This just dumbfounds me:
More than three-quarters of all Americans say the president deserves credit for the killing of bin Laden in Pakistan on Sunday. Among Republicans, 61 percent say Obama deserves at least some credit for the move. But just 17 percent of them say he deserves a “great deal” of credit for bringing bin Laden to justice after a nearly 10-year pursuit by U.S. intelligence and military forces.
In other words, the Post poll is saying that almost 40 percent of Republicans don't believe Obama deserves
any credit for Sunday's military operation. I mean, who do they think ordered and orchestrated this risky operation? Who do they think chose a commando mission to extract proof of bin Laden's demise rather than carpet bombing Abbottabad? Can Obama get any credit for anything?
Looking at other polls, the answer is likely no. In early April, a Fox News poll indicated that 37 percent of Republicans believed that President Obama was not born in the United States. A similar CBS/New York Times poll in mid-April found that 45 percent of Republicans believed that Obama is not American born, and a Public Policy Polling result in February showed that 47 percent of Republicans believe that the President was born on foreign soil.
This Republican Party is marked by fierce partisanship to the point of group insanity. Just a few weeks ago, a large percentage of Republicans didn't believe that the President had the right to be Commander-in-Chief and now a similar percentage don't believe he deserves credit for acting quickly and decisively in protecting our nation from the world's most infamous terrorist.
Yesterday, former New York Governor George Pataki and New York Congresswoman Nan Hayworth were unable to mention the President or his administration in their statements about the killing of Osama bin Laden. What gives? Is this the next step after birtherism? Is it the new goal of the Republican party to stick their fingers in their collective ears and yell rather than give credit to our nation's leader just because he disagrees with them on many issues?
How terribly childish! Will this large segment of the Republican Party ever grow up?