That's the kind of response I've been looking for from a Democrat.

Why is the murderer of approx 3,000 Americans (as well as many other countries citizens) still smirking at us from his hideout in Pakistan?

The answer: Cheney/Bush & their Neocon enablers only thought about 9/11 as the excuse they'd been salivating for for years to unleash all their facist dreams.

Give em Hell, Barack!!

P.S. Any Republican trolls want to give me some shit about this? Bring it the fuck on.

I just hope the Repukeliscum continue this failed policy of the

"pre-9/11" mindset. It's not a winning approach. Because, like Barack has done, you can easily deflect the criticism by reminding Americans of the multiple failures of Repukeliscum.

Dead or alive.

Dead or alive.

Is Osama dead or alive?

Say it every day. Do not let them switch issues.

Now that's what I've been waiting to hear for five years.

This election is officially an episode of Real World now.

Just awesome. And exactly the right response.

He's good at stringing words together, but we're under constitutional assault right now by other democrats in trying to push through FISA. Obama is supporting one (at least) of the worst enablers of this.

Although I plan to vote for Obama this fall, I've never been a big fan of him, and thought all the praise he was getting was unjustifiable hype. It'd be nice to find that I'm wrong on that, and a firm, unequivocal stand (plus action) would go a long way towards justifying the praise he's been getting.

--Ron

Give it right back to McSame Flip Flop, his bullshit "straight talk" express, and the pissants that keep beating that 9/11 bludgeon over our heads. Guiliani, your 15 minutes are up. Pick up Liebermann and shoo, fly...

Same party, same policies, same failed results. Repeat until November 2008. It's winner.

This is a good start.

About time we finally have a candidate who is so straightforward and forthright. The plain fact is that 9-11 happened on their watch. It's past time to take that bludgeon away and jam it up their keisters.

This is exactly what I want to hear from our Democratic nominee. It's exactly what Kerry/Edwards didn't get to: a strong, forceful rhetoric which holds the administration, and the heirs of that administration, accountable for the decisions that they made.

It's amazing teh rpulbican have noting to run on so they are pullng out th eold fear mongering,unpatriotic shit again.

Obma has a good rapid response team, but her must be more foerceful in pulling the conversation way from 9/11 & Osama. He needs to drive the conversation around foreign policy, not just react.

Of course the media only ever picks up the one liners on this subject.

I'm not completely sold on Obama yet (although I probably will end up voting for him), but damn. The speeches he gives just continue to inspire me. The man knows the language and treats it better than a lot of people who make public speeches.

Obama didn't just smackdown the McCain camp on this one, he smacked them down, kneeled on their chest and spit in their howling mouth to prove his dominance. Keep pressing the 9/11 button, McCain. By overusing it for the last seven years to justify everything from torture to drilling in Alaska, the Right Wing has ensured that America's knees don't jerk like they once did. The Left is now on the right side of history AND logic on this one. Thank god we finally have a candidate willing to call them on it.

At first I thought that was one of those many Salon articles you've run over the past several years: "The speech/answer that [fill in name of Democrat] SHOULD give."

Then I realized - - no this is real, he really DID say it! It's a miracle! Thanks for posting this.

I've been waiting to hear a democrat--ANY Democrat say this in these definite, unapologtic terms without equivocation for

FIVE YEARS!!

HOOORAYYY!!!!!!

A long wait, but at last somebody,/i> said it. To make it better, that somebody is our Presidential nominee for this Election. There in a nutshell is why I gave Obama my vote in the California Primary. He nails the Neocons right where they so richly DESERVE it.

Obama '08!

Can we set it to music? Sell it on itunes? It needs to really sink into the electorate's collective consciousness: the "War on Terror" has been a disaster.

Don't I remember correctly that the not quite 3,000 who were killed on 9/11 were the citizens of 44 different nations? It was, after all, the World Trade Center, and that was a big reason why the world was so willing to rally to our aid, before arrogance and greed made us an outcast.

Can we get more on Obama's blue ribbon national security working group? On the panel of 30 some retired generals?

Pretty please?

Silverback66 makes a valid (and thoughtful) point.

But according to this website:

http://www.september11victims.com/SEPTEMBER11VICTIMS/COUNTRY_CITIZENSHIP.htm

which I am not connected to and I do not know the validity of their data, 2,902 of those killed were American. That sounds plausible to me, and a round-up to "3,000" is valid.

For my part, even if it hadn't turned out to be such a high proportion of Americans vs. other nationals killed, I'd be content to let such a slip of the tongue pass in the service of this woodshed-lickin'. And I am not an American, but 5 of my countrymen died on 9/11, and any time someone points out that the clusterf%#k in Iraq threw off the valid search for those who murdered them is ok by me.

...yeah, Obama's got one!

Happy Dance for the Truth!

and to Silverback's point I think some of the misunderstanding might be that while the grand majority of those victims were american citizens- they were as a group diverse many having been born in other places or first or second generation citizens. Which is representative of New York and one of the things that makes this courty great and so strong.