Obama the Stone Cold Killer Like many of my rants, I'm going to give both the positive and negatives about President Obama. Barak Obama has spent a lot of time talking about change. Some liberal news outlets will point out that Guantanamo Bay is still open but not nearly as loudly as they did when Bush was President. President Obama gets a pass when it comes to killing terrorists. It is true that he has outlawed torture and other "enhanced interrogation" methods. No, our President prefers to just kill them. I for one, commend him on that. The liberal media refuses to highlight this the way they did to Bush, the warmonger president. Let's recap Bush's eight years and Obama's five. Fine, we'll say Bush had seven since 9/11 and since 9/11 happened toward the latter half, we'll just round to six. Either way; here is the scorecard. Drone Strikes Obama: 292 Bush: 52 Senior Al Queda members killed Obama: 22 Bush: 12 Now, this is a little unfair to Bush because we don't give him any credit for Saddam Hussein , his sons and those in Iraq. This is a bias on my part, although I was for the Iraq war, 9/11 was about Al Qaeda and the Taliban protected Osama Bin Laden. President Obama did get THE target; Osama Bin Laden. Yea, Republicans scream, "They never would have gotten him if it wasn't for torture." Maybe, but since I'm skeptical of everyone, I resort to logic and common sense. Bush left office in January 2009 (you're a lame duck from the November election to January). Osama Bin Laden was killed in 2011. That's over two years later. I find it hard to believe that information received two years ago was still relevant now. Maybe he stayed in that safe house that Zero Dark Thirty described for three years. I don't know though, it seems far-fetched. Republicans who haven't ignored Obama's success at killing terrorist complain "We can't interrogate and get information about the few Al Queda leaders we have left." That sounds legitimate but we got Osama Bin Laden by killing everyone, so why can't we get this ophthalmologist? The liberals don't bring this up because they have a school-girl crush on Obama. That's fine, he's immune to kill all the terrorists he wants, and some are even US citizens. Yes, right-wingers think this is a dangerous precedent and it is. According to the constitution, the president can engage in acts of war for 30 days without congressional approval. Clinton enacted this power more than every other president before him combined! Now we have Obama who's abusing his right to kill people. But then again, as far as I can tell, he hasn't killed anyone that didn't deserve to be killed. I made up a ridiculous conspiracy that as Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy died shortly after each other, it was Obama that did it because they had the courage to call Muslims terrorists. That would be odd though, these people wrote fictitiously about what Obama does for real. Maybe they exposed some of his tactics, maybe Mitch Rapp is real (Vince Flynn reference). Maybe there are multiple Mitch Rapp's all over the world. I certainly hope so! So, kill away Mr. President. I do believe that there are some things you do that we the American people shouldn't know about. But so long as you keep killing people that have tried to hurt us, then kill away Sir. Also, Cheney and those of Bush's administration are complaining that after criticizing them for being war mongers, he has taken their work further. I say "good." So the inexperienced Obama didn't realize the violence was necessary. Now that he has experience, he realizes that violence is necessary; so I'm okay with that. The thing that baffles me about this stone cold killer of a president we have is Benghazi. Our US representatives, including the ambassador, are murdered and President Obama does nothing? There was a little investigation but not much. There was no manhunt; nothing. This should have cost him the election, but Sandy saved it for him. Where was this man that has killed so many Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders? I really have only one explanation. President Obama likes working in the shadows. There was too much press on Benghazi, so he appeared weak. Behind the scenes though, he's looking for and going to kill those responsible. At least, I hope so. In all, when President Obama gives a speech he comes off as a terrorist sympathizer. He doesn't like using words like "terrorist" or "evil" and likes blaming youtube for Muslims killing. Right-wingers have a problem with that. I, however, would prefer someone talk weak and walk tough than one who talks strong and acts weak. His strategy has seemingly lured the enemy into a false sense of security before Obama can kill them. Obama can call terrorists the "backbone of our society" for all I care just so long as he keeps killing them. Every single law enforcement officer would probably tell you that you need to let the little guys go and monitor them so they lead you to the big guys. Obama kills them but his strategy doesn't appear to be failing. To give an article that summarizes what's been discussed here see http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/09/11/more-killing-in-obamas-war-on-terror-than-bushs-war/ http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Al-Qaeda-leaders-who-have-been-killed-and-arrested/Article1-551687.aspx