Obama Bounce
After bouncing bin Laden, Obama gets a bounce of his own.
John Zogby, in Forbes, thinks Obama’s bounce to 46%, from a 41% approval rating 10 days earlier, “may mark a pivot point in the perceptions of independent voters”.
Or in the Evil One’s own words, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.”
Here’s the RCP Average.
Pakistan Pals
A curious number of terror types have turned up in cities under the nose of the Pakistan military.
Obama Enigma
Osama Bin Laden sleeps with the fishes.
Under President Obama’s orders to go mano a mano, Navy Seals shot and killed the Evil One in cold blood. His Miranda rights were not read and he won’t be tried in a civilian court. His corpse was thrown on a helicopter and flown to a ship in the Arabian Sea where it was dumped overboard. All well and good.
But hard to square with a president who wanted Gitmo closed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in Manhattan, and considered prosecuting CIA interrogators to show the superiority of American justice. On the other hand, Obama has blown over 1500 terror suspects to smithereens.
In a display of respect, bin Laden’s body was washed and prepared for burial according to Islamic custom. His demise will not be verified by photos because “that’s not who we are… we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies”.
That won’t wash with the Muslim world.
Cave Dweller
It turns out bin Laden’s cave was in a million dollar compound, in the resort town of Abbottabad, about 800 yards from Pakistan’s military academy.
Oil Slam
In his radio address today, President Obama blamed greedy oil companies for your pain. The Washington Post was on top of it.
“When oil companies are making huge profits and you’re struggling at the pump, and we’re scouring the federal budget for spending we can afford to do without, these tax giveaways aren’t right,” Obama said. “They aren’t smart. And we need to end them.”
Here are Obama’s approval ratings from the various polls as listed on Real Clear Politics (the numbers in the cartoon were as of noon Saturday 4/30).
