Comments on: Going backwards on indefinite detention, too?

By: Patterico’s Pontifications » Obama’s Evolving National Security Policy

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:49:47 +0000

[...] Obama policy waffles noticed by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air are examples of why I don’t trust Obama and his supporters [...]

By: Thank You, President Bush at Semicolon

Thank You, President Bush at Semicolon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:06:57 +0000

[...] Keeping terrorists in jail who want to kill and terrorize Americans and others. [...]

By: House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:52:51 +0000

[...] elect it to be your next President. Earlier today, I noted that Barack Obama’s team has started hinting that they will move back [...]

By: The Two Malcontents » The Guantanamo Dilemma

The Two Malcontents » The Guantanamo Dilemma — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:54:15 +0000

[...] some liberal thinkers are beginning to raise pragmatic considerations. Thus civil liberties lawyer David C. Cole, a longtime critic of the Bush administration, now admits that “you can’t be a [...]

By: The Gitmo Dilemma: “We need to destroy our enemies, not guarantee their rights” » Winds Of Jihad

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:06:38 +0000

By: There's My Two Cents

There's My Two Cents — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:53:12 +0000

Now Wait Just A Darned Minute!…

Obots: pay attention! Your messiah has been lying to you….

By: Bush was right. Victorious, too | The Anchoress

Bush was right. Victorious, too | The Anchoress — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:20:02 +0000

[...] Bush was also right about Gitmo, which the press and the President-Elect seem to be discovering. [...]

By: DuctTapeMyBrain

DuctTapeMyBrain — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:56:17 +0000

After all the finger-pointing at the Bush mistakes and the blame Bush rhetoric, “Mr. Armchair Quarterback” refuses to change the play. What a whiny cheese-weenie looser.

All through his campaign and though the debates he kept saying that the economy, the war, global warming, etc. was all President Bush’s fault. Well now is your chance to correct all that, hero. Now is your chance to put your freakin’ money where your mouth is. Go out on a limb and make a change instead of voting “Present”.

What a freakin’ looser.

By: anti-boomer

anti-boomer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:26:37 +0000

The easy whitewashing solution is to close Guantanamo and reopen it the next day under a euphemism. We could call it the May-day detention center. Any other recommendations? Euphemisms always work.

By: President-Elect: Week 2 Summary « The Loud Talker

President-Elect: Week 2 Summary « The Loud Talker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:43:39 +0000

[...] Obama flip-lopping yet again, but this time in the right direction. [...]

By: Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:38:34 +0000

All I got to say is -

Those WH chefs better prepare tons and tons of waffles!
Maybe The One will gain 30 lb real soon.

/’Let me finish my waffles (first)!’

By: Irvin88

Irvin88 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:15:48 +0000

Liberals and lovers of our enemies follow these instructions. Get out your tissue boxes because your Lord and Savior is going to have to make decisions as a leader of a country at war not decisions as a nutball looking for losers like you and your cooky friends votes. I am sure he will make you fruitcakes happy alot but I also know he can’t be a leftists like you want if he hopes to be reelected.

By: Guns, Bailouts, Gitmo and Soap | The Anchoress

Guns, Bailouts, Gitmo and Soap | The Anchoress — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:55:00 +0000

[...] my blogfather Ed Morrissey, but I do take issue with him, here. He writes on what he perceives as Obama’s coming flip-flop on closing Gitmo: A month ago, the NYT’s editorial board scoffed at the Bush administration’s efforts to keep [...]

By: The Change Change

The Change Change — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:55:28 +0000

[...] “Post-Guantánamo: A New Detention Law?”: As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama sketched the broad outlines of a plan to close [...]

By: Tantor

Tantor — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:54:47 +0000

May I point out that we held Japanese and German prisoners indefinitely in WWII until their countries ceased hostilities and that was perfectly legal, moral, and just. Likewise, it is perfectly legal, moral, and just to hold Muslim terrorists in Gitmo until their parent organizations cease hostitlities against America. The fact that Islam declares perpetual war on the non-Muslim world until all the world submits to Allah is their problem, not ours, and they should bear the burden for their belligerence, not us.

After all, how hard is it to give up killing people for your religion?

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:25:15 +0000

It was easy for Obama to stand on his soapbox and sell sweet platitudes about human rights while he was a candidate. Maybe he’s gotten an education from that brain-dead simpleton named George W. Bush about how dangerous those sub-human creatures are, and if they were set loose in the United States, they would either blow something up or be lynched, and Obama would be blamed.

If Obama really wants to close Gitmo, he would have only one real choice–send the prisoners back to Afghanistan. But what would Hamid Karzai do to them? Probably something outside the Army Field Manual or the Geneva Convention–if Karzai were humane, he would choose a firing squad.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:11:06 +0000

P. S. What would an aquitted Gitmo detainee do to Michelle’s children? Buy them a puppy? Er, guess again.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:09:13 +0000

Maybe the Gitmo closers have learned a lesson from the environmental lobby: Not In My Back Yard.

Neither pollution nor terrorists.

By: Greg Toombs

Greg Toombs — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:49:31 +0000

I’ll bet all you criminally stupid, slobbering liberals who thought 0bama was the cure for all this country’s ills are feeling more than a little stupid right about now aren’t you?

Wait, it’s only beginning.

Scott on November 16, 2008 at 7:46 PM

Bull, is that you? Welcome aboard!

By: ColdWarrior57

ColdWarrior57 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:39:46 +0000

I say we all come together and FORCE obama to walk that talk. close gitmo , either give those people a trial or let them go. See what happens. If we are attacked by them again , then we know that curious george’s idea was TERRIBLE. We have to hold his feet to the fire.
Make them/Force them to back up all that talk on how bad gitmo is.

We cannot nor should we, allow obama to walk away from ANY promise he made. He wanted to be president, now lets force him to play with the big boys.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:46:58 +0000

I’ll bet all you criminally stupid, slobbering liberals who thought 0bama was the cure for all this country’s ills are feeling more than a little stupid right about now aren’t you?

Wait, it’s only beginning.

By: Infidoll

Infidoll — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:39:47 +0000

Not only will the MoveOn/Code Pink crowd utterly revolt, but it will force a re-evaluation of the Bush administration’s efforts to keep this nation safe from attack — and the success he had in doing so.

Utterly revolt? Re-evaluation? Are you kidding?? The left doesn’t REALLY care about civil liberties, they just like to pretend they’re being limited whenever a Republican is in power. And I wouldn’t hold hold my breathe waiting for that re-evaluation, either. If the MSM didn’t report on Obama’s impossible campaign promises, disturbing associations, and fraudulent campaign financing, do you really think it’s going to explain its strange new respect for indefinite detention?

By January, half the country will believe Obama invented it.

By: Lots And Lots Of Change « Beltway Snark

Lots And Lots Of Change « Beltway Snark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:20:39 +0000

[...] Obama, now that they actually have to deal with Gitmo, are doing a little backtracking on that too. As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama sketched the broad outlines of a [...]

By: el gordo

el gordo — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:01:25 +0000

Reality wins every time. Call me a passimist, but this does NOT prove that Obama will “govern from the center”. It proves that he will not let a bunch of terrorists come between him and the goal of changing the country permanently.

Yes, he lied. Anything to serve the cause. Surely you didn´t think that a guy who can discard his mentor, his grandmother, Aunt Zeituni and a million unborn babies really cares about some bearded nobodies?

By: gwelf

gwelf — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:50:08 +0000

In the words of the immortal Bruce Campbell:

“Awww, babe, that’s just what we call pillow talk.”