Who will be the first birther bill sponsor in the House of Reps to publicly congratulate Obama?

I imagine this will be of some comfort to those who lost loved ones on 9/11, and to those who lived in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. at the time of the 9/11 attack.

For the vast majority of us, however, this will not change a thing. Al Quaida has been splintered into a myriad assortment of groups around the world, mostly with no allegiance to Osama bin Laden. So, it is hardly a harbinger of the end of the 'War on Terror."

Nor will this end the assault on civil liberties we have been living under for nearly a decade. And I doubt we will be ending our, now three, different wars. Getting Osama was never the reason we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and his death will not be a reason to get out of those countries. And Libya, well, Libya has nothing to do with Osama.

 But it was all worth it, I guess -- all the killing, all the torture, all the bloodshed, all the war, all the fattened-up gov contractors, all the maimed and blown-up children and parents and cities, all the dead and wounded and suicidal soldiers on our side, all the ongoing and increasing hatred of us the world over...ah yes, of course, all worth it so we could kill this one guy. Yippidy-doo-dah. I feel so safe!

Even David Gergen is comparing this to fall of the Berlin Wall.
Imagine that.

I can't help but wonder if tomorrow morning the countless millions of out of work breadwinners will be magically employed, or the millions of foreclosures will cease, or the, who knows how many, languishing in nameless prisons, and charged with nothing, will be freed?

Now, if President Obama had announced that tonight he had instructed AG Holder to round up the CEO's of the major "Investment banks" and bring them before the bar of justice to answer for the unspeakable damage they've caused America, and the world, THEN I'd celebrate.

At least Obama showed what the power of the Presidency can really do when it wants to: He pre-empted The Donald & The Apprentice.

Honestly, I haven't believed for a long time that bin Laden was the biggest threat to our safety as much as he became the biggest and best justification for why we've had to lose so much of our privacy and freedom.