Rush Limbaugh: "Thank God for President Obama"

"Thank God for President Obama," conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his program today in response to the death of Osama bin Laden.

The controversial conservative may have been speaking facetiously -- later in the program, he laughed at media reports covering the praise he seemingly lavished on the president.

But for a solid eight minutes at the start of his popular talk show, Limbaugh gave what sounded like a serious commendation of the president's decision to launch an attack against the al Qaeda leader, as Mediate reports.

"We need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama," Limbaugh said. "President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out."

"President Obama has continued the Bush policies of keeping a military presence in the Middle East," he continued. "He did not scrub the mission to get bin Laden. In fact, it may be that President Obama single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off. You see, the military wanted to go in there and bomb like they always do. They wanted to drop missiles and drop bombs and a number of totally destructive techniques here. But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces."

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[doncinvegas]

Barrack hit's a three you guys are ******, pretty soon the ***** party won't have much to ***** about...CHEERS!

[ksmit2]

This was a schoolyard jack ass who momentarily forgot himself
and comlimented someone from "another school". After catching
his "glaring mistake", he had to dismiss his remarks as sarcasm.
I think Limbaugh is a pretty good guy in general and has discovered
a million dollar product that people can't get enough of, but on
some level like this instance, we might want to think twice about
someone who we might normally consider our own trusted "fearless
spokesman" for the masses.

[doncinvegas]

Mybe some day you'll rate a blo-job

[daffy64]

Hey wait a minute. I thought Limbaugh was going to "move to Costa Rica" if "Obamacare" was made into law.

Sheesh.

What a drama queen. Not to mention drug addict.

[Atlas_Shrugged_2010]

You must have heard that second hand and don't listen to his show. If you had you would know the truth about what you assume to know.

[mountainstates1]

I wouldn't believe one thing this anti-American, bloated, conservative has to say.

[Atlas_Shrugged_2010]

Ha, you'd rather listen to the BS the Administration and the mainstream media feeds you. Yeah that's the thing to do, idiot. Go get a refill on the Koolaid and run along, MSNBC is on.

[Reality-Checker]

So Rush Limbaugh commended President Obama...I think I will go buy a lottery ticket today.

[usadvisor101]

I have been very critical of rush, especially the fact he used his wealth and connections(just like bush to get in the national guard) to get off multiple felonies for narcotics.

atleast he can be some what objective on this monumental event,that will go down in history as one of the greatest military raids ever. he knows it, and its better he be objective then look like a poor loser con or a lunatic coming up with conspiracies.

[Henri_Rochard]

President Obama made a tough decision. If the raid had failed, his critics would've nailed him to a cross.

As it is, the Limbaugh/Palin crowd is still giving Obama grief.

There's plenty of Obama's policies that I don't like, but I'll definitely give him his kudos for this one. A very sincere 'way to go', Mr. President !!

[gcgray1]

So Rush the bastard is dead lets not be sorry go on with out lives .I am glad he got to see one more amreican his last.he has cause some 30000 lives to die with that sayed close the book and say the end

[maxdive1]

speaking for All Conservatives...Wonderful job President Obama.

[PoohBah40]

Wouldn't it be refreshing if people like Limbaugh and Palin could do the decent thing and offer their congratulations to Obama for a job well-done. But that would mean being decent, wouldn't it?

[hatehater]

There is no decency among them. And how does "conservative" fit with hate-mongering?