Considering the stark partisan divide over the amount of credit President Obama deserves for the death of Osama bin Laden, it should probably not come as a surprise that billionaire David Koch, a rabidly anti-Obama conservative activist, isn't ready to throw any praise Obama’s way. Strolling toward the dining area last night at the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Spring Ball, he told us that it was the military and intelligence agencies that deserved all the credit, while “all that Obama did was say 'yea' or 'nay,' we’re going to take him out or not. I don’t think he contributed much at all.” He continued:
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He just made the decision, it was obvious where the guy is. He was one of the worst terrorists organizing attacks on the United States. I mean, no president in his right mind would not approve that decision to go eliminate him. So he’s getting a lot of recognition and his polls have jumped up, but his decision was the easiest of them all. The real hard work was done by the intelligence and the SEALs.
This man helps to run a company with thousands of employees but he makes probably 1,000 times what any of his employees do. So he's fine with him reaping massive rewards because he's in charge. But Obama gets no credit for what the intelligence and military people working for him do?
Either Obama deserves credit, or David Koch needs to send all his employees a truly ginormous check. Choose one, David.
Oh, and this last bit is just gob-smacking.
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Obama is "a hardcore socialist," Koch told us, "and he’s marvelous at pretending to be something other than that, but that is what I believe he truly is, a hardcore socialist. He’s scary to me."
Well, David, the feeling is mutual. It's scary to me that you can fund different "think tanks" and candidates to advance your peculiar view that those who own companies deserve all the benefits but those who run governments do nothing of value.
Oh, and one more thing.
Fuck you.
I find this to be an excellent cartoon, apropos nothing.