But its main purpose is to attack President Obama for what it calls his bragging about the killing of Bin Laden and his claim of all the credit for a military operation. Obama certainly did instantly seek maximum political advantage and rather laid it on with a trowel.
Remember that moody picture of him watching the op? After the killing, the White House and the president took pains to suggest that the operation wasn't something that just happened, but was a presidential priority. They stressed it required Obama to make a difficult and agonising decision to authorise the actual mission, against the wishes of many advisors. The Obama campaign has accused the group of "Swift Boat tactics" , recalling a highly effective ad from which questioned John Kerry's Vietnam record.
The new group rejects the accusation, saying that campaign was about narrow personal details, but theirs is about wider issues of national security. At first sight this is only going to persuade the converted.
Bush, he and I had obviously big policy differences, but he's a good man, he's a patriot. And he ordered everybody on his team to work seamlessly with us on the transition. Could not have been more gracious, could not have been more helpful.
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