Bin Laden Raid Complicates G.O.P. Message for 2012
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
NYT
President Obama’s Republican critics, especially his potential 2012 rivals, have been assembling a campaign-season narrative that seeks to label him as weak and indecisive on national security matters.
But that strategy appears in doubt after Mr. Obama’s Sunday night announcement that he had ordered a daring and dangerous raid that ended in the killing of Osama bin Laden.
“This was the mother of all political inoculations,” said Matt Bennett, a vice president at Third Way, a centrist group with close ties to the White House.
“This was as tough as you can get. This was decisive. And it was smart, done carefully and executed perfectly,” Mr. Bennett said. “Unless something else crazy happens, it’s going to be impossible to attack him on national security grounds.”
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NYT
President Obama’s Republican critics, especially his potential 2012 rivals, have been assembling a campaign-season narrative that seeks to label him as weak and indecisive on national security matters.
But that strategy appears in doubt after Mr. Obama’s Sunday night announcement that he had ordered a daring and dangerous raid that ended in the killing of Osama bin Laden.
“This was the mother of all political inoculations,” said Matt Bennett, a vice president at Third Way, a centrist group with close ties to the White House.
“This was as tough as you can get. This was decisive. And it was smart, done carefully and executed perfectly,” Mr. Bennett said. “Unless something else crazy happens, it’s going to be impossible to attack him on national security grounds.”
(More here.)
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