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In an election year when every move counts, the Democrats have made a calculated move to milk the first anniversary of Osama`s killing as an achievement of Barack Obama who as a "decider-in-chief" authorised the courageous raid.
According to the latest ad released by Obama`s re-election campaign, the Democrats have cast a doubt over whether the presidential challenger Mitt Romney would have gone ahead to authorise the Abbottabad raid on May 2 last year.
Looking to seize the moment, Obama has also given a rare interview, talking about Osama`s killing in his hideout, from the White House Situation Room to NBC that will air it on the anniversary day.
In a video released on Friday, suitably titled `One Chance`, former president Bill Clinton praises Obama for ordering the Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden`s compound. "Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?" the ad goes on to ask.
The ad points out that in 2008, Romney had said that "it`s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person". He had also criticised Obama, the then presidential contender, for talking about drone strikes in Pakistan.
A year after the raid that saw US Navy SEALS enter Pakistani territory and kill the al Qaeda leader, then billed as America`s enemy number 1, the Democratic campaign managers are making sure all credit goes to the Commander-in Chief.
"Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive".
This is how Vice President Joe Biden summed up Obama`s presidential term in a speech at New York University this week, according to the Washington Post.
