This is why they aren't serious

There are a ton of things you can correctly chastise President Obama about.  Mid East  isn't one of them unless you just hate him for no reason.
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Osama Bin laden is dead.
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We are out of Iraq on President Bush's timeline.
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Muammar Gaddafi is out as head of Libya.  A personal goal of Ronald Reagan.  (As for the asinine argument that what comes after might be worst, that was never a question when Reagan bombed his compounds).

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Hosni Mubarak is out in Egypt - a triumph of George Bushs' (plural on purpose) democracy in the mid-east dreams.
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So Republicans just look like assholes, unwilling to give an inch by not saying anything nice at all about President Obama.