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Obama Planned Bin Laden Mission In Midst Of Filling Out NCAA Bracket


Hey, remember when everyone said President Obama was wasting his time filling out an NCAA tournament bracket while the world fell apart around him?

In case you need a refresher:

Well, it turns out Obama did find time to do something meaningful in the midst of dithering away with his bracket: he started planning the midnight raid that would kill Osama bin Laden.

On March 15th, ESPN and its camera crew came to the White House to film a segment in which the President revealed his NCAA tournament picks. According to this New York Times report, Obama met with his national security team the day before to discuss the bin Laden mission.

On March 14, Mr. Obama held the first of what would be five national security meetings in the course of the next six weeks to go over plans for the operation.

The meetings, attended by only the president’s closest national security aides, took place as other White House officials scrambled to avert a possible government shutdown over the budget.

The most remarkable thing about this, of course, is that Obama’s tournament picks turned out to be creepily accurate: on March 19th, after two full days of tournament action, his bracket was ranked 492nd out of nearly six million on ESPN.com. Eventually, he’d fall back down to earth, but still: he must have been focused that week.



  • Anonymous
  • Mcmmom

    That’s the biggest load of malarky I have ever read! OhBummer didn’t plan that mission. What in the world does he know about military strategy? About as much as he knows about the economy – less than zero! Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! WHAT A JOKE!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D7ZXLQWAIWYID3S5BJYQEETHTQ DavidT

    And it took him that long to approve the attack, that is believable! He is like Jay Leno, not really ready for prime time!

  • tober

    They should shut up, every dumb ass ill informed thing they the say turn out to be WRONG! Sorry Mcmmom, DavidTyou just can’t take it, or touch him.

  • Rocks

    You’ve got to be joking.

  • http://twitter.com/maxtcat maxtcat

    Planned it all by himself, did he?

  • chatmandu002

    Our Campaigner-in-Chief spent more time on the NCAA bracket than he did on any actual military mission planning. He doesn’t know crap about military mission planning. All he said was go ahead and get it done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1227072213 Mickey Morgan

    A regular Eisenhower this guy is. Exactly what part of the mission did he plan?

  • Sgt. York

    Obama took time out from his bracket picking to say “Yes, go ahead with that.” How am I supposed to be impressed? (He didn’t plan jack squat).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    Sure, and FDR planned the d-day invasion all by himself with nobody’s help.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • redc1c4

    yeah, sure: Junior was involved in the planning of a J-SOC operation.

    he isn’t even capable of carrying the jock of a member of DEVGRU, ODD, or a Nightstalker crew member, let alone planning a complex multiservice operation on the other side of the world.

    MFM please: if you’re going to lie in support of your pet, please make it believable. all effective propaganda relies on that principle. if, however, you were just trying to give us a life in the face or record unemployment, inflation and the ongoing economic depression, you’ve succeeded.

  • http://twitter.com/mesjoliesfleurs Carnivale

    A man with no military training whatsoever planned this out, did he? In less time than it took to fill out his NCAA bracket?

    A man who won’t allow troops to have bullets in the chambers of their weapons while on patrol in Afghanistan planned this mission, really?

    Bet you have bought lots of oceanfront property in Arizona.

  • Anonymous

    I’d love to see an OPORD that came from his pen…hahahaha

    And he specified infil/exfil routes I bet – hahahaha

    Not too probable that he did much of anything other than ask if the mission timing would still allow him to play golf that day

  • Avor

    David, Get Over Yourself. It’s clear you’re nothing more than a fool, a hater, and as dump as a box of rocks! Yikes!

  • Vivic63

    Racist fool

  • Factuss

    Gregie boy, what are you smoking? Clearly a southern _______. Some people’s kids! LOL

  • Darconeous

    Say what you will, he is the President of the U.S.A. Your status is? LOL

  • Intreveus

    Presidents don’t plan military operations you idiot, they approve them. There are really a lot of un- and under-informed so-called Americans showing their stupidity and ignorance writing dumb stuff on these boards. Some of you folks are lost balls in high weeds.

  • http://twitter.com/mesjoliesfleurs Carnivale

    You’re the stupid and ignorant one; we are responding to the title of this article which clearly says:

    “Obama Planned Bin Laden Mission In Midst Of Filling Out NCAA Bracket”

    Did you not read the article??? Here is a quote: “he started planning the midnight raid that would kill Osama bin Laden”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    I was joking, Avor. Don’t you get satire?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    So what? It means nothing. You people didn’t respect Bush, what makes you think we’re gonna respect Obama? Revenge is sweet, Obama-lover!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    Yeah, and it took him 16 hours to approve it. So even when everyone else does his job for him, he can’t do that little thing. I would have approved that killing in a second.
    “Sir, we’re ready to kill Bin Laden.”
    “Go ahead.”

    There, was that so hard?
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Anonymous

    Then that’s where that photo came from ! They were all sitting around watching the NCAA Tournament ! Must have been some pretty serious pools going around. I knew they called Obama after the fact.

  • Bill

    My BS detector just exploded.

  • redc1c4

    my status is: retired veteran with more experience planning and executing military operations than the First Failure has.

    his status: complete and utter failure in life, Presentdent or not. he has already eclipsed Jimmuh Carter as worst president ever and continues to extend his lead. hell, he couldn’t even manage to make something the American people approve of look good.

    sorry, but it takes a special kind of “fail” to screw things up the way he does and it takes a special kind of dumb to think that it’s a good thing that he manages to do so.

  • Anonymous

    http://socyberty.com/issues/white-house-insider-obama-hesitated-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/

    Obama planned nothing! Obama and Valarie Jarrett kept saying no to each plan that Panetta, Gates, and Clinton came up with. They had to pull Obama off the Golf Course to get him to come to the Situation Room! That is why he is looking like a whipped puppy in the photo, his people overruled him, Praise God! There is no doubt in my mind that this UnAmerican President would sell us out to the highest bidder if left up to him and Jarrett! NOBAMA 2012!

  • Anonymous

    The majority of you posting on here can’t be as naive about how presidential powers operate and the powers of cabinet members such as the CIA Director. But I guess I am probably wrong about that if you believe what you wrote.

    The president does not have to write an entire plan of a mission- that is what the military is for and why he has the joint chiefs and the Secretary of Defense and all those folks that are there to advise. Every president has such advisers. This president held all the planning meetings so they could present all the varieties of information to him as well as, I’m sure, the odds of success and the risks to soldiers and civilians alike. Contrary to the assertions of the first poster, no one overrides the president. Period. Any such claim is absolute bull crap. Complete and utter lies. Didn’t happen that way. There is no question that the president made the final decision about the plan that was put into play and he alone would be responsible if it went wrong. The fact is that he had the courage to make the choice and the and the faith in the Navy Seals that they would carry out the mission successfully. And they did. The picture of them all watching as the situation played out – the concern is in their faces, especially the presidents- because he was ultimately responsible for the outcome. All of you that obviously hate him for whatever your reasons still can’t take away from him- what the world knows- he ok’d the mission to go get Osama Bin Laden and he, along with the men who went in- deserve the credit for taking him down.

  • Anonymous

    If you believe that- I have a bridge to sell you. You obviously don’t know anything about presidential powers or the powers of the cabinet members. No one overrides the president. No one. His is the ultimate decision. If they operated outside what he orders or expects, heads will roll. You can not possibly believe that clap trap! I hope they aren’t paying money for those “tips”! Or they are getting what they deserve.

  • Objectiv31

    @youmustbejoking:disqus I feel your pain. These detractors are on every forum on the Internet trying to portray President Obama as un-American with their bad grammar – which is revealing in itself. Some people clearly don’t understand how their own government works and indeed how their government has been active in providing a fairer environment for them. They are prepared to believe anything just to deny the President any credit. I think the President’s intelligence is an object of envy for these people.

    Anybody reading the article could tell that the writer was just being patriotic an he used a some exaggeration and sports analogy as an expression of his excitement for what all Americans are grateful for. He would have done the same no matter who was president. Some, unfortunately cannot see it that way.

  • Anonymous

    You actually think Obama helped plan this attack? If so, then your name fits you perfectly! Let me ask you this, if a President is so obviously incompetentz, as Obama

  • Anonymous

    You are not reading very well. He doesn’t have to be an expert in everything that a president has to deal with – no person is- which is why they have advisers and cabinet members. After the inauguration, President Obama told the CIA Director to come up with a plan within 4 months to track, find and apprehend Bin Laden. Once they found him they came up with possible plans and expected results. The president considered all the angles and outcomes and made the decision as to which plan they would undertake. Because he felt strongly that they needed to verify that they had the right person, he ordered this plan. If you read about it, you would know they have been practicing for about a month with a mock up of the Bin Laden compound. I did not say that the president planned the incursion- I only said he decided which plan to go with. No one else can override the president as the claim you made above. His cabinet members have said that he made one of the toughest decisions a president can make when he made that call. It demonstrates his faith in the military and the Seal team who would mount the raid and his determination that we would track Osama Bin Laden and he would pay for his crimes against America. He said it would be done if he was president and it was.
    And by the way- your assertions make you the joke!

  • Anonymous

    Did you know thay are having a sale on ObambiKoolade today. You might want to go out and stock up. Also, they are having a sale of Obambi Lookalike sex dolls you might consider buying, to fullfill your fantasies, you can pretend you have a Great President anytime you want, no reality will show outside your bedroom walls. I do pray your eyes and brain engage someday and you can live a normal life without having to wait on your welfare check from your Messiah.

  • Anonymous

    So you have just proved you are a complete and total idiot and you can’t spell. Anyone who has to post such stupidity as you just did isn’t worth any more of my time or effort. You are a LOSER. Get lost jerk.

  • Anonymous

    Aww, don’t go away mad, just go away! I also don’t have time to mess with idiots such as yourself. I just don’t understand how people, like you, can continue sucking Obama’s butt. Must be a mental thing for you Progressive Pukes. Now, call me Racist, isn’t that what you Leftists usually throw out when your can’t get your brains in gear?

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