We're Supposed To Be Talking About The One

Barack Hussein Obama is unhappy that, since the killing of Osama bin Laden, the conversation has turned to water boarding and away from the wonderfulness of Barack Hussein Obama.

Officials inside the Obama administration have grown discouraged by the abruptness with which the news over the killing of Osama bin Laden has turned into a debate over the efficacy of harsh interrogation techniques and torture. 


Just days after the al Qaeda leader was killed in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the political conversation has shifted from the implications of the assassination to questions of whether the waterboarding of valuable detainees was crucial in gathering intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts.

Defenders of the interrogation technique raised the issue, earning write-ups in several high-profile publications, including The New York Times and Time magazine. It was also put forward in most bin Laden-related news interviews with Obama officials. The problem, those officials stress, is that questioning the effectiveness of waterboarding in the bin Laden case oversimplifies a complex issue to which there may not be any concrete answers.

 Of course, if Barack Hussein Obama possessed the grace and generosity to give credit to his predecessor and admit that his criticism of Bush Administration tactics were excessive and misguided, this wouldn't be a problem.