What a night
So. Osama Bid Laden is dead.
Wow. I was at work when we saw that one of the TVs had stopped showing whatever show, and Obama was on the screen - I was a bit curious, and then my coworker J said "Osama Bin Laden is dead", reading the headline.
Not something you hear every night.
I watched Obama's speech on my way home, and Americans - you know that you have an amazing fucking orator for a President, right? I don't know whether or not Obama writes his own speeches, but I'm sure he has a hand in them and reflect his views on how to handle things, and that was pretty brilliantly handled. Walking the thin line between triumph without stirring up anti-Islam sentiment - and not only that, he BLATANTLY said that this is not a war on Islam, or Muslims. It is a war on terrorism, and I love that he said that. I love that he said that bin Laden killed Muslims, too - thousands of them.
I can't help but think that a speech from Bush would have been entirely different.
I hope this brings closure to at least some of those who lost friends or family members on 9/11.
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Wow. I was at work when we saw that one of the TVs had stopped showing whatever show, and Obama was on the screen - I was a bit curious, and then my coworker J said "Osama Bin Laden is dead", reading the headline.
Not something you hear every night.
I watched Obama's speech on my way home, and Americans - you know that you have an amazing fucking orator for a President, right? I don't know whether or not Obama writes his own speeches, but I'm sure he has a hand in them and reflect his views on how to handle things, and that was pretty brilliantly handled. Walking the thin line between triumph without stirring up anti-Islam sentiment - and not only that, he BLATANTLY said that this is not a war on Islam, or Muslims. It is a war on terrorism, and I love that he said that. I love that he said that bin Laden killed Muslims, too - thousands of them.
I can't help but think that a speech from Bush would have been entirely different.
I hope this brings closure to at least some of those who lost friends or family members on 9/11.
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comments at Dreamwidth. http://kerri.dreamwidth.org/675692.html#comments