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Obama for America

"One Chance." +
  1:30 web video from April 27, 2012.

[Music, heart beating SFX]

TEXT: The Commander-in-Chief gets one chance to make the right decision.

Bill Clinton: That's one thing that George Bush said that was right—the president is the decider-in-chief.  Nobody can make that decision for you.

Look, he knew what would happen.  Suppose the Navy SEALs had gone in there and it hadn't been bin Laden.  Suppose they'd been captured or killed.  The downside would have been horrible for him.

But he reasoned, I cannot in good conscience do nothing.  He took the harder and the more honorable path, and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result.

TEXT: Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?

TEXT: Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for vowing to strike al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan if necessary.  - Reuters, August 4th, 2007

Wolf Blitzer: "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."  He was referring to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.  What did he mean by that, because it's generated a little controversy given Osama bin Laden's role in killing, what, 3,000 Americans on 9-11.

Clinton: He had to decide.  And that's what you hire a president to do.  You hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it.

Notes: The press release provides this context...

Following the Vice President’s speech yesterday on foreign policy, Obama for America today released never before seen footage from “The Road We’ve Traveled” featuring President Clinton discussing the operation that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden nearly a year ago.