Jon Stewart Perplexed by GOP Responses to Qaddafi's Death

If politicans weren't such liars John Stewart's show wouldn't exist.

I'm a Liberal who always goes out of my way to acknowledge the achievements of the Bush administration. There weren't many but he slapped steep tariffs on foreign steel which really helped the mining industry in Northern Minnesota. He doubled funding for AIDS treatment and prevention in Africa. The Medicare prescription drug benefit was somewhat flawed but a good idea. Removing the Taliban in Afghanistan was necessary but Rumsfeld screwed up the follow through. Even the much hated and unfunded NCLB law has resulted in minorities beginning to catch up to whites on test scores. Now, Why can't a conservative acknowledge that removing a terrorist dictator without losing a single American life was a real accomplishment?

How DARE Jon Stewart use their own words and video to poke fun at the hypocrites. Stewart simply shows their own video and commentary to point out how hypocritical they are. And he's hilarious when he does it. He's going to have a popular show for a very long time because the conservatives just on feeding him such good material.

Some people hate Jon Stewart but he could not exist if politicians were truthful and honest.

It is sad when a comedy show makes more political sense than our politicians!

they haven't put together a talking point blurb on this one yet...by monday you will hear them all singing in tune

With what has been going on Washington and the country, I think being an Independent makes the most sense. Neither party has performed as we expect them too and the GOP has real problems.

President Obama, please, keep doing a fantastic job for the American people, regardless of what the GOP/Tea Party naysayers cry. I remember, that in 2008, your opposition to the Iraq war is one of the things that distinguished you in the field. So this is a simple case of Promise Made, Promise Kept, Period.

No matter what you accomplish, the folks you replaced will find room for complaint.

When you got Osama Bin Laden, they complained that you did not "thank Bush" or show Bin Laden's grotesque death picture.

When you got Al Alwaki, Ron Paul said you should be impeached for killing an American citizen without a trial.

When Gadhafi met his fate, the whiners complained that you should have done it sooner, never mind that the man had been a tyrant in Libya for almost 40 years before your inauguration.

When the economy fully recovers and those manufacturing jobs start returning from China, they will find something wrong with that too, But that's okay, as long as the "millionaire coddling" GOP says you're screwing up, then the more certain the rest of America can be that you are Getting the Job Done. Congratulations Mr. President, well done! THE TIME FOR CHANGE IS HAPPENING!!!

2 WARS DOWN, (IRAQ, LIBYA), 1 TO GO (AFGHANISTAN)

The last bastion of truth. Only the court jester was allowed to insult the king or tell the truth. Jon Stewart is the Walter Cronkite of our time. The most honest news we have.

We're all perplexed, Jon.

(GOP praises England and France for putting an end to Qadaffi)
When the U.S's involvement was announced, these same guys critisized the President saying the US shouldn't have been involved. After we were involved and succeeded, Members of the US government give all the credit to the French and English.

Isn't it strange how these characters, McCain, Rubio and Bolton ignored the hard work the US military put into this. When praising the military helps them, they use the military as a pawn (when they were in office, any negative thing said about the wars was "anti american"). Now that they're not in office, the successes of our military can be ignored and given instead to those guys that these same characters named freedom fries after.

Twisted liberals of Lybia" The only thing that is twisted are the yellow belly party of no that keeps flip flopping just to defeat President Obama in the next election. I never bleived that republicans would get this twisted.First they want to attack every country that harbors terrorists now they want to give civil rights to the terrorist who killed Americans in cold blood

Stewart, I don't always agree with you but you hit the nail on the head with this one.

it's the economy , stupid !

But Reagan tried to go in and assassinate Gadhafi too. But no republican (except maybe Ron Paul) would dare criticize the "what would happen after" debate and no republican would say he "wasted tax payer money" and no republican would dare claim he acted "above the law."

republicans suck.

When it especially comes to foreign affair stratagy, Obama is the smartest man in the room and it kills the GOP to no end...

Another hypocritical thing the GOP does is complain that Obama went into Libya without "authorization of congress". He did that so could get the jump on Qaddafi! not waste weeks of time "discussing it" with the GOP idiots and show his delayed hand to Qaddafi which would have been much worse for the people that were fighting him.

Then after all of this Obama is saying we are pulling out of Iraq finally and the GOP again complains on the reverse side that we are "warning our enemies". The GOP idiots again want to stay in Iraq and waste even more tax payer borrowed money. Remember McCain said in 2008 if we have to stay 100 years so be it? BTW it was Bush that unilaterally made the agreement (without congress) to leave at a certain date with the Iraqi leaders before he left office. I didn't hear the GOP complain much then.

So this shows how schizophrenic the GOP has become. They rather "warn" Qaddafi by delaying Obama entrance into Libya's conflict. But at the same time they criticise Obama when he "warns" Iraq that we are leaviing. Something that a GOP president agreed to earlier.

I mean really GOP? Jon Stewart is right this stuff just writes itself.

Republican Party Position Statement

Washington, DC. October 22, 2011. The Republican Party is on record as opposing the failed policies of the Obama Administration with respect to its disastrous intervention in Libya. This week Obama’s actions have contributed to the grisly death of Libya’s long-serving head of state, Moammar Kadhaffi, and to the death of some of his children and grandchildren. As a family values Party, we condemn this senseless bloodshed and attack on the family. We demand an investigation into the causes and manner of Colonel Kadhaffi’s death and we expect officials of the Obama Administration to be held accountable since they provided military and financial support to a ragtag army of disgruntled youth that used violent means to overthrow a legitimate government. America needs access to Libya’s oil and it had that access in the past so there was no need to get involved. America needs foreign enemies to oppose in order to ensure that high defense spending keeps companies like Halliburton in business and creating jobs. The loss of Kadhaffi is the loss of an adversary and shows once again that Obama is anti-business, anti-jobs and anti-American. We deplore these failed (did I say failed) Obama policies and know that all Right thinking red-blooded Americans will vote from their gut for the party of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. The Republican Party pledges to reignite the war in Iraq; go to war with Iran; attack North Korea and lead the world out of recession just as World War II got us out the last time.

Obama is confusing the Republicans by not being weak on terror and by attending to national defense, the same way he's confused poor Wayne LaPierre at NRA by not attacking 2nd Amendment rights. NRA doesn't quite know what to do, so they condemn him for leaving them alone by indicating they think he's just being secretive. Sure, Wayne, uh huh.

Stewart nails it again. There is absolutely NOTHING Obama can do to that the GOP wont criticize. He gets Bin Laden and even that isnt enough for those conservative jack wagons.