>>>You don't hear so much any more from those who thought he was too inexperienced or soft to be President. He is a lot tougher than he is sometimes given credit for. He pushed the button on taking out Osama bin Laden, something his more bellicose predecessors had been trying to do for years.
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>>Just to be correct on the predecessors. There were only two of them, since the time OBL went from "CIA's good boy" to "enemy of the state" label. And Clinton didn't even try - he passed a warning to GW2B, who in turn was just giving it some lip service and kept using the terristhreat as an excuse to turn the country into a police state.
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>>IOW, I don't see any predecessors who were really trying.
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>I meant Bush and Cheney. Sorry for the confusing wording.

The lack of trying remains, even when you include this missing person*.

(*"missing" as in "tried to shoot a lawyer and missed")