Mr. Joe’s view is correct. If the issue is “to close the Gitmo detention center,” then the question is to be put starting with “whether” and not “how.” But, quarreling about closing Gitmo totally misses the real point here because, despite that the Left has demonized—no, DEVILIZED—everything and everyone associated with it, that jail was actually meant to hold important enemy combatants well away from the battlefield so as to lessen their danger to our servicemen. (This is not even mentioning to obtain intelligence and, later, to bring criminal charges where possible and warranted. These uses can be crucial, but are secondary purposes of the detention center, in my view.)

The President has just realized that his predecessor had very good reason to establish the Gitmo prison. It was not to punish the enemy without trial—having used torture to obtain the self-incriminating evidence with which to convict them. No, the Gitmo prison has national security value because of its intended purposes, as I said before. Actually.

Let me be clear. The Gitmo jail helps attain VICTORY, Mr. President, in the war on terror. Absolutely! That is why you must use another prison to hold the terrorist enemy combatants, if not Gitmo. Of course, your Leftist allies will then develop the same political allergies with your “New Gitmo” as they—and you—have with the current one. All the while, you and I, Mr. President, will still have a war on terror to win—or to lose.

So, is Mr. Obama going to stop distracting himself with a silly leftist trophy issue of “Close Gitmo! Now!!” and lead the war on terror—the “good war”—as he ought to? Unfortunately, I fear I know his answer. He is welcome to prove me wrong.

Not being an American at heart he knows not of our culture, black or white or green…he is not one of us.

In the real world, people create plans first, and then figure out the deadlines. In the Obama administration, the president sets deadlines and leaves everyone else scrambling on how to meet them.

I’ve known more than a few cases where the deadline comes before the plan or even a goal. Of course, the deadline generally ends up getting adjusted once it bumps up against hard reality.

It was only a TV show, Barry.

Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Pungently Putrid(sanitized for HA) Performance.

The smells from this administrator are ripening at an alarming rate.

Then–Change We Can Believe In!

Now–Bush League, Just Not Bush!

The other day somebody pointed out that the most popular video on Obama’s Youtube channel is him swatting that fly. Probably because so far, it’s the only thing he’s done right.

Jim Treacher on September 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Of all documented cases on this man, it’s certainly the manliest thing he’s ever done.

And a poor one at that.

“President Token Has Spoken” (or is that Tokin’?)

Obama made this bold pledge without any hint of a plan as to how to fulfill it.

Mmm mmm mm

Obama broke his promise!

mmm mmm mm

Today, the Washington Post reports what all of us knew eight months ago — that Gitmo will remain open after Obama’s deadline, and his incompetence means it will remain open for an undetermined length of time:

Hey liberals, if you don’t march on Washington like the 9/12 folks, after Obama breaks one of his biggest promises he made to you, then you will reveal once more just how disgusting you are. The fact that you would accuse your country of torture and smear the military and CIA, all because 3 guys got dunked in water while hundreds of others are living better at Gitmo than they ever have.

Seriously libs, if you expect anyone to believe you are remotely honest people, you will go nuts after the Gitmo closure deadline passes.

Obama is going to get a lot of people killed.

ProfessorMiao on September 25, 2009 at 10:35 AM

You’re reading my mind, and I’m very afraid the pRez in little boy pants is leading us right into another 9/11.

Obama has a habit of making unrealistic goals and announcing them with little preparation…

Preparation, precondition, you know how he gets those two confused.

Hopefully reconsidering.

Closing it is a bad idea.

Mr. Joe on September 25, 2009 at 10:19 AM

On Jan 19, 2013, GITMO will still be open and President Obama will still be “closing” it.