OBAMA: IM REALLY GOOD AT KILLING PEOPLE - What would really be incredible is if his reelection team had packaged this as a talking point and had wide-eyed Obama supporters telling undecideds in Miami-Dade that the president knows how to waste a dude. Mollie Reilly: A new book on the 2012 presidential campaign claims that President Barack Obama told aides that he is really good at killing people. According to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the authors of Double Down: Game Change 2012, Obama made the comment while discussing drone strikes last year. CNNs Peter Hamby noted the anecdote in his review of the book for the Washington Post. While the White House has not commented on the presidents alleged remarks, senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday brushed off, but did not dispute, other reports from the book, including that campaign officials weighed replacing Vice President Joe Biden with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket. The president is always frustrated about leaks, Pfeiffer said on ABCs This Week. I havent talked to him about this book. I havent read it. He hasnt read it. But he hates leaks. The quote comes in the context of both the drone program and the killing of Osama bin Laden by a special forces strike force. The passage also specifically references the death of another al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011
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