This is an important albeit short article. Of course it is all about him. Given the silver-tongued, narcissistic demagogue that he is, it is not surprising that Obama is claiming credit.  I am an Independent, and not a Republican or a Democrat. Today, Independents constitute approximately 35 percent of American voters, and they make the difference in our elections. In 2008, they voted in favor of Obama and his far-Left Democrats. Last November, they voted against Obama and his Democrats.  Most Americans are very pleased that bin Laden is history; however, our "Community-Organizer-In-Chief" Obama deserves almost zero credit. Osama's death is a victory for U.S. intelligence and the American military, not for Obama who has been "gutting" our military and plans more of the same. This is precisely why Leon Panetta is going to the Pentagon.  Obama is a failed, anti-war, far-Left “community organizer” from Chicago—“Hamlet on the Potomac” or “Jimmy Carter-lite”—who was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, and who does not know how to run a war, much less successfully. He is bent on exiting from Iraq, despite the fragile democracy that exists. Ultimately his policies with respect to that country may snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and allow Iran to dominate the country. With respect to his Afghan War, he has never declared "victory" as a goal; and the Taliban are sitting patiently waiting for America to leave, after which the plight of Afghan women will be unfathomable.  Obama's core beliefs are not consistent with those of most Americans, inter alia, because he never set foot on the American mainland until he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and Columbia University in New York City, where he was a druggie by his own admissions.  See, e.g., http://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/is-barack-obama-a-racist (see also the footnotes and comments beneath the article)  After Osama's demise, the next step is Obama's exit from national politics, no later than January 0f 2013, when he retreats to either Chicago or Hawaii to lick his political wounds, and write his memoirs, and work full time on his presidential library.  Obama is determined to weaken our great nation at every turn, and he has been doing it, which is among the many reasons why he will not be reelected. The twin pincers of American economic problems and national security issues will seal his political fate; and in the years to come, he will be viewed as a failed president like Jimmy Carter. It has been said:  “Jimmy Carter may be heading to #2 on the [list of] all-time worst presidents in American history, thanks to ‘O.’”
OVER at the Corner, the main group blog of the National Review, two writers (Mark Steyn and Elliot Abrams) and many commenters have complained that Barack Obama was too free with the first-person singular last night; specific