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White House Counsel Greg Craig to get the axe --- for his ineptness on Guantanamo
Island Turtle ^ | September 25, 2009 | Corky Boyd

Posted on 09/25/2009 7:58:34 AM PDT by Corky Boyd

The Washington Post reports today that Greg Craig has been replaced as the point man on Guantanamo and will likely leave the White House. The story places the blame for crafting the Guantanamo strategy for a date certain shutdown, of convincing The One of its wisdom and the failure to follow through, squarely on Craig’s shoulders. It hinted that Obama may now not be able to meet his January 22 deadline.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: gregcraig; guantanamo; obama; underthebus; whitehouse
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1 posted on 09/25/2009 7:58:35 AM PDT by Corky Boyd
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To: Corky Boyd

Another one bites the dust!


2 posted on 09/25/2009 7:59:40 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas

Greg Craig, now there’s a name out of the past...


3 posted on 09/25/2009 8:00:22 AM PDT by amom
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To: Corky Boyd
Hmm so let see. $1.6 trillion dollar deficit, double digit unemployment, trillions in home equity vanishing, stagnant economy...

Hmmm perhaps Dear Reader should fire himself for gross incompetence instead.

4 posted on 09/25/2009 8:00:25 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The 0 regime: harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.)
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To: Corky Boyd

Was Craig advising obama all through the compaign too? And isn’t Craig a Clinton guy? I wonder what this means for Hillary and co.


5 posted on 09/25/2009 8:00:51 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: Corky Boyd

*bumpety-bump*

Wow. That bus is going to need a tire rotation and wheel realignment pretty soon.


6 posted on 09/25/2009 8:01:16 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (“They're drinking the juice.” ~ Barack H. Obama)
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To: WellyP

Jan 22?

119 days from today.

Tick.

Tick.

Tick.


7 posted on 09/25/2009 8:01:18 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

They probably made the big announcement right after the Inauguration, game themselves a year. Couldn’t do it. har har dee har har.


8 posted on 09/25/2009 8:02:52 AM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: Corky Boyd

And like Stalin, Obama is very efficient at placing his blame on others shoulders, then sending them to the firing squads.
*chuckle*
The boy dictator learned his lessons well.
Expect them to get worse.


9 posted on 09/25/2009 8:03:27 AM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: Corky Boyd

Nothing is ever Bambi’s fault. Granted, he doesn’t think these crazy ideas up on his own, but he does promote them and then somehow sidesteps any responsibility when they crash and burn.

It doesn’t seem to affect his popularity with the faithful in the least, however.


10 posted on 09/25/2009 8:03:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: Corky Boyd

“The buck stops ... somewhere down there.”


11 posted on 09/25/2009 8:04:10 AM PDT by kennedy (I'm a Kennedy with no experience or qualifications too! Where do I sign up for MY Senate seat?)
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To: Corky Boyd

“Greg Craig”

...to be replaced by Frank Franklin.


12 posted on 09/25/2009 8:04:22 AM PDT by albie
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To: EDINVA

The video of the signing of the closure bill, signed shortly after the inauguration, showed 0bama asking Craig “Now this is the Guantanamo closure bill, right?”

The Moron-in-Chief didn’t even know what he was signing.


13 posted on 09/25/2009 8:06:44 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: livius
Nothing is ever Bambi’s fault. Granted, he doesn’t think these crazy ideas up on his own, but he does promote them and then somehow sidesteps any responsibility when they crash and burn

Right after inaguration, obama signed 7 executive orders live on t.v., he had no idea what he was signing, he kept asking greg what is this one?

Gregg Craig has had more influence on this gov't than we may ever know and I doubt if he leaves, that will change, he will be on the conference call and still advise obama.

14 posted on 09/25/2009 8:07:52 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Kakaze

Craig will just move to the other end of the Blackberry.


15 posted on 09/25/2009 8:09:23 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ElayneJ
“And isn’t Craig a Clinton guy?”

Yes, and he's w-h-i-t-e!

I hear Van Jones is looking for a job!

16 posted on 09/25/2009 8:10:38 AM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: amom
Greg Craig, now there’s a name out of the past...


17 posted on 09/25/2009 8:11:59 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Corky Boyd

Greg Craig was also John Hinckley’s defense lawyer. Check out his wiki entry to see all the pukes he has represented over the years. He stiffed Hillary to endorse BO during the primaries.


18 posted on 09/25/2009 8:14:15 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Corky Boyd
I'm not sure what the problem is. Send an old boat down to Guantanamo. Put all the prisoners on the boat. Tow it out to sea and use it for live fire exercises.

The benefits include:

1. Obama keeps his promise to close Guantanamo.
2. Navy gunner training.
3. Creating an artificial Reef.
4. Feeding the Sharks that would normally go after the Cuban refugees fleeing their Communist Homeland for the new Socialist Homeland of the ObamaNation.

19 posted on 09/25/2009 8:16:34 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

NO! NO! THAT IS SO UNFAIR. Let them loose in Cuba. Castro deserves these misfits after what he sent us in the 80’s. Let them butcher his women and set on their a$$es while the rest of the population works. Ya, I like it when a plan comes together


20 posted on 09/25/2009 8:20:46 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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