Did you ever need a moment to just take it in.. and contemplate the enormity.. President Obama

[Peacetrain]

I need that moment now.

Osama Bin Laden is dead.

You actually did it. Took out the nightmare that changed how we live.

I am at the point I just want to celebrate the end of Bin Ladens hold on our psyche.

If that makes me a bad person.. so be it.

My son was 13 when they attacked the towers.. and suddenly people were talking about black plastic on windows, being frightened to go to malls. It all culminated in the persona of that one person.

You said you would get him and you did.

I need a few days to take that all in.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. So do I. Thank you for saying it so well...K&R

[Peacetrain]

2. I think it is really hitting me today Peggy..

I was just in shock yesterday. :hug:

[flamingdem]

12. It hit me today too what a tremendous decision was made

and how much credit I give to Obama for his intelligence and for knowing this was a goal worth pursuing.

[Atman]

3. My son was also 13. To see his reaction Sunday night was amazing.

I never truly realized the impact the events of 9/11 had on our kids. I lived through Vietnam, political assassinations, moon landings, all sorts of crazy shit, so I guess I was a bit jaded to it all. But man, my son was damned near giddy when he heard the news live on Sunday night. He stayed up with me well into the night watching all the breaking news, couldn't stop talking about it the next day.

[Peacetrain]

6. I know... I know..

I am an older Mother.. and am from that generation that did the "duck and cover".. so I think that it is that for his generation. It is a culminating point that means we are departing the pit of anxiety.

[Recursion]

4. Maybe "importance", more than "enormity"? (nt)

[RobertSeattle]

5. It also blows up the myth that Democrats are weak on defense

[Peacetrain]

8. Good Point! I had not even thought of that

[RobertSeattle]

18. Lawrence O'Donnell pounded it into dust last night

http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/02/6573971-the-rewrite-whos-soft-on-defense

[ProSense]

7. The RW is really having a hard time dealing with

the fact that President Obama got bin Laden.

Daily Kos: While You Are Entitled To Your Own Opinions, You Are Not Entitled To Your Own Facts.

TPM: GOP's Tortured Logic: How We Got Osama Bin Laden

[Peacetrain]

9. I love the title "You are not Entitled to Your Own Facts"

They need to step back and breathe it in, and stop looking for political gain. I don't know if they can..but it has to hit them to at some point

[TlalocW]

10. Enormousness, maybe. Enormity means evil

And it was used perfectly (on accident) by George Herbert Walker Bush after his son's inauguration when they entered the White House, and the elder asked his son to consider the enormity of his becoming president.

TlalocW

[Peacetrain]

11. Actually the word is used both ways.. large size and evil.. and I meant it both ways

e·nor·mi·ty
   /ɪˈnɔrmɪti/ Show Spelled Show IPA
–noun, plural -ties
1.
outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness: the enormity of war crimes.
2.
something outrageous or heinous, as an offense: The bombing of the defenseless population was an enormity beyond belief.
3.
greatness of size, scope, extent, or influence; immensity: The enormity of such an act of generosity is staggering.


The enormity of the evil of the attacks on 9/11

[GeorgeGist]

13. So enormous that ...

a week ago Osama wasn't even on your radar. May all your delusions be happy ones.

[Peacetrain]

14. Trying to wade through that with hip waders.. say what?

[Peacetrain]

15. But let me add, while trying to discern your "hidden" meaning

thanks for the bump!

[Yavin4]

16. To Me, 9/11 Was The First Event In A Series of Confidence Crushing Events

The two expensive, bungled wars. Katrina. The housing crisis. The financial crisis. The Great Recession.

We've been living a hunkered down, fearful existence. Scared of what might happen.

Today, I feel like we got some of our confidence back. The killing of Osama Bin Laden signals to me that we should no longer live in fear of what might happen. We should live in confidence of all the good things that will happen.

[Whisp]

17. the media scared me more than any Osama could.

about how every minute was full of (false) danger.

I'm still not sure whether we got the right guy - fucking Cheney and Rumsfeld and the rest are still at large.

bittersweet

I appreciate how Obama handled it all tho, he's is one savvy dude.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. thank you, this is a good reminder to stop and take this in ....

good thread

[LibDemAlways]

20. The Bush administration's response to 9/11 -

creation of the"Homeland" Security Dept., terror alerts, turning the might of the military on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, taking away civil liberties, etc. scared me more than Bin Ladin ever could. Mass murderer GW Bush and his minions remain free. Now, that is cause for contemplation.