The Corporatist spin machine went into high gear with the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed. They immediately began downplaying the Obama administration's role in getting bin Laden, portraying it instead as just a continuation of the Bush administrations efforts. Rumsfeld, parroting the talking points, said he was thankful Obama had the wisdom to continue Shrub's efforts.
It's not true.
As discussed at Think Progress, the Bushies actually lost interest in bin Laden and dropped his capture well down their priority list. Bush was open about that, repeatedly stating that bin Laden was not on his radar. He was focused on other things, like his screw up in Iraq.
Obama, by contrast, brought the bin Laden file back to the top of the pile as he had promised to do in his campaign. He threw government intelligence resources back into tracking and locating the al Qaeda chief. And Obama succeeded where Bush gave up.
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I'm loath to give Obama credit for anything, and I'm very skeptical of "the official line" coming out of Washington, regardless of who's in office. But you are absolutely correct that Bush didn't give a rat's buttocks about catching or killing Bin Laden. Why should he have been? The Bush and Bin Laden families were, as they say in Georgia, as close as seven in a bed. If Obama did get Bin Laden, good enough. That's what he was elected to do.
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