Jeff Winbush: Obama is "Leading From Behind, Coming Out Ahead"

[Empowerer]

Leading From Behind, Coming Out Ahead
By Jeff Winbush
October 20, 2011

There is no trophy room in the White House, but if there were one, President Obama could add Libyan dictator Mohammar Gaddafi’s pelt to the wall next to Osama bin Laden and the radical American-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, spiritual adviser to Major Nidal Malik Hasan whose shooting spree at Fort Hood, killed 13 people and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed Christmas Day bomber.

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Intelligence without a Commander-in-Chief to differentiate between what is actionable and what is not is the difference between invading Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist and successfully ending the evil of a murderer who killed innocent American citizens . . . It’s not enough to have the military bullet in the gun. You also need someone with a steady hand to aim it. Presidents don’t personally take out the garbage, but they have a lot to say in deciding who deserves to go out in it. The president saw an opportunity to get rid of Gaddafi and he took it. Good for him. Obama was roundly criticized from all sides of the political spectrum with a few nuts like Dennis Kucinich suggested bombing Libya was an impeachable offense. The president’s “leading from behind” strategy was vilified at the time, but it got the job done.

You don’t have to give Obama credit and he’s not going to parade around waving the bloody shirt or the head and horns. He could have taken a “hands-off” and this day still might have happened anyway. Or it might not have happened at all.

Reagan wanted Gaddafi. Bush wanted Bin Laden.

Obama got ‘em both.

http://jeffwinbush.com/2011/10/20/leading-from-behind-coming-out-ahead/

[flamingdem]

1. Prepare for the leave Qwadafi alone posts nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. "IBTR"

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[pnorman]

3. Iwas looking for that image!

[CakeGrrl]

4. Big REC

[babylonsister]

5. Reagan wanted Gaddafi. Bush wanted Bin Laden. Obama got ‘em both.

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