Obama’s Badass Week(end)

It’s nice to see Obama finally having a good week (or well weekend). I’m still waiting to see how the real America responds to sunday night’s events – will the right wing pundits head explode from Obama doing everything they expect from a president, with regards to national security and the war on terror?

But the badass weekend started a few days prior to last nights announcement, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Where he not only burned most of his potential 2012 republican opponents, but also celebrated the release of his long form birth certificate with a video featuring the song “I’m a real American” and the document. Check out the full 18 minute speech (or at least the intro song), he’s legitimately funny.

You have to wonder if he was thinking about this bin laden the whole time.

Sunday night when the news hit, I was at work, so we pulled it up on one of the unused screens:

The speech was very well put together. I thought it was very good that he made it clear that this has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with bringing justice to a bad dude. but I was very conflicted. It was uncomfortable for me to see a sitting democrat president, with a Nobel peace prize, talking about actionable intelligence and giving the capture or kill order. (Of course he’s been all about firing tomahawk missiles lately.) The part of me from real America was ready to chant with everybody else, and picturing some crazy black ops dude saying something super cowboy and then popping bin laden in the head. Like I said conflicted. I just hope the folks who lost loved ones on 9/11 finally got closure, and maybe the next bin laden won’t be as effective.

I really enjoyed how the internet just exploded after the announcement. 4 chan is still blasting america fuck yeah. It was announced at wrestle-mania, (check out the guy at 1:03 in this video). Twitter and facebook went Ka-Boom. George Bush even congratulated Obama. Still, this is my favorite piece:

And given that it was 8 years to the day from Bush’s ludicrously mistimed jet ride onto a air craft carrier, I think its time to get Obama a huge Mission Accomplished Banner. I wonder what the navy guys did with the old banner? Maybe they wrapped the body in it before dumping it in the ocean.  Hopefully this few days of badassness, will help regular Americans come back around to the Obama camp, or god help us all in 2012.

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