Now You Can Play the Lee Greenwood

"Not bad, Great Satan. Not bad at all."

There are so many reasons to be proud to be an American right now, not the least of which was the measured surgical shooting of Osama bin Laden in his left eye. Come on. Even some of his guys must have thought to themselves "Not bad, Great Satan. Not bad at all." If the Soldiers on this mission retire any time soon, I want stock in the restaurant they open together. They should call it Forty for the number of minutes they can have you in and out. 


Tonight I feel more proud than I did last night. That is because we have actually withstood a test; 24 hours since word of the death of bin Laden and no news reports of antimuslim violence in America. There are those character-lacking goobs we all know of who in a situation like this would go up to whoever they suspected of being Muslim and shout "In your face!" But none of that. As a matter of fact, two different headlines I perused described American Muslims as feeling "relieved." Though I did not read the articles yet I am going to assume these American Muslim feel like this whole dead bin Laden thing takes a little heat off them. 


I'm guessing that the people who have been making things uncomfortable for American Muslims feel like they have the last word and are thus victorious. Does that mean all bets are off if we are attacked again, God forbid? I should stop asking so many questions for once and just be glad for the serenity.


The honeymoon in Washington, if not pride-inspiring is refreshing. Let's see how long the name calling, the blame game, and the rancor remains at bay. After all, Donald Trump was pretty pissed at Seth Meyers' insults at the corespondents dinner on Saturday night. That's what CNN was covering before Obama charitably preempted the "news" Sunday night. When they weren't talking about Trump it was gas prices, unemployment, and debt ceiling. The only mention of that stuff today was how it may now be easier for Obama to get cooperation (yeah right). It would be great though. Imagine how much Obama could get done if he threw in a Muammar Gaddafi. If they can beat the forty minutes it took to get bin Laden, Obama should get to pick who he runs against in 2012.

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