Seymour Hersh report: WH lied about Bin Laden raid

We've been playing a game with Pakistani government officials for years where they scream about how pissed off they are to appease elements within their constituencies. It happens every time we drone some militant out of existence in the Northwest frontier. IF it turns out there was some amount of subterfuge to give people political cover relative to Bin Laden's death, I'm ok with it.

 

That number would be astronomically high if the previous president was still in office.

 

The previous president had a 90 percent approval rating right after Bin Laden's attack. You sure about that statement?

 

Know your audience. If the president did lie, the great majority don't care. Unless it's the previous president.

 

That's because the "great majority" voted for this one, while the previous president actually lost the popular election. So it would make sense that popular opinion would fall that way.

 

Even some Democrats actually professed their love of the U.S. in the days weeks after 9/11. Those were very unusual times.

But to answer your question, I'm 100% sure about that statement.

 

Not in 2004.

And since when is 52.9% the "great majority"?

 

I'm just saying that it would make sense that the majority of Americans would tend to take the president's side here and not the prior president's side in a similar situation, as this president won the popular vote twice whereas the previous president lost the popular vote once in two attempts.

 

Yeah, numbers can be a pesky thing.

Bush got 12 million MORE votes in his second run, Obama got 3.5 million fewer votes in his second run (and only 51.1%).

 

I'm just saying that this president won the popular vote twice, while the prior president won the popular vote once, but lost it to Al Gore another time. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

So you're saying Democrats don't love their country. Hmmm, interesting.

 

And Bush never carried fewer than 30 states, Obama never more than 28. Lots of ways to look at things.