Well, It’s Early Days
So President Obama has signed his first executive orders setting up a “process” to close Guantanamo. He seems a little unsure of himself, and a couple of times he has to ask his legal counsel, Greg Craig, what the hell he is signing. At about the five-minute mark, he actually parrots the answers Craig has already spoken for all to hear.
It’s pretty comical, but then nobody voted for Obama on the basis of just his oratory. Oh wait, that’s exactly what they did do. It’s his predecessor who was thought not to be able to put two words together.
Still, this is what the American people wanted: why should William Ayers be the only terrorist who is “guilty as hell and free as a bird”?
I only hope that the “process” is as bogus as it sounds. No one ever said “Give me process or give me death.”
PS: Hot Air reports that maybe this isn’t what the people wanted after all:
WaPo’s touting its new poll showing that 53 percent support closing the prison, a perilously slim majority for so momentous a decision. Gallup, in fact, finds that 45 percent support keeping it open compared to just 35 percent who want it closed; among independents it’s 48 and 32, respectively.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
January 22, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
Do you feel safer today than you did last week? I certainly do not.
- Aggie
KHO said,
January 22, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
His, uh, eloquence is uh underwhelming to an uh extraordinary uh degree. His grasp of uh the issues and his decisive uh action in response uh to the immediate uh concerns caused by those uh issues is uh unremarkable.
GWB could move an Army half way around the world, destroy a nation’s military power, and topple an illegitimate government in less time than BHO can move 250 people from Cuba to J. Murtha’s Pennsylvania District (by invitation).
Three days in and we are paying for abortions overseas and giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. We have a Sec of State who is the muscle part of an international shake-down team, and an incoming Treasury Sec who not only cannot file his taxes, but can’t answer a straight forward question put to him by a representative of the people of the United States (Kyle) that would entail his admittal to being a lying, pitiful excuse for a man, thief. We’re going to have an Attorney General who has proven, uncanny skill at pardonning those who steal from the US (good reference for the Treas Sec), attack and kill US Citizens, and flagrantly break our laws. Unless the explanation is “uh”, we have a Commander in Chief who cannot explain an executive order that he just signed, and that is with help. This is change we can believe in. “Yes we can!” Can’t wait for day four.
KHO
Carol said,
January 22, 2009 @ 9:10 pm
Well done, Kay-ho! I believe you have covered the next four years in one blur of righteously indignant frothing,
Joe O'Neill said,
January 22, 2009 @ 10:55 pm
The U.S. Should Learn from the Gitmo debacle……….next time you encounter an Al Queada fighter do NOT let him live….The Geneva conventions allow the summary exedcutions of non uniformed combatants …………