At what point has the statement above ever absolved Obama or even made it seem as if I was "okay" with what he was supposedly doing? This is manufactured outrage. It has been from the start. There was manufactured outrage during Bush's presidency. The problem is when people forget that this is now standard politics, and people point out that it has been happening since at least the prior president, that they get their panties in a wad.
If anything I have been disproportionately hard on Obama because he has done such a 180 from what he said when he was running. At least Bush had an excuse for turning to the dark side. 9/11 made the political climate and fearful populace willing to allow just about anything to happen. Obama just flat out lied. He still is better than McCain and Romney though. We would have bombed at least two more countries had either of those two clowns been in office.