{"id":38706,"date":"2020-04-23T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38706"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:01:18","slug":"this-would-be-funny-if-it-werent-so-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38706","title":{"rendered":"This Would Be Funny If It Weren&#8217;t So Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/osama-bin-laden-wanted-to-kill-obama-so-biden-would-be-president-declassified-docs-show?fbclid=IwAR2upBXGojIx37WB_e61i0N59U2htdXQMDWxoy73b65IMMjaSz9GY2UnFdM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> posted an article about some recently declassified documents today that really makes me wonder about the wisdom of choosing Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for President.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the &#8220;totally unprepared&#8221; Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States &#8220;into a crisis,&#8221; according to documents seized from bin Laden&#8217;s Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The secretive documents, first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-bin-laden-plot-to-kill-president-obama\/2012\/03\/16\/gIQAwN5RGS_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> in 2012 by The Washington Post, outlined a plan to take out Obama and top U.S. military commander\u00a0David Petraeus as they traveled by plane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency,&#8221; bin Laden wrote to a top deputy. &#8220;Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour &#8230; and killing him would alter the war&#8217;s path&#8221; in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Bin Laden specifically wanted fellow terrorist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/10-years-after-911-al-qaeda-is-down-but-not-out\/2011\/08\/23\/gIQARQ3tZJ_story.html\">Ilyas Kashmiri<\/a>\u00a0to shoot down Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cPlease ask brother Ilyas to send me the steps he has taken into that work,\u201d bin Laden wrote to the top lieutenant, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.\u00a0Kashmiri wouldn&#8217;t get too far along in the plot, however; he was killed in 2011 in a U.S. drone strike shortly after bin Laden himself was shot to death by Navy SEALs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess Joe Biden&#8217;s reputation internationally is not too wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News posted an article about some recently declassified documents today that really makes me wonder about the wisdom of choosing Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for President. 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