Obama spikes the football [Reader Post]

“we don’t need to spike the football,” said Barack Obama in regard to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. Then Obama went out and spiked the football at Ground Zero and elsewhere.

Obama addressed the troops at Fort Campbell

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama, basking in U.S. public approval for the killing of Osama bin Laden, flew to a military base in Kentucky on Friday to thank special forces who carried out the deadly raid and led a rally filled with cheering troops.

As he rightly congratulated all those involved in the mission, Obama could not avoid the first person reference:

Incitement to violence is fine if it damages Bush [Reader Post]

After deciding to release the Osama Bin Laden death images Barack Obama has decided against releasing them.

“We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies” said Obama.

“…we don’t need to spike the football” said Obama.

And he added:

The worst Attorney General in the history of the US [Reader Post]

I never thought I’d say it, but I miss Janet Reno. I never thought I’d ever again see an Attorney General of such incompetence, yet here we are.

In what CNN calls “A long line of Obama shifts” Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammaed would be tried in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court. The poor man whined about Congress interfering and forcing him to try KSM in the military rather than the civilian system. He made it clear that he believes he knows better than Congress what to do with KSM: