5 things a republican can say to the American people to ensure a win in 2012:

1. I will give you closure. On the day that I take office, the world will see the death photos of the mongrel pig that killed our citizens.

2. On the day that I take office, I will issue an executive order to allow domestic drilling (including ANWAR) and the resumption of building new refineries in the US in order to implode gas prices.

3. I pledge that terrorist attacks against US citizens at home and abroad will be met with swift and massive retaliation against the individuals and leaders responsible, as well as against nations that are complicit.

4. I will allow no tax increases while I am in office. I will also use my veto pen against any increases in spending. I will demand a balanced budget amendment, and a fairer and simpler tax code (either a flat tax or a FAIR Tax). Until our government can live within its means, there will be no more burdens on taxpayers, and no more spending sprees.

5. I will eliminate several wasteful departments and agencies in the federal government that duplicate work that our constitution reserves to the states or to the people. My cabinet will be cut at least in half. One size does not fit all, and governors know best how to provide for their citizens. The days of the federal government confiscating your hard earned dollars to fund wasteful pet projects for congressmen and presidents is at an end.

I’ll bet those 5 simple points, hammered over and over again would not only win big, but pull in people to vote who gave up on elections a long time ago.

I don’t want to see a picture and it seems a bit much to post them. Conspiracy nuts are going to conspire and concoct theories no matter what proof is actually presented. And while the Arab Street might hate us no matter what we do, it is important that we maintain our own high moral standards and showing pictures of bullet-riddled corpse is a bit much.

What should have been a PR coup that lasted months will be probably be a 1-2 week bump tops. I’m amazed he botched this roll out so badly, I can honestly see this entire episode being a net negative for Obama instead of a much-needed boost.

All I can say is “Thank God” the military carried this out despite such an incompetent administration.

after all the american people have been through and suffered over this guy not giving them (except all congress people of course) the ability to see for themselves seems just wrong.
its not bloodlust/conspiracy really, its more reflective for many.

They are weak and powerless. Everything they have comes from our oil dollars. They hate us because we are everything they want to be. If we remove every issue in contention, they will still hate us for that reason.

Release the pictures. Show them what happens to those who attack America.

With the Birther issue resolved, Trump could jump on the lack of Osama photos as his next cause to portray himself as Mr Conservative.

Not that I have anything against spiking the football, in a moment of high emotion in an important game – I usually enjoy such displays. Heck, I grew up as a Bronco fan Shannon Sharpe was the king of trash talking.

But to my point: in football the other side isn’t trying to kill you. They need to release the photos not as some frivolous “nanny nanny boo boo” but to send two unmistakable messages to Al Quaeda and any and all other enemies 1. Bin Laden is really dead and 2. if you wage war on the United States, you will end up the same way.

That’s not “spiking the football” or reveling in Osama’s death in some unserious way,

As to the point about inspiring violence from Al Quaeda — releasing the photos for purposes of visual verification shouldn’t do that – and seeing proof of the death of their ever elusive leader is likely to me more demoralizing than otherwise.

In other words, I agree. Excellent post,

We have the right to see these pictures. We the People are no less important than our SERVANTS in Congress. Transparency, Mr. President! How dare you play Daddy and tell us we can’t take it. Show the pictures of your handy work. Or maybe that’s the reason you don’t want to show them, Mr. Nobel Peace Prize Winner!!!!!!

Covered with pig`s blood and the photo sent round the world.
After all, he couldn’t have really been a muslim.They don´t kill innocent civilians, do they?

. . .to extend the metaphor, is that our current leadership did not grow up playing ball. If they had, they might know that a spike, like a slam dunk or a slow trot around the bases, serves a purpose. And in war, it is only more true, not less. We are up against Barbarians who want nothing less than to drag all of Western Civilization back to the 16th Century. And our President is actually concerned about hurting their feelings.

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Then they get it both ways..that would be a genius move I think

Posting the photos would be gratifying in a lot of ways. I’m just not sure that it is the wisest choice to make when it comes to political strategy, and especially not 17 months before the election.

If the terrorists decide they want to seek vengeance, no amount of PC is going to stop them. I agree with you about that.

We’re already getting threats in, even without the photos. Give this admin a few days, and they’ll be spinning this one way or another, “never let a crisis go to waste”, and how we need greater ‘regulation” for the sake of “national security”. (Internet, more pat-downs, etc. etc.)

Put the photos out there, and the odds are that threats will go sky high, which could open the door for a couple of executive orders, maybe even an Internet gag order, designed with the purpose of “fundamentally transforming America” all under the guise of “protecting” us.

Just throwing around ideas and possibilities, that’s all.

I’m going to believe that the reason the WH changed their minds and decided not to post the pics is because instead of the pics showing a respectful Islamic funeral…they actually depicted something more akin to “Weekend At Bernies”.

Like…”Here’s Bin Laden getting ready to catapult off the deck…”

and a football is also known as a pigskin, isn’t that showing insensitivity toward Islam?

It is quite alright for Al Jezeera to broadcast the beheading of Americans on worldwide TV, but we can’t show a death photo of UBL? Not that I want to see it, but it plays into the hands of their elevating him as a prophet and not allowing pictures of him as with Mohammed. I say put the pictures up on the web where they will last forever as a reminder not to pi$$ us off.

obummasss is a pimp for the muslims and he shows his true loyaltys every time he opens that cavity beneath his nose….IMPEACH THIS USURPER NOW…

so to speak? Winners celebrate like winners except in the cse if your President is a loser. it is not only time to spike the ball but for dong a victory dance in the end zone. Obama’s Muslim heritage continues to ooze into our daily lives. we are not a Muslim nation we were a free society until Obama came along. Now we are letting Religion tightly control our government which was one of the major concerns by our founding fathers. yet here we are 235+ years later and the Religious leanings of our President are robbing us of our freedoms that we have paid dearly for with our blood over those past 200+ years. how could we let this happen? How could we after the 9/11 event even consider someone with a Muslim name and Muslim heritage to assume the Highest Office and most prestigious jobs in the world? It saddens me that we have come to this.

Obama was supposed the be the President that brings unity yet all he has done to to further alienate the races and to lessen our position in the world. How can anyone in any true love of this country and the values set forth by our founding fathers re-elect such a person or continue to support his destruction of our free society? i say it is not only time to spike the ball but then it is time to win one for the Gipper. To put it in Baseball terms “Throw the bum out”.

Anything to embarrass America.

Now I am not a conspiracy theorist nut but does anyone else find the timing a little suspicious here? I would like to see the photos my self.
P.S. Keeping in mind that he got an 11% jump in the polls even though gas is headed for 5 bucks a gallon!
I just want to make sure he is not wagging the dog.

I want pictures of the dog and I want to tell the Religion of the Perpetually Outraged just where they can put their misplaced anger. So they’ll riot, so what? What the heck is new?

The feelings of AMERICA and the appearance of strength FAR outweigh the sensitivities of 14th century cavedwellers that worship a pedophile.

If UBL wasn’t a Muslim, why did he get a Muslim burial and why was it the resposibility of our service men and women to soil themselves with the task of doing it?

Obama is no leader, he most certainly is not the one who called the shots on this. What a poser!