Maureen Dowd: Cool Hand Barack

[ThatPoetGuy]

No wonder the president’s top generals call him “a Cool Hand Luke.”

After giving the order for members of a Navy Seals team to execute a fantastically daring plan to, let’s be honest, execute Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama put on a tuxedo and gave a comedy speech Saturday night in a Washington ballroom of tippling journalists and Hollywood stars.

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Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin, who was so tacky that she didn’t mention Obama’s name in her congratulations, tried to draw credit to the Bush administration.

But there can be no doubt that justice for the families of the 9/11 victims was agonizingly delayed because the Bush team took a megalomaniacal detour to Baghdad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/opinion/04dowd.html?ref=opinion

MoDo seems to get it right this time.

[pscot]

1. Ms. Dowd at her considerable best

Highly recommended. Her takedown of the Bushies and Pakistanis is devastating. Maybe this will resonate with the kool kids.

[ThatPoetGuy]

2. I don't know who the kool kids are...

but this is a great editorial, and I hope we can finally start getting people to accept that the Republican approach to war and terror is a bad approach.