – if Obama were to oh say seize the domain and take it down just to appease you, you wouldn’t be happy. You’d turn around and say, “Violation of first amendments!”
There is something actually psychologically wrong when you agree with someone all the time, or when you disagree with someone all the time. BOTH are the actions of some seriously delusional people.
gutsycall.com redirects to a photo…not to an Obama site
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