McCAIN RAPS OBAMA ON BIN LADEN – AT 10:16 A.M. ET:  John McCain, who should have been president, has said what a lot of us have been thinking:  It's disgraceful for President Obama to take so much credit for the bin Laden raid.

The first anniversary of the raid comes up this week, and the Obamans are doing all they can to make it a plus for their guy's re-election campaign, including letting NBC News, a division of the Democratic Party, into the situation room of the White House.  I must say that it is surly, and something I haven't seen often in American politics.  Usually, presidents give the credit to the people who risked their lives and carried out the attack.  The president may bask in the glow, but the spotlight is on the troops.  From The Hill:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) rebuked President Obama on Friday for using the anniversary of Obama bin Laden's death to score political points, calling it a "shameless end-zone dance."

"Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad," McCain said in a statement circulated by the Republican National Committee.

With the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's killing approaching next week, Obama's campaign released a video Friday suggesting that Mitt Romney, the putative GOP nominee, would not have ordered the risky incursion into Pakistan to nab the 9/11 mastermind.

The video doubled down on remarks that Vice President Biden made Thursday questioning whether Romney had the fortitude to pull off such an operation.

"This is the same President who said, after bin Laden was dead, that we shouldn't 'spike the ball' after the touchdown," McCain said. "And now Barack Obama is not only trying to score political points by invoking Osama bin Laden, he is doing a shameless end-zone dance to help himself get reelected."

COMMENT:  The Dems are trying, as they did in 2008, to portray Obama as a centrist, which he is clearly not.  Problem is, it may work again.  Republicans must paint an accurate picture of this man, and provide a vision of what he will do as he runs wild during a second term.

April 28, 2012