The same Navy SEAL team that killed Usama bin-Laden made a daring rescue yesterday in Somalia. They rescued an American woman and a Danish man, and left nine Somali pirate kidnappers dead. The hostages were not injured.
The first indication of the rescue operation came Tuesday night in Washington from President Barack Obama himself.
As the president entered the House chambers to give his State of the Union Speech, he pointed to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta standing in the crowd and said, “Leon. Good job tonight. Good job tonight.”
The president made no mention of the hostage rescue, but finished his speech with a reference to the killing of Osama bin Laden last May in a similar operation to the one conducted by Navy SEALs Tuesday night.
It’s eerily similar to the speech he made at the White House Correspondents Dinner when he knew that he had ordered the mission to get bin-Laden. The president lives a charmed life. His State of the Union address was bookended by Mitt Romney’s embarrassing tax returns which fit perfectly with his theme of economic fairness, and another successful SEAL mission which reinforced his reminder that he, not Bush, got justice for the 9/11 attacks.
If running the country were a game of craps, Obama would be the hot roller. Jimmy Carter, not so much. Remember that Obama got to the U.S. Senate by beating Alan Keyes, and to the White House by beating Sarah Palin. At some point you have to consider that he’s preternaturally lucky. And he’s taking the rest of us along for the ride.
Go Newt!!
