he took the harder and the more honorable path. than the one in my opinion got the best result. the president made a clear grave decision in power the remarkable men and women of our military to get and kill usama bin laden. i think americans around the world are glad he s gone but we don t need to spike the football. eric: fail to mention the navy seals and the intel to pull off the mission and most importantly the reason we were ever in a position to kill bin laden to declare a war on terror by the bush administration. so/i ll do it for you. thank you, seal team six and c.i.a. intelligence gathers and thank you george bush and dick cheney.
first time. now he is out there in a powerful ad praising the bin laden raid. he took the harder, and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. at the fundraiser last night he said when you become president, your job is to explain where we are, say where you think we should go, have a strategy to get there, and execute it. by that standard, barack obama deserves to be reelected president of the united states. that scream is coming from the rnc headquarters, why? president clinton can be
being run that features former president clinton. here s a portion of it. it s one thing george bush said that was right. the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hadn t been bin laden. suppose they d been captured and killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. so you ve heard ed gillespie. you ve seen senator john mccain saying this is over the line.
here is a campaign ad that is being run that features former president clinton. here s a portion of it. it s one thing george bush said that was right. the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hadn t been bin laden. suppose they d been captured and killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. so you ve heard ed gallespie. you ve seen senator john mccain
called were in this order george walker bush and then bill clinton because he knew at some level both men had tried to actually kill bin laden and had been unable to do it. reporter: public reaction a year ago may not have been as solemn as the phone calls sound. it is nonetheless true that bin laden s death was greeted then across party lines as a matter of justice, not politics. candy crowley, cnn, washington. top of the hour. i m suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a witness to robert kennedy s assassination says there was a second gunman. nina says her claim was overlooked back in 1968 and that someone altered the testimony she gave. but she remembers it vividly. i can hear the rhythm of the gunshots in my head, and i know first i thought it was flash bulbs. it was pop, pop and then pop, pop, pop, very rapid fire to my right in back of senator kennedy. convicted assassin sirhan sirhan is asking a court to release him from prison or give him a new tria