Obama's "Sleazy" Campaign

Gary Bauer

Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Today marks the one year anniversary of the successful SEAL team raid that brought justice to Osama bin Laden. Predictably, Obama's campaign is going all out to exploit the mission. It's understandable that Obama would want to highlight this successful mission. After all, his list of accomplishments is rather thin. (More on that below.) But Obama's bragging has raised a lot of eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.

In their most recent video, the Obama campaign and the president himself suggest that Mitt Romney would not have ordered the assault on bin Laden's compound. The suggestion that Romney would allow the world's most-wanted terrorist, who orchestrated the mass murder of thousands of America citizens, to escape justice is a disgusting and false charge. But it is a preview of the depths to which the Obama campaign is prepared to sink in order to win. It is a preview of the smears yet to come.

How much credit does Obama think he deserves for doing the right thing? Yes, it was a daring move. But ANY president would have ordered that raid.

Retired Admiral Mike Mullen, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the SEAL team raid, told NBC News: "I do worry a great deal … that somehow this gets spun into election politics. I can assure you that those individuals who risked their lives, the last thing in the world they want is to be spun into that. So I'm hoping that that doesn't happen."

The Romney campaign is in no position to spin the raid, so it's crystal clear who Admiral Mullen is referring to.

In today's Washington Post, Jose Rodriguez, Jr., a 31-year veteran of the CIA and one of America's top spies, wrote that the hunt for bin Laden started long before Obama took office. He also noted how Obama has changed our intelligence gathering capabilities: "With some trying to turn bin Laden's death into a campaign talking point for Obama's reelection, it is useful to remember that the trail to bin Laden started in a CIA black site -- all of which Obama ordered closed, forever, on the second full day of his administration -- and stemmed from information obtained from hardened terrorists who agreed to tell us some (but not all) of what they knew after undergoing harsh but legal interrogation methods. Obama banned those methods on Jan. 22, 2009."Current and former SEALs are speaking out too, saying "The decision was a no brainer," and that Obama should not pat himself on the back too much for making the right call.

Even Obama's usual cheerleaders on the left are condemning this obnoxious attack on Mitt Romney's patriotism. Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the left-wing Huffington Post, said yesterday, "To turn [the bin Laden raid] into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do." And the Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote that Obama is "making me queasy because his nonstop campaigning is looking, well, sleazy -- and his ad suggesting that Mitt Romney wouldn't have killed Osama bin Laden is just the beginning of it."

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