President Obama needed it. With polls numbers tanking and the economy heading south and his job approval ratings going under, he needed a big break.
He had recently announced his re-election bid but there was no major national success to endear Americans to him for another run in the White House.
The Republic field is not any better but still the President needed some dramatic achievement and then came along Osama Bin Laden.
Osama Bin Laden the architect of the September 11th attacks and the ideological head of the islamic extremist world had alluded capture by two preceding Presidents. Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Dubya wanted him even more badly.
It is amazing how western leaders use dramatic military conquests to boost their dismal poll ratings. France's Sarkozy hit Libya with bombs partly to reboot his diminishing presidency. For Obama, the Osama Bin Laden victory may be his single most visible achievement yet.
It reminds me of 'Wag the Dog' a movie in which a faltering presidency hatches up a civil conflict to divert attention from dismal poll ratings.
The political capital of the Osama killing for Barack Obama? Deng Xio Peng of 1970's China once remarked that it is still too early to tell the effects of the French Revolution.
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