The World Changes, We Stay Largely the Same

One thing is pretty much guaranteed, in the wake of a big-time news event: people are going to make it about themselves. When Osama bin Laden is killed in a raid in Pakistan, politically-inclined folks in the U.S. are immediately going to wonder how this impacts the 2012 elections. Obama supporters are going to celebrate a bit more readily than they would have if the same thing had happened when George W. Bush was in office. Obama's opponents are going to be a bit more skeptical, likewise. (From Free Republic: "We got him in spite of Obama, he’s more interested in getting our military Homosexualized than he is about any war on terror.") Or they will use the opportunity to make some sort of political statement amidst the crowd outside the White House.