Rudy Giuliani praises Barack Obama

[RandySF]

Rudy Giuliani praised President Obama's "courage" for the risky method he chose to take down Osama bin Laden, adding his death is a "significant step" in the war on terror - but saying the tones of jubilation feel strange to him.

"I feel a great deal of satisfaction that justice has been done, and I admire the courage of the president to make a decision like this because if something had gone wrong everyone would be blaming him," Giuliani told POLITICO Monday morning in his first comments since the capture. "And I admire the courage and professionalism of our military intelligence officials who carried this out and this is a great victory against terror. Nobody can minimize it. He was a symbol more than anything else right now but ... symbols are really important."

Calling it a "significant step," he added: "I feel satisfaction and some emotional relief, but I don't feel great elation. I watch a lot of the celebrating and it makes me feel a little strange, I don't know. Nothing erases the loss of all those lives. ... so I feel satisfaction and I feel the right thing has been done. and I guess it will good thing ultimately but I don't feel like celebrating the end of World War II, because the war is still going on."



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54089.html#ixzz1LCxzQcnz

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. So the "community organizer, hee hee hee" has courage now? OK good on him. nt

[Renew Deal]

2. Guiliani is right about something...

"I admire the courage of the president to make a decision like this because if something had gone wrong everyone would be blaming him,"

There are also a few cooks that blame him for success.

[Bucky]

3. They way Republicans are just piling on the qualifiers is annoying

None of them are just saying "good job, troops; good job, Mr President." Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Ru-dai, This is about the whole country winning, not about the leader of the Democrats winning. A grown up can see the difference.