Posted on 05/09/2011 11:16:46 AM PDT by Justaham
Watching the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound unfold last week from the White House Situation room was interminable, the president revealed to CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview that aired Sunday evening.
"It was the longest 40 minutes of my life," Obama told correspondent Steve Kroft during a conversation taped days after bin Laden's death. A photo of the national security team viewing the action remotely has quickly become a touchstone of the May 1 event, but officials have revealed little about what was going on behind the scenes, citing security concerns.
Obama described the mood as "very tense," revealed he felt "nervous" and said officials were talking as they sat in the Situation Room. But he stressed that they were busy listening to real-time reports. "There were big chunks of time in which all we were doin' was just waiting," Obama said. He added that the only comparable episode of tense anticipation in his earlier life was when his daughter Sasha contracted meningitis at three months.
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What an azz, and why do people make excuses for the guy?
“It was the longest 40 minutes of my life,”
“Well, actually 64 minutes because of the 24 minutes when everything was blacked out and we couldn’t see what was going on”
Just how long are the media going to use this 60 minutes interview...that no one obviously cared to watch; to milk Obama’s campaign 2012?
Yep. Time goes by slowwwwly when you’re wondering if you’re going to make your next tee time or not.
I'm just trying to imagine how awesomely epic our President was last Sunday, in single-handedly defeating al-Qa'ida, breast cancer and the giant planet-killer meteor that was hurtling towards the Earth.
I’m sure that was a long 40 minutes for zero. It started when they told him to hurry up his putt and ended with him getting a ride in the cheap seats on that helo back to the White House, where he was pretty much presented with a fait accompli.
What do you mean? He scored a three on that hole.
I call bullshit. The longest 40-minutes of his life was probably some time when the teleprompter failed.
He is the media black Jesus because he ‘amazingly kept this horrendously hard to keep top secret, secret.( As the link in my last post said)
Looks sort of like “bring your kid to work” day.
I think the longest forty minutes of Obama’s life would be his time at Harvard.
Yeah, yeah, he was called in from the golf course to watch the end game.
I thought his career in the U.S. Senate before starting his campaign for President was the longest 40 minutes in Zero’s life?
As I just said on another thread, there would've been little risk, militarily, politically, or otherwise if the attack failed. This is the beauty of most covert missions--they can be denied. If the helo crashed--the spinsters would have some breath-taking story ready. If the compound was booby-trapped and SEALS were maimed or killed--they would have no hard identification. If Osama wasn't there--so what, just another unsuccessful snoop mission.
Not to say that a loss of the lives of one or more of our brave soldiers is trivial...it's not. But our special forces are keenly aware of the risks they take, and those risks are far greater than the risk the POTUS had riding on this mission.
I watched an Arnold Schwarthiswhatsit movie the same day, while eating ice cream.
Scariest 116 minutes of my life too!
(...macho... macho duck...
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