Apparently exotic Kenyan anti-colonial Marxists don't hate America after all

President Barack Obama
(Official photo) The Associated Press reports:

The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned.

The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said.

Add to this the fact that nobody from outside America has managed to attack us inside America during the Obama administration, that Osama bin Laden has been brought to justice, that over the weekend a key player in the U.S.S. Cole bombing was taken out, and that al Qaeda in general has been decimated, and suddenly it doesn't seem like Barack Obama hates America nearly as much as Republicans would like everyone else to believe.

In fact, given that he's ended the war in Iraq and set a timeline to withdraw from Afghanistan'albeit, too long of a timeline'maybe it's time we start electing more badasses like him to office. (Come 2016, I'm thinking maybe someone along the lines of a Chicago-born hippie feminist who went to an all-female college ... and happens to be our current secretary of state.)

Bottom line is that it turns out you don't need to look like Mitt Romney in order to be a damn good president. So, whaddya say, haters?