No Guts, No Glory

Ace of Spades notes the almost coordinated and on-message references to the CIA operation that killed Osama Bin Laden last week as "gutsy" on the part of the President. Here's a snippet, via Hot Air:

When President Obama was faced with the opportunity to act upon this, the president had to evaluate the strength of that information and then made what I believe was one of the most gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory.

To borrow a phrase so beloved by the Teleprompter in Chief, let me be clear. The operatives who put their lives on the line to monitor Bin Laden for months in Pakistan are gutsy. The SEAL Team that carried out the actual operation are gutsy. The Rangers that went in and then extracted the SEALS from deep inside a foreign territory are gutsy. The men and women that serve so capably each and every day in every undertaking that our armed forces performs are gutsy.

Acting on verifiable data and giving the go-ahead order from thousands of miles away? That's not gutsy, that's the President of the United States' job. Stop with the never-ending victory tour boys; there's a lot of work and messes still to be cleaned up both at home and abroad. Take a lesson from my personal life credo: "Act as if you've been there before."