BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States: By the authority vested in me as president -- as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo, consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice, I hereby order.And we then provide the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
OBAMA (chiseling in marble sound effect): In order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo, uh, and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I hereby order. And we then we will then, uh, provide the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than, uh, one year from now. We will be... Uhhh.... Ummm.... Is there a separate executive order, Greg, with respect to how we're going to dispose of the detainees? Is that it, eh, uh, what we're doing?There's more!CRAIG: We'll set up a process!
OBAMA: We will be, uh, setting up a process whereby this is going to be taking place.
h/t Posted by Kate at January 23, 2009 11:55 AMOBAMA: What we're doing here is to set up a special interagency task force on detainee disposition. They are going to provide me with information in terms of how we are able to deal in the disposition of some of the detainees that may be currently in Guantanamo that we cannot transfer to other countries, who could pose a serious danger to the United States, uh, but, uh, we cannot try because of various problems related to evidence, uh, in a Article 3 court. So this task force is going to provide us with, uh, a series of recommendations on, uh, that. Is that correct, Greg?
CRAIG: That's right. And detainee policy going forward.
OBAMA: And detainee policy going forward so that we don't find ourselves in these kinds of situations, uh, in the future.
CRAIG: And there is clear guidance for the military as well.
OBAMA: And that we are providing clear guidance to our military in terms of having to do with it.
Now that was clear as mud. only a fool would put himself in such a stupid position as showing he knows nothing about what he's talking about! Uh, uh, uh, DUH!
Posted by: fastfreddy at January 23, 2009 11:56 AMHey, you h/t'ed yourself. Who do you think you are, the Washington Post???
Posted by: jcl at January 23, 2009 11:58 AMHey, a guy's got to come through on his campaign promise to close Gitmo.
Switzerland has offered to take some of the bad guys.
Where do the rest go?
They'll figure that one out later.
Posted by: set you free at January 23, 2009 12:03 PMOr as Caroline might say.... "youknow"
I Can't wait until he meets Achmadenijad and talks about nukes.
Posted by: Joe Molnar at January 23, 2009 12:04 PMCould you see the strings?
Posted by: Woodporter at January 23, 2009 12:07 PMReady to govern from day one . . . uh . . . hundred and . . . uh . . . right?
Posted by: Erik Larsen at January 23, 2009 12:09 PMSwitched to the tele-uh-prompter, did he?
Posted by: ducktrapper at January 23, 2009 12:11 PMWhat a trainwreck...
And we have at least 4 years of listening to Tony Rezko's boy blustering his way through this disaster.
Posted by: Slim at January 23, 2009 12:15 PMThis is akin to having sex with a malevolent ghost. No one is really sure what happened, or what may happen next. So we are not really sure if we might have been screwed, are being screwed, or are gonna get screwed. Are we frightened yet?
Posted by: Yoop at January 23, 2009 12:26 PMThe rubber is hitting the road like bald summer tires in Northern Ontario in January......
Posted by: jcl at January 23, 2009 12:32 PMDemocrat Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania has said that his state would welcome the Gitmo detainees since "they're just like any other prisoners". Unfortunately there are no Maximum Security prisons in his state to hold them.
I wonder how the citizens of Pennsylvania would feel about building one there just for them?
Posted by: Robert W. at January 23, 2009 12:50 PMWhat. The hell?
Obama really is foolish.
Actaully I liked the suggestion of Laura Ingraham last night on O'Reilly.
She would put them in Barbara Streisand's neighbourhood!!
Or how about Robert Reford's quiet Sundance country? eh?
Posted by: Joe Molnar at January 23, 2009 1:00 PMTranslation:
We will close Gitmo and move the terrorists where the media can't follow and where I don't have to answer your questions.
Then I'll pretend there are no terrorists to the media while taking credit for making the eurotrash like us again.
Posted by: Warwick at January 23, 2009 1:07 PMThis is so typical of the Utopian Left.
They want to get to "there" from here, without living in the here and now, and then pass a lwa that says we have to be "there" by such-and-such a time with no path to get there sketched out in detail.
This is why Zero is so popular.
It takes magic to get to "there" from here.
(especially when here is fantasyland)
After going to Rush's site to read this link,I noticed even funnier link there on the cadaver Larry King telling Bob Woodward that 'his eight year old son now wants to be black!'
Posted by: Sammy at January 23, 2009 1:12 PMI thought this cartoon appropriate (as well as funny).
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/varvel/varvel.php3
~~favill~~
Good Lord, he's even dumber than I thought. Someone's got to keep the media away from him until he gets his lines memorized.
Posted by: RandomThoughts at January 23, 2009 1:15 PMYa, but ,uhm, you know, Bush was ,uhm, stupid,uhm right?
Posted by: janet at January 23, 2009 1:16 PMIf it's Barack Obama's first order of business to shut down Guantanamo Bay, I hope we don't get stuck taking Omar Khadr back. But perhaps Omar could send me one of those souvenir club Gitmo T-shirts: “My Mullah went to Git-Mo and all I got is this lousy T- shirt”
Posted by: NS at January 23, 2009 1:17 PMSammy, no problemo. If Eminem can do it then anyone can.
When I was eight I wanted to be an Indian because I thought Tonto was such a cool guy. When I grew older I found out it's a lot harder to be an Indian than a Negro.
(although Grey Owl and Ward Churchill managed the trick of it)
Chauncy Gardner votes present.
Posted by: ddt at January 23, 2009 1:20 PMSorry to go off topic Kate,but I'd rather listen to this guy than Obama.http//www.Maniacworld.com/are you going to finish strong.html
Posted by: h.ryan at January 23, 2009 1:22 PMLarry King has an eight year old son?
WTF????? The guy is s shriveled old dinosaur!
The woman must have been staring at the bank statements to get through that one.
Posted by: Doug at January 23, 2009 1:26 PMhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/middleeast/23yemen.html?_r=2&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
It is pretty bad when the NYT is talking about Gitmo grads without a "good Boy" tilt to the story. Looks like the undergrads have a halfway house to go to.
Posted by: Speedy at January 23, 2009 1:29 PMNote to self: if ever running for office all I have to have is a plan to make a plan, which of course is better than the other guy's plan.
Posted by: Anne (not from Cornwall) at January 23, 2009 1:29 PMHmmm...and that stupid Sarah Palin who only cares about clothes and being a bimbo gave an excellent State of the State speech last night, which she apparently wrote. She also disagreed wtih Obama strongly, while being exceedingly gracious (which Obama could not even do to Bush on inauguration day).
www.conservatives4palin.com
Posted by: Elizabeth at January 23, 2009 1:34 PMAnne (not from Cornwall)wrote:
"Note to self: if ever running for office all I have to have is a plan to make a plan, which of course is better than the other guy's plan."
Mr Dion tried that in Canada...remember the "within the first 60 days I will sit down with experts...to make a plan..?" However, he got shown the door. I guess we learned from Trudeau...but not enough and not enough of us.
~~favill~~
Posted by: favill at January 23, 2009 1:37 PMScary. I cannot believe that Obama is so inept that he flubs the oath of office and now appears to be completely lost without his handlers and teleprompter. God help us all.
(we can say God now, Obama does it so we can, too)
Hmmm...and that stupid Sarah Palin who only cares about clothes and being a bimbo gave an excellent State of the State speech last night, which she apparently wrote. She also disagreed wtih Obama strongly, while being exceedingly gracious (which Obama could not even do to Bush on inauguration day).
www.conservatives4palin.com
Posted by: Elizabeth at January 23, 2009 1:47 PMThey'll be setting up a process?
Oh goody.
When I worked for the Feds back in the day, all of the bureaucrats I worked with/for loved "setting up processes." In fact, some of them had built entire careers setting up processes which were beautiful on paper.
But results? Not so much. Expecting their processes to actually produce tangible, measurable results was somehow demeaning to the whole, uh, process of setting up a process. It's beautiful all by itself! Can't you fools see that?
Whoever's "setting up the process" for emptying Gitmo will be rewarded for it handsomely. Whether it actually works or not will be moot.
And people wonder why I left government employ.
Garth
Obama to GOP: 'I won'
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17862.html
Posted by: Shawn at January 23, 2009 2:12 PMI've got a better idea than Laura Ingraham. Put the detainees in CONSERVATIVE neighbourhoods. They'd blow the mofo's heads off. End of problem, no chance of 're-offending', just swift cowboy justice.
Posted by: Eskimo at January 23, 2009 2:43 PMNS,
Not only are we going to get Khadr back, we're going to give him millions. If there's a pool, put me down for $20M.
Posted by: Kathryn at January 23, 2009 2:43 PMWhy don't they simply unlock the gates, let them escape and let the Cuba's deal with them.
Then bulldoze the place and build a club med. How long's the lease?
Posted by: Matt at January 23, 2009 2:49 PM
Danggit Kate, you gona drive me to drinking early today, ;-)
,
Visit Dust my Broom or Halls of Macedonia to see what released terrorists do.
Posted by: MaryT at January 23, 2009 3:16 PMfavill -
Iggy's not much different, although he does not attest to actually having a plan to even making a plan, he's all about shooting down the other guy's plan. BTW, I'm surprised I have not heard any comments regarding Iggy's speech earlier this week, something to the effect of the liberals would be better in dealing with the US under Obama, like minded, etc, etc. How quickly they forget just how much harm the liberals did under Chretien for our relations (American bashing to no end, made me want to hide my head in shame).
Posted by: Anne (not from Cornwall) at January 23, 2009 3:57 PMElizabeth - many thanks for the link to Conservatives for Palin. Gosh, she's quite a remarkable person. I liked also his outline of 'what is America'. thanks.
Posted by: ET at January 23, 2009 4:07 PMOne year from now there will still be a gitmo and there will still be detainees in it. That is what the "process" will ensure.
The reason is that BO doesn't want two things to happen that would happen if he closed Gitmo:
1. media-soaked show trials in a US court trying to deal with this juristictional no-man's land showing all of america what a damn fool idea it was to close Gitmo.
2. Lots of video of many of those released from gitmo celebrating their reunion with there Al queda brothers on Al Jezeera and then replayed on Hannity and O'Reilly. (A third possible result - as opposed to these two certainties - is that one or more of these murderers will engage in another terror attack perhaps killing one or more americans thus putting the blood of americans on the hands of BO)
Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 23, 2009 4:14 PMA lot of prevarication here.
At the end of the day he kept a campaign promise. The US has the penal and judiciary system to handle it as much as it can be handles.
Recall that a Bush appointee has determined one of the scumbags cannot be tried because he was tortured. Time to send them to the States for a legal trial and lock them away in ADX.
Posted by: gray at January 23, 2009 4:18 PMi'd laugh if it wasn't so damn pathetic.
Posted by: old white guy at January 23, 2009 4:35 PMfast freddy: "only a fool would put himself in such a stupid position as showing he knows nothing about what he's talking about!"
Boy, did Obama look frazzled and spooked signing whatever he was signing the other day. I think it's finally sunk in that this isn't a gig he can just cut and run from. I figure four years is looking like a mighty long and unfriendly corridor right now. Even if he runs, he can't hide. I ALMOST feel sorry for him. Being POTUS when you're a greenhorn ain't going to be a picnic -- for him, for the U.S., or for us.
set you free: "Switzerland has offered to take some of the bad guys. Where do the rest go?"
If the Troika of Twits has their way, Canada I guess, Toronto, to be precise. No doubt Moron Miller will be out with the welcome mat and welfare for them and their extended families. Maybe he'd like to host them in HIS neighbourhood rather than mine.
Posted by: batb at January 23, 2009 4:43 PM*
"maryt says... Visit Dust my Broom or Halls of Macedonia
to see what released terrorists do."
"macedonia?"
geez, mary... sorta makes me feel like the low man on the
"scrotum" pole.
*
Posted by: neo at January 23, 2009 5:42 PMI posted the other day, after reading an Obamination to Israel and HamASS, the boy uses a lot of words to say nothing. He has nothing to say because he doesn't underststand the "mechanisms" at work in these international situations.
Posted by: GYM at January 23, 2009 5:57 PMNext thing you know he'll be conducting seances and talking to astrologers.
Posted by: Aizlynne at January 23, 2009 6:06 PMI saw the President sign this order on tv news chan and this is what I saw:
I saw a skinny fool dwarfed by his desk, dwarfed by his two sheets of typewritten text, dwarfed by the background of big guys in blue suits. I saw the US presidency reduced to a three stooges joke. I saw a lawyer give other lawyers jobs for life and a thumb in the eye of every other constituent save those lawyers and the loon left.
The picture though remains in my mind: a skinny fool, much like Doonebury's feather but less consequential, less important, and out of his depth.
This one will be easy.
Posted by: Wurstman Ever at January 23, 2009 6:32 PMSo Switzerland wants some of the detainees - For what test subjects in that fancy cyclotron they are building?
Did I just see the big Owe searching for the PRESENT card?
Posted by: Joe at January 23, 2009 6:49 PMI read somewhere Austria volunteered to take some of the Guantamino detainees as well. Can we suggest they take Omar Khadr AND the rest of his family too? They make such a nice family unit, and I wouldn't want to see them separated.
Posted by: gobidesert at January 23, 2009 7:16 PMsomeday we'll know who Gepetto is,(the one pulling the strings), unfortunately that day won't be soon enough, and by then the damage will be done and the voters won't be able to vote against 'their' own entitlements!
Posted by: Carl at January 23, 2009 8:14 PMOn the Omar Khadr issue, would not Afghanistan be in line for putting him on trial over there for terrorism.
Posted by: Merle Underwood at January 23, 2009 8:29 PMObama has to ask Greg Craig, late of Elian Gonzalez traitorship what he is doing.
Robert Gibbs has to ask Craig and refers many queries to him.
WHO got elected here anyhow? Looks like Greg Craig is running things.
Never mind CRAIG FOR PRESIDENT as posted above.
Craig IS the President!!
Shorter Kate & SDA: sour grapes from sore losers.
Posted by: real at January 23, 2009 9:31 PMhas anyone mentioned that he has ordered republicans to stop lisenting to Rush Limbaugh.
-Drudge-
I have the same question a republican had, how will spending billions on contraceptives create jobs. -
Or millions on school lunches-what jobs will they create.
Then there is the money to go to funding abortions in other countries. That could be a way to prevent future terrorists being born.
Sour grapes from sore losers? Well "real" lefty would be an expert on that since the Dems lied for four years about the election being stolen from Gore despite objective evidence proving them liars, then when Bush won a second term, switched to comparing him to a genocidist who killed six million people. There are hundreds of thousands of Google hits for that latter completely unhinged comparison so that makes for a lot of rancid grapes from the Left.
As for the stumblebum they just elected for his looks and skin color, unfortunately the Presidency is about more than merely posing and looking presidential which he's aces at. Usually at this point, Obama starts running for the next office, since he's never actually done any of the jobs he used as mere stepping stones.
Oops! Nowhere to run. Can't just vote present. He looked exactly like what he is, a junior senator who hasn't run a lemonade stand looking up at the adult in the room and asking for prompts. He is so far out of his league, past the point of his competence that it would be funny if he were not in the most powerful office on earth now.
One by one his Clinton retread advisers will stick their hand up his backside and make his puppet lips move. As for the master puppeteer, my bet is George Soros.
Posted by: kivi at January 23, 2009 10:44 PMAnd life down at the community drop in center goes on as usual.
Posted by: OMMAG at January 23, 2009 11:10 PMRemarkable. I hope Craig doesn't get too pissed off with being called "Greg" all the time.
Doomed.
Posted by: mojo at January 23, 2009 11:50 PMThe buck stops where?
Posted by: A Storm is coming at January 24, 2009 8:24 AMWe survived Jimmy Carter, and it's my hope we can do the same with Obama. If only Obama's opposition, that would be us, were led properly by honorable men and women, the task would be less formidable. We need bright people who's allegiance is not in question. Most of the slimes in leadership positions today would sell their mother if they could get a good price for her.
Posted by: Marcus, Sr. at January 24, 2009 10:20 AMWhich brings up the question: Who Is Edgar Bergen?
Posted by: Moneyrunner at January 24, 2009 4:53 PMZyclone B and 3 hours at 450 degrees ought to do it....
Posted by: eastern paul at January 24, 2009 5:34 PM