Mickey Kaus has some thoughts on the non-spikiness of the Bay Area. Also, this:
I agree with Obama that “we don’t need to spike the football.” But if he wanted to avoid unseemly, gloating victory celebrations, he could have counseled against them in his Sunday night speech, no? And avoidance of gloating isn’t the main reason for not releasing the gruesome photograph (nor is gloating the main argument for releasing it). Not very lawyerly to conflate the two issues…
Have we ever had a president more given to creating straw men and mocking his political opponents?
That is the province of modern presidents. Lately we’ve had two narcissistic presidents. Comes with the package.
Blame the American voter – they seem to *require* this in a president. No matter political leaning.
I didn’t understand the argument that releasing the photo is “spiking the football” (which I agree shouldn’t be done), but going to ground zero was ok. Even from a national political stand point, the better time to go to ground zero would be on the 10th Anniversary a few months from now.
As for San Franscisco, what is expressed as sort of apathy to Bin Laden’s death is about the same sense I have. I’m glad he’s dead, and unlike a few noted in SF, I believe he was killed. However, the US has done quite a bit to deminish the capability for Al Qaeda to carry out attacks in the US or elsewhere. Bin Laden’s been contained. Taking him out makes that all the more permenant, which does mean a better chance to pull out of the war in Afghanistan sooner rather than later.
I more happy about the gathering of information at the compound, and the expectation it will be exploited. It is a shame some people had to gloat about what was collected.
Nobody who was once hired to implement school curricula drafted by Bill Ayers should be anywhere near 9/11, or any other place that was ever targeted by terrorists.