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Courtesy photo / Osama bin Laden, the face of evil, is no more.While Rome burned, Nero fiddled; while right-wing zealots played trivial pursuit with everything from bungling the budget to simpering over our sex lives, Barack Obama managed a major miracle in pursuit of justice. The death penalty served on Osama bin Laden was well earned and righteously delivered.
From Birther nonsense to lies about his religious affiliation to the thievery of democracy by the plutocracy, the president has been subjected to enemies at home as vicious as any from abroad.
Despite every obstruction a tea partying Congress has thrown in his path, it is our president who teed Bin Laden into ocean waters in a manner not unlike the answer our over-taxed forefathers gave King George III in Boston Harbor.
No budget battle on the home front, no filibuster from the folks focusing on financial advantages, no enhancement of the deficit, no fear-monger interference with the prospect of an Obama success, no political posturing or right-wing pseudo piety was allowed to sabotage this, the most courageous and intelligent action brought to fruition in a well-planned attack.
The extinction of Pure Evil, as symbolic an answer to 9/11 as its message to a sub-human target, may be long overdue, but is no less effective for all that.
Suppose, now, we Americans listen to the message Barack Obama has been trying to get across. Too much government is not the answer; smart government is. He is our president and he deserves a another four years in the White House to continue the job of fighting terrorism and digging us out of the economic abyss caused by the failed policies and eight long years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Republicans who complain about governmental interference have no objection to tyranny when it involves the most private decisions and rights to privacy of its entire female population.
Male supremacy, not salvation of the fertilized egg motivates their attempt to return women to slavery, disguised under the pious auspices of religious zeal.
Non-issues such as choice and gay marriage preoccupy an ignorant and indolent congress while education is deliberately under-funded so that ignorance may rule the voting public.
Meanwhile, President Obama has quietly, intelligently and efficiently pulled off a major miracle, and in doing so, has won a well-deserved victory over his game-playing detractors and the support of the American people for a second term in 2012.