Why the excessive joy, from people who have not exactly been obsessed by Osama bin Laden for the last many years?

In an interesting discussion at The Thinking Housewife about the football-like cheering over the death of bin Laden, Laura Wood writes:

Imagine if the announcement had come from George W. Bush. There would not be such enthusiasm in the press. This is a political event, not just a military one.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 02, 2011 06:16 PM | Send