Originally Posted by kane

While I am not going to defend Obama, I will say that he deserves credit for the Bin Laden, Gadhafi, and Anwar al-Awlak.

He played the Gadhafi game 100% correctly. He got Nato on our side. We spent about the same amount of money as we spend in one day funding Afghanistan and we lost zero American lives. Now, hopefully, the Libyan people will see us as friends, but we can't be sure.

This said, there is a poll that shows foreign affairs only takes up about 2-3% of what people care about right now. It is all about the economy so while these are big wins for Obama, they are, politically speaking, all for naught if the economy doesn't improve.

What amuses me to death is that the republicans will absolutely not give him any credit what's so ever. They will credit everyone but him or anyone who had anything to do with his administration. They are so entrenched in their game of getting him out of office that he could likely cure cancer and the republicans would complain about the cost or how long it took.