PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: “The elimination of Al-Baghdadi is great news. [Trump] would have been better served by allowing the announcement to speak for itself rather than engaging in a lengthy victory lap. Less is more is never his thing.”

—Tweet by David Axelrod, today.

● Chaser: David Axelrod, President Obama’s Top Adviser, Defends Politicizing Bin Laden Raid.

—Headline, the Huffington Post, May 6, 2012.

● Hangover “As political slogans go, ‘General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead’ is truly excellent. Within the space of a bumper sticker, it sears into voters’ minds two accomplishments that President Obama most wants them to remember while casting doubt on Mitt Romney’s charges that Obama has mismanaged the economy and projected weakness abroad.”

—The Washington Post, November 2, 2012.

As Glenn Greenwald tweets, “It’s genuinely fascinating watching Democrats in real time struggle to figure out what to say about this. They want to be patriotic and anti-ISIS, but also need a way to malign Trump without contradicting their gushing Obama praise over OBL: not an easy balancing act. Good luck!”