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We are in the political season and from every aspect of the coming election one can expect the usual and the unusual. Certain actions of the candidates can produce very positive reaction from the voting public and if per chance there comes news that is negative about the candidate it will  produce very unfortunate results for the candidate. If negative results aren't strong enough and does not produce the desired unfortunate results then comes the party hacks that will go out of their way to make sure the unfortunate results are pushed into the public eye to cause as much damage as possible.

Which brings me to the little incident that took place at the beginning of the state of the union address last night. The remark overheard was to Leon Panetta from Obama saying, "Good job tonight" and then because of noise repeated the statement "Good job tonight". The statement was for the operation going on with Seal team 6 and their attempt to rescue a couple of hostages being held by pirates in Somalia. Without getting too deep into the details, the two hostages were being held and one of them had health problems and there was concern the condition would worsen.

So supposedly a choice to extract the hostages was made and the president signed off on the plan. First let me say just because the president could use some help with a little good news by a hostage rescue I'm not saying the president agreeing to this rescue at this particular time and getting a  positive bump in the media which could help him in the fall election that this was anything more than coincidental timing. These people have only been captives for several months. I'm sure this president would prefer this all happen at any other time than while he was giving a state of the union address to the nation. Obama not being one to seek praise would not want the American people to associate him in any way with those brave heroic Seal Team 6 members that executed this rescue.