Obama and Osama

As everyone knows by now, Osama bin Laden has been killed by a meticulously planned and perfectly executed military operation in Pakistan.

Quote of the moment relative to this whole moment goes to Andrew Sullivan:

But it remains obvious that the president who kills Osama bin Laden is a president who is going to be almost impossible to beat in 2012.

Amen to that sentiment. Even more impressive is that all the while Donald Trump was stirring the "birther" pot, Obama was taking on the real task of governing. When the history books look back on this moment in the history of our country, Trump and all his birthers will look like abject fools and Obama will look like the serious statesman who just ignores the petulant noise and rises above it.