The President is to speak. Well, he was to speak at 9:30 CDT, but I’m waiting.
The word is he’s going to announce the death of Osama Bin Laden. Say what you will.
President John McCain would have eaten Bin Laden’s heart on the live feed. I can’t wait to see what Obama says.
10:04: How triumphant will it be if Osama Bin Laden died of old age?
10:07: If Osama Bin Laden died of old age, wouldn’t you, as a Taliban, throw a couple grenades on him and drag the smoking wreckage to the Americans to claim the reward?
10:08: Yeah, I’m facile and cynical, but personally, I like my thoughts better than Geraldo on Fox going, “Uh, uh, uh, the son of a bitch (I am tough! I curse on Cable TV!) is dead!” and the guys on CNN going, “This, after 8 years of failure and 2 years of earnestly leading from behind resulting in resolution (not triumph or victory, we’re above that!”
10:12: I planned to spend the last hour reading. Now, I’m listening to a Washington Post photographer talking on C-SPAN about taking pictures. The President’s delay is elevating me.
10:14: Remember when President Bush interrupted our nights to say he had Saddam Hussein? Frankly, I caught it on the morning news after a Christmas party, and President Bush spoke on Sunday morning about it. We didn’t get the “Here’s a big announcement on Sunday night. Hold the wire!” thing.
Makes me wonder what news Monday will bring about other things.
10:18: Fortunately, the adrenaline has worn off in the 49 minutes since the President was supposed to speak, and the speculation has gone from (personally) uh-oh to the Osama Bin Laden, yesterday’s villain, has been captured. Now, I hope I can stay awake until the President speaks. Once he starts, though, all bets are off.
10:22: I sent the link to this liveblog to Instapundit. Considering that I am timing out writing to the database when I try to update this post for my own echochamber, I daresay it will all fall down if I get an Instalanche.
Sorry, Trog, but Danica’s sponsor does me wrong sometimes.
10:27: Just checked in on Fox News. Geraldo is still asking the only sober Fox person qualified for live broadcast to ask him what he thinks the president should say.
Me, I think he will say, “Let me be clear: On one hand, there are some people who say that my predecessor failed. Some people say it was impossible. I have done it.”
10:29: Did the President mean 10:30 CST because so many swing states are in the Midwest?
10:31: Maybe we should have put Petraeus in charge of the CIA years ago. The man, and his reputation, get things done.
10:33: In the past, when I live-blogged, I had a second computer (a Macintosh) running live feeds so I could post and keep up. In the second decade of the 21st century, I’m playing Civilization IV in another window and am going to paste it to the Dutch in just a second here. I’ll be kinda upset when the president drops in to take credit for the efforts of 10 years of American military men.
10:34: Maybe it’s just that the President doesn’t have to go to work in the morning.
10:35: When I was a boy, this was time to watch Dr. Who.
10:36: Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida? Kinda like claiming that the Tea Party is astro-turf, hey?
10:36: The White House feed is offset, so he’s not looking at the camera. Like Michelle Bachmamn’s response to a previous speech. Wonder if it will make SNL.
10:38: Well, he thanks the military. Good.
10:39: HE DID IT! He made Leon Panetta do it. But he did it.
10:40: President Obama is more butch than President Clinton, who pulled back at the last minute. Rock on! Maybe he should launch airstrikes against the leader of a foreign country under the auspices of the … and wait a minute….
10:41: It’s a good speech. I hope it doesn’t essentially throw Pakistan under the bus.
10:43: I wish this guy was president.
10:44: Except for the laundry list of things that we can put our minds to, as long as they’re as easy as killing one man.
Recap: Well, that was a very good speech. If George W. Bush had said it, I would have believed he meant all of it.
However, if “unity” means “we celebrate together the military accomplishments of this nation but submit to the programs of Washington that I dictate,” I’m still going to pass. There was a day when the Federal government did sort of hew to that protect us from foreign enemies abroad but let us drill for oil on our land and hope to strike it rich and let us take whatever means we think is necessary to provide for our own health, but those days have passed in the last two years.
Crikey, couldn’t he have called a press conference for tomorrow?
I’m afraid for a Monday morning document dump now.
