Obama's Bin Laden Ad

Barack Obama has been making great use of the death of Bin Laden. As the first anniversary of the raid in Pakistan last year that ended with the death of the terrorist Bin Laden's killing has been used as a focal point in advertisements. Today the President made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, the fact that today is the one year anniversary should not surprise us with the timing of this visit.

In short if you are not aware and sufficiently impressed with the decisions the President made to capture and kill Bin Laden then he is going to do all he can to make sure you are. This is not wrong. After all Obama did give the green light to the mission and certainly if it had gone wrong he would have had to handle the criticism for those same decisions.

Still it is also a viable point to say that were Republicans in power and running similar ads lauding their decisions Democrats would be going crazy. Certainly the uproar over the Bush campaign in 2004 using 9/11 in their ads was not muted from the left.

Should he take loud and clear credit for the success. Sure, if he wants to that is fine. Let's just make sure that we understand that it is all politics and thus hypocritical. From the left for their previous criticisms of Bush and from the right from their previous defense of the same.

In our current political divide their is little right and wrong. It just depends on the source.