McCain commends Obama on bin Laden (McCain gives Obama credit)

Politico ^ | 2011-05-01

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. John McCain, a Senate hawk and President Barack Obama's GOP opponent in the 2008 election, praised the president Sunday night for approving a military raid that took out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

McCain was briefed on the news by Defense Secretary Robert Gates before Obama's address.

“I am overjoyed that we finally got the world's top terrorist," McCain said in a statement. "The world is a better and more just place now that Osama bin Laden is no longer in it. I hope the families of the victims of the September 11th attacks will sleep easier tonight and every night hence knowing that justice has been done. I commend the President and his team, as well as our men and women in uniform and our intelligence professionals, for this superb achievement."

[jackmercer]

“What?? Was Obama there in pink camos and a Lady Smith and Wesson?”

The S&W Lady Smiths kill just as effectively as the non-Lady Smith versions. I have a 3913LS and can attest to its lethality.

Just sayin....

[jongaltsr]

McCain lost a portion of his brain in Hanoi.
Sorry John but you should not be politics for this reason.

I left VN 2 days before you were shot down.
I’m sorry for your pain and torture but you should not
be in charge of anything to do with opponents because your
mind was (and still is) warped to try to “get along - to survive.”

[VideoDoctor]

Is john out of his room again?

Give him his medication and put him back to bed.

[re_nortex]

I’ll stick with giving the credit to the CIA and the military special ops guys. Greta and Whoraldo can’t control themselves trying to give Barry Soetoro all of the credit. It’s pretty sickening.

BHO gets no credit at all for this operation and its success. The killing of Bin Laden happened in spite of the current illegal _resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Hussein has been systematically dismantling our American military might. Our brave men in the armed forces are incredibly skilled and able to accomplish great things in spite of O'Bambi's obstructionism.

[napscoordinator]

President Bush gave Obama credit too. When you are in the office, you get credit for EVERYTHING. It is how it is. Yes it would have been great to have OBL dead during President Bush’s time but it did not happen no matter how much President Bush tried.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I wonder if McCain voted for Obama in the last election.

I could see it really i could.

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL!

[cydcharisse]

McCain shouldn’t have even mentioned the President, because the President and his team had absolutely nothing to do with this.
Armed Forces acted entirely on its own with no direction whatsoever from anyone even vaguely associated with the White House.

McCain is delusional, isn’t he.

[truthguy]

IMHO, without the commitment of GWB and his support of our Military and Intelligence Community this would have never happened.

I agree with you 100%. Giving Obama credit for taking out OBL would be like giving Harry Truman credit for winning WWII. Yes, OBL death was on Obama's watch. But Obama was president as intelligence came to light as to where he was. Are they any people who think this would not have happened if McCain was elected or Hillary was elected? It would have happened the same way it did. So Obama did what any president would have done. Nothing special here. No big contribution from Obama. He was simply lucky to be in office when the intelligence came in.