Give me a damn break. With all the money that we're pumping into the military and CIA, it took them a decade to find this bastard and cap him? They thought he was hidden in mountain caves and all the while he was in some wide open fortified manshion? It's kind of funny that when Obama's approval ratings are at an all time low, something of this magnitude happens. Ironic? Maybe. The idiots on the news are saying, "It's a big moral boost!" Yeah I bet it is. Congrats on finding this douche bag, but dang...
Sure, and you're not alone. Yahoo, backed with Microsoft's business clout, has been posting some spicy stories that clearly have been brewing for a while now. Pakistan was hiding him and telling us behind the scenes "better not touch him or else", which makes us look dumb, hence your comment. Approval part aside, I'd call the timing more that he left it alone for two years "since two more years isn't any worse than the previous eight", because he knew he had all those domestic items on his agenda. However crappy it was, he was the only one of five presidents to get a health care bill through, and he did fix the mess handed him by the republican predecessor guys who predictably tried to blame it on him via astroturf comments on the web.
So with all that junk out of the way, he made his move. Pakistan?! Really?! It will take a couple months of cultural "processing" before we come to terms with that one. It's just this side of Impeachment Grade for W. Bush, except he is out of office, and he knows it. What Obama did was time it for Year Three, the "dead year", so we can stew on it, rather than election season directly.
Edit: Just now Yahoo came through with another news link. All told, for Yahoo to be peeling off ten stories on this in a week, you know they were sitting on the results for months, waiting for an official go-ahead.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden
Obama: bin Laden had support network
"WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden benefited from "some sort of support network" inside Pakistan, President Barack Obama said in a Sunday broadcast interview..."