The Issue: Whether President Obama is exploiting the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Thanks for your editorial “Shameless” (May 2) — it might just as easily have been called “Classless.”
How can President Obama parade around as though he has serious accomplishments when, in fact, his administration has been a disaster?
His chest-thumping approach will never work.
Americans have seen him close up for more than three years, and his repeated end-zone dances make him look like one of PT Barnum’s circus clowns.
Fold up your circus tent, Obama. Americans want a class act back in the White House.
Tom Cahill
Manhattan
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Obama is so busy patting himself on the back that he has forgotten who the true heroes are.
They are the people who gathered 10 years of intelligence, spending years of their lives following up on countless leads, and the extremely brave and professional SEALs who put their lives on the line to kill this terrorist.
Obama has diminished the office of the presidency, but I don’t think that he realizes it.
Gail Nygaard
Westport, Conn.
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Unfortunately, the reason why Obama constantly boasts about having given the order to neutralize bin Laden is because he can’t boast about a sound economy, acceptable unemployment rates or a decline in the deficit during his presidency.
Inconvenient truths like these are why the Democrats are concentrating on bin Laden and not Obama’s dismal presidential record.
To echo a phrase used during Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Numan Arman
Flushing
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A spike is done right after the score, as President George W. Bush did with the banner on an aircraft carrier.
Now, one year later, Obama can commemorate a great event — one that Bush failed to accomplish in his time in office.
Greg Ehrlich
Haverstraw
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Obama’s victory lap for having given the order to kill bin Laden is wearing thin.
It’s ironic that the president is huffing and puffing about his successes while he has utilized every tool that was left to him by the Bush administration — all the terror-fighting tools that he criticized when he was Sen. Obama.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
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Obama is like a newly hired mason who puts in place the last few bricks of a cathedral and then claims the credit not only for building it but also for the architectural design.
Dave Becher
East Northport
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I’d rather have a president promote a “good vs. evil” accomplishment than a Republican Party constantly seeking to unseat a Democrat.
Get over it: The opportunity to get bin Laden occurred while Obama was in office, and he acted on it. He, and “we the people,” deserve the credit.
Shame on The Post for knocking an accomplishment that maintains freedom.
Paul Gruber
Manhattan
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Consider what would have happened had Obama not given the order to get bin Laden.
Sooner or later, it would have leaked out that we knew where bin Laden was and didn’t do anything about it.
The backlash from an angry public, delivered through the ubiquitous blogosphere, would have been deafening, and Obama would have been tarred with a “pantywaist-president” tag.
C. von Weissenfluh
Bend, Ore.
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Obama should be penalized for spiking the football and for his excessive celebration of a feat made possible only by the enhanced interrogation techniques employed under the auspices of the former administration.
Bush was correctly admonished for the “Mission Accomplished” sign on the deck of an aircraft carrier after the death of Saddam Hussein.
The theater extravaganza by this administration is nothing more than an attempt to shore up Obama’s falling poll numbers.
Robert Lisi
Bridgeport, Conn.