And the bastards wife….. (Via Zippy) Obama gettin’ all Patton on us: “Our strategy is working, and there is no greater evidence of that than justice finally being delivered to Osama bin Laden” – FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — President Barack Obama capped a week of somber and sometimes celebratory events following the successful strike against Osama bin Laden with a rally for U.S. troops, where he held up the al Qaeda leader’s slaying as evidence that his Afghanistan war strategy is working.
“This has been an historic week in the life of our nation,” Mr. Obama said, addressing more than 2,000 uniformed service members in an aircraft hangar used to welcome home troops from Afghanistan.

“The terrorist leader who struck our nation on 9/11 will never threaten America again,” he said. “Our strategy is working, and there is no greater evidence of that than justice finally being delivered to Osama bin Laden.”

Before stepping on stage, Mr. Obama spent more than an hour with some of the special operations forces who carried out the late-night raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed bin Laden.
They briefed Mr. Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden on the operation. During the closed-door meeting, the president awarded the units involved the Presidential Unit Citation, according to the White House, the highest such honor that can be given to a unit.

“These Americans deserve credit for one of the greatest intelligence and military operations in our nation’s history,” Mr. Obama later said in his remarks.

For the first time in his public statements since bin Laden’s death, Mr. Obama pivoted toward the next critical foreign policy decision of his presidency: how many troops to pull out of Afghanistan in two months, the start of a deadline he set for beginning the drawdown of forces.
He said the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, which began 10 years ago this fall to overthrow the Taliban regime that had harbored bin Laden, is “moving into a new phase.”
Roughly 100,000 U.S. troops are currently serving in Afghanistan since Mr. Obama ordered a surge 17 months ago. Mr. Obama’s strategy calls for troop withdrawal to begin in July, but the number of departing troops is not clear. The U.S. and other ally nations have agreed to maintain a presence in Afghanistan through 2014, although the White House has said it would keep troops there longer if the Afghan government requests. . . .
But officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere have cautioned against a withdrawal that threatens recent gains in the country. . . .
Mr. Obama noted that few have felt the burden of the post-9/11 world more than American troops, many of whom have spent years in Iraq or Afghanistan.

“I know it hasn’t been easy for you and it hasn’t, certainly, been easy for your families,” Mr. Obama said. “Since 9/11, no base has deployed more often, and few bases have sacrificed more, than you.”
“We are going to ultimately defeat al Qaeda,” Mr. Obama said. “We have cut off their head and we will ultimately defeat them.” . . . (keep reading)

Then the Bastards Wife finds a way to spin it “All About Them”…. Mooch takes a victory lap, lauds Navy SEALs as “the essence of the word ‘service’” and somehow leaps from their service to hers – (ABC News) — First lady Michelle Obama today praised the bravery of the Navy SEALs who carried out the raid on Osama bin Laden, calling it “the essence of the word ‘service,’” in her commencement address at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
The theme of her address to the graduating students was the value of service to others.

“Just imagine, a small group of brave men, dropped by helicopter, half a world away in the dead of night into unknown danger inside the lair of the most wanted man in the world,” said the first lady. “They did not hesitate, risking everything for us, for our freedom and security.
“And they did it not just as Navy SEALs. They did it as husbands, as fathers, as sons,” she said. “Their families were back here, with no idea of their mission or whether their loved one would ever come home. That is the very essence of the word ‘service.’
“And the least we can do is give something back to these troops and their families who have given us so much.”

This speech marks the first time a person from the White House administration to directly publicly acknowledge the SEALs’ role in the raid on bin Laden.
Obama’s commencement address was also the first of the 2011 graduation season and her first visit to Iowa since the 2008 presidential election, which she warmly talked about during the 30-minute speech.

“The more that I shared my story with all of you and you shared your stories with me, the more I realized that what truly connects us is our shared values, in the end there is so much more that unites us than divides us,” Obama said.

The first lady also spoke to the black-gowned students about quitting her job at a Chicago law firm to start a career of public service.

“I found that I would wake up every day with excitement, with a sense of purpose and possibility, because I was finally doing something that made me feel fully alive,” she said. “And graduates, that’s what I wish for all of you today — for you to find that career, that calling, that makes you feel alive.” . . . (read more)

Yup, the self-centered, egotistical, narcissistic, both the bastard and the bastards wife can find any number of infinite ways to always make it about them. They are insufferable…….. /SD