COMMENTARY | According to a recent report by Agence France-Presse/Yahoo! News, rather than solve the economic crisis, the debt debacle, actually saving or creating all of those green and shovel ready jobs he still hasn't delivered or to give a bit of attention to that Libya fiasco, the expiration of the War Powers Resolution and the pending congressional bipartisan law suit, Obama's next objective is to hunt down and kill new al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"He and his organization are still threatening us, " Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told journalists after the Egyptian leader was named the new al-Qaida chief. "And as we did both seek to capture and kill -- and succeed in killing -- bin Laden, we certainly will do the same thing with Zawahiri."
The president's new-found penchant for assassinating terrorists comes as a stark contrast to his more laissez-faire attitude of 2009. The Sunday Times reported that President Barack Obama once believed that eliminating Osama bin Laden was no longer essential and that America's security goals could be achieved by simply keeping al-Qaida "on the run."
Of course, that was a complete 180 from comments CNN reported Obama saying when he was still a senator. "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaida," the presidential hopeful said during a presidential debate in 2008. "That has to be our biggest national security priority."
Curiously, the tough talk followed the results of a June 2008 Gallup poll that gave Obama low marks on National Security. While 52 percent of Americans put their eggs in John McCain's anti-terrorism basket, only 33 felt percent Obama had the skills to keep them safe. The perceived weakness of Obama's skills as America's commander in chief even prompted the theme for the Democratic convention; "Securing America's Future."
But Americans didn't buy the hype. By August, a CNN Opinion Research poll revealed only 58 out of 100 respondents thought Obama was capable of handling the responsibilities of commander in chief. When asked the same question was asked about John McCain, 78 out of 100 trusted him more. In April of this year, Rasmussen revealed that only 37 percent of Americans feel safe on Obama's watch.
As polls continue to reveal American's lack of faith in Obama's capacity to deal with the economic disaster and as his support among members of nearly every demographic continues to dwindle, the president appears to be grabbing for the only straw that gave him a bump in his chronic approval slump; the death of Osama bin Laden. Considering the Washington Examiner's report that Obama's Osama Bump was so short lived, the president had better have a long list of terrorists to knock off, a lot of accurate intelligence and a huge assassination operations budget to keep his numbers up through November of next year.
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