April 13, 2009

Kudos to Obi-One

I'm not sure what President Obama's orders were. I know when Captain Phillips tried to escape the first time, no one was there to help him.

There is quite a bit of discussion around the internet of what did President Obama order and when did he order it? I'm not too worried about that. My only concern is the outcome. My post from Friday is generating a bit of you know, mail..

If you people out there want me to apologize for how I saw things at the time, you can wait till the cows come home. I'll not apologize for what, at the time, I feel was a valid criticism. No need to.

In my post I said the President Obama was going to have to make a call, and the situation was not going to get any better. I stand by that statement.

To whatever extent President Obama's orders were involved Kudos to him. That's the presidents job and he gets credit for the success of this operation (not as much as the Seals who took the shots but he is Commander in Chief).

I support the call he made and the actions of our fine military for a great success. Had the operation not turned out so well, I'd still praise Obama for trying.

We had comments that the French had made an err because one hostage was killed in the rescue. I disagree, the blood of the dead French hostage is on the hands of the pirates. Not those who tried and did rescue 4 out of the 5 hostages.

So does Obama get credit? Why yes, yes he does. I'm, glad it turned out this way. And that's why we have a president for days like yesterday. That's the most important aspect of his job. Much less so than taxing us and turning us into a coughneocommiecoughwelfarestatechoke.

Now this operation and ones Mr. Obama may have to make calls on in the future may or may not go as well. But so long as Mr. Obama stands up and does his best and does not bow or cow down to terrorists and pirates and preserves America's principals on issues like this, I stand behind him, regardless of how the luck of the moment turns.

On issues like this one we all have the same interest. That may not be so on so many other issues in which I will/can not support Obama's policies.

But for today I say to Mr. Obama, Great kid! Don't get cocky.

Oh and a message to Dan from NY below the fold.

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