By John W. Lillpop
It was on May 1 that President Obama took to the microphones and TV cameras to announce, with great fanfare, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader and mastermind of the Al-Quaeda branch of the Religion of Peace.
Obama’s announcement set off a tsunami of approval and good feelings among Americans, including among young college students who chanted, “America, #1,” words rarely heard at leftist institutions like college campuses.
The next morning, America was still celebrating wildly. So much so that Joy Behar and Barbara Walters of the View proposed that the 2012 elections by cancelled because of Obama’s newly earned stature as America’s Killer Dude-In-Chief.
Behar and Walters could barely contain their glee as they contemplated Act 2 of the worst presidency in history:
View co-hosts Joy Behar and Barbara Walters on Monday immediately politicized the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. After giving credit to Barack Obama for the successful strike, supposedly straight journalist Walters giddily announced, "I would hate now to be a Republican candidate thinking of running."
Liberal comedienne Joy Behar played off a months-old comment by token conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Behar crowed, "As Elisabeth always says, they should just skip the next election."
Fast forward just 90 days or so and you have a weakened president who has “lead” the nation to the brink of default and who has presided over the first credit downgrade in U.S. history.
Which begs the question, “Whatever happened to the Osama Bounce?”
Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/05/02/joy-behar-and-barbara-walters-politicize-bin-laden-death-just-cancel#ixzz1Uj8FEhn2
