Comments on: Gitmo Follies and more

By: Neo

Neo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:52:40 +0000

This is going to leave a mark ... Obama lawyers set to defend Yoo The irony is so thick that you can build a battleship.

By: marcus waldron

marcus waldron — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:27:54 +0000

Sorry, Roger, Obama’s not “immediately closing” anything.

Learn before you write.

Simon says: John McCain came awake on Larry King tonight (paradoxical as that may seem) by raising questions about Obama’s immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay. I wonder what the President actually knows about what goes on there.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:29:07 +0000

Truth:

That was insane, really it was. And btw, Bush can not put this country into deficit, only Congress can do that.

In 2006 when the Democrats took over Congress the unemployment rate was 4.5% and the deficit was about $153 billion. Look at both today.

As for Gitmo, if these people are innocent and Bush did it all, what is there to study? Why doesn’t Obama just turn them loose with a big fat apology?

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:30:24 +0000

“Not a leftie” – another lifelong conservative Republican voter for Obama!

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:31:49 +0000

Soon the Administration will start hedging its bets in other ways. We will hear the laying out of rhetoric that if the US were to be hit with terrorist activity, it’s simply pay back for the evils of Gitmo and Bushitler. The cycle of violence narrative will be applied here.

By: Carla

Carla — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:20:37 +0000

Wherever they end up sending the GITMO detainees, one thing is certain, their living conditions, treatment and safety will deteriorate, not improve. But at least the “human rights” protesters will sleep easier at night.

By: marcus waldron

marcus waldron — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:40:58 +0000

I am sorry. Do you know anything about these things? You were wrong about everything last year. Why change now, right?

By: Barry Dauphin

Barry Dauphin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:13:33 +0000

I think much unpleasant stuff will simply be moved off the books. Gitmo is one example. So is the new lobbying decree. There is a difference between being a lobbyist and lobbying. The former involves official registration and the latter can be quite informal. Former gov’t (White House) appointees, etc. can still do all kinds of unofficial begging and pleading for money, favors, etc. Just not on the record. The Chicago Way will be a lot like this throughout the tenure of the Administration. It will work for a while until something blows up. In this philosophy, the public perception is what matters, not what is actually going on.

With Gitmo Americans essentially saw what was going on. Obtaining information was extremely easy for journalists and activists. Heck, the military and other parts of gov’t handed information over. The Hope and Change will be to obscure what’s really going on. It will be far more hidden.

By: MIke Reynolds

MIke Reynolds — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:42 +0000

9/11 Truth Guy: answer me this: if the Bush government was so ruthless as to carry out 9/11 AND so clever as to get away with it AND frame innocent Muslims for it……….why wouldn’t they have simply faked some WMD after
the conquest of Iraq rather than get egg on their face? That would’ve been childs-play compared to the massive undertaking of a 9/11.

By: hermie

hermie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:51:07 +0000

I wonder if all those Hollywood types who pledged to ‘volunteer’ for the One, are getting their guest bedrooms ready for their new visitors?

BTW…What prevented them from doing volunteer work the previous eight years?