# Obama announcing death of Osama bin Laden \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435 "2011-05-02T02:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/201 "2011-05-02T04:04:45Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on May 1 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. So what? I only brought up Hitler because Bricker’s sanctimony irked me-just using a bit of hyperbole to make my point. This has nothing to do with Hitler, and I know how Hitler died. Sorry for the hijack, folks. And now back to the heartening news of Osama’s demise. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/202 "2011-05-02T04:06:01Z")
I was surprised to find myself feeling a great sense of relief. I would have expected the news to be too abstract to affect me emotionally. I even teared up a little. I was slightly annoyed that they cut off the end of my show just for endless blather when the real news announcement wasn’t happening for another hour. Wow they like to talk even when there’s nothing to say. I’m not looking forward to the ‘not really dead’ equivalent of birthers. > [@tnetennba](#): > > I hope the soldier who shot him is gay. You win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/203 "2011-05-02T04:07:15Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on May 1 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. George Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech: May 1, 2003. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/204 "2011-05-02T04:09:40Z")
Now, where did they put that ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/205 "2011-05-02T04:09:42Z")
If the soldier who shot him is gay, Fox News will announce, “Bin Laden a victim of the gay agenda.” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/206 "2011-05-02T04:10:32Z")
This celebration outside the White House must be eating the right wing media alive. How is Rush Limbaugh going to spin this as a some kind of a failure tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/207 "2011-05-02T04:11:25Z")
Wiki has already updated [Bin Laden’s bio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/208 "2011-05-02T04:13:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > This celebration outside the White House must be eating the right wing media alive. How is Rush Limbaugh going to spin this as a some kind of a failure tomorrow? Well, during the winter they showed fake footage to make the Wisconsin labor budget protests look violent by showing footage clearly shot in California - so they’ll just show a clip of a quiet somber [January] morning outside the White House. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/209 "2011-05-02T04:13:50Z")
I think it’s the **Hammer of Thor**! ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/210 "2011-05-02T04:14:04Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Thank you and bless you and your son. I was saying similar to my husband. I couldn’t put it into proper words. He came up with exactly the right one: > > CLOSURE Thank you, Shayna. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/211 "2011-05-02T04:14:54Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Wait a minute… > > Bush was the crazy asshole who got us in all this trouble. Obama ran on getting us out of those shitholes post haste. You really have your facts wrong on this one. Obama campaigned on ramping UP the effort in Afghanistan, and on finding Bin Laden. He was clear and consistent on that point. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/212 "2011-05-02T04:15:11Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I’m not looking forward to the ‘not really dead’ equivalent of birthers. Of course there are those who say he’s been dead for years: > [@Elsewhere on the 'Net](#): > > Osama bin Laden has been dead for at least six years, probably before 9/11 happened. > > This is a scam. > > We will probably see an attack on our own soil again and the same people will be behind it. > > Here’s a hint: > > IT AIN’T A BUNCH OF MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/213 "2011-05-02T04:15:59Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > This celebration outside the White House must be eating the right wing media alive. How is Rush Limbaugh going to spin this as a some kind of a failure tomorrow? First they’ll deny he’s dead – that it’s mistaken identity. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/214 "2011-05-02T04:16:28Z")
Best quote so far about Osama bin Laden: “Everyone knows that Obama’s birth certificate was one of Bin Laden’s horcruxes.” ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/215 "2011-05-02T04:16:30Z")
[Phillies Mets](http://www.brobible.com/bronews/crowd-usa-chant-osama-bin-laden)game as news breaks out ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/216 "2011-05-02T04:16:52Z")
ABC reported that this was NOT a joint effort with Pakistan. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/217 "2011-05-02T04:17:16Z")
Am I the only one who thinks it’s creepy that thousands of people are gathering to cheer about someone’s death. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/218 "2011-05-02T04:17:33Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > So what? I only brought up Hitler because Bricker’s sanctimony irked me-just using a bit of hyperbole to make my point. This has nothing to do with Hitler, and I know how Hitler died. > > Sorry for the hijack, folks. And now back to the heartening news of Osama’s demise. Psst. May 1. Same day. Weird. 66 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/219 "2011-05-02T04:18:42Z")
I _really_ hope there will be video of the assault. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435/220 "2011-05-02T04:19:19Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Psst. May 1. Same day. Weird. 66 years ago. 5/01. 5 + 1 = 6 And 66 years ago. 666! OMG! The Anti-Christ! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-announcing-death-of-osama-bin-laden-edited-title/580435.md?page=12)