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Obama: "Good job tonight. Good job tonight."
BOOKENDS:His State of the Union address was bookended by Mitt Romney's embarrassing tax returns which fit perfectly with his theme of economic fairness, and another successful SEAL mission which reinforced his reminder that he, not Bush, got justice for the 9/11 attacks
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The first indication of the rescue operation came Tuesday night in Washington from President Barack Obama himself.
As the president entered the House chambers to give his State of the Union Speech, he pointed to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta standing in the crowd and said, "Leon. Good job tonight. Good job tonight."
The president made no mention of the hostage rescue, but finished his speech with a reference to the killing of Osama bin Laden last May in a similar operation to the one conducted by Navy SEALs Tuesday night.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/25/10229917-american-hostage-in-somalia-rescued-by-us-navy-seals-in-overnight-raid#.Tx-kQALiTOU.twitter
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/1/25/92714/0216
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts-law/obama-praises-special-forces-for-rescue-of-us-hostage-from-somali-pirates/2012/01/25/gIQARmDoPQ_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
