Another Clinton backstabber goes down in flames: Obama fires Greg Craig for Guantanamo fiasco

Seattle Examiner ^ | 11/20/09 | D.K. Jamaal

[Baladas]

According to POLITICO, Obama’s fans in the Beltway are shocked, shocked that he and his White House minions scapegoat White House General Counsel Greg Craig for Obama’s failed promise to close Guantanamo in one year.

The closing of Guantanamo – as Obama’s critics have long predicted – ain’t gonna happen, because there’s no place else to put the hardcore terrorists currently housed there. When Obama announced his dubious executive order closing Guantanamo by January 2010, the Kool-Aid drinkers were ecstatic. “See?” they said, “This is why we elected him. We were so right.”

No, they were so wrong. It was a boneheaded, half-baked plan then, and it still is. The order was issued with nary a thought as to where to move Guantanamo’s detainees – another example of the President making moves just for show

[Baladas]

Whoa . . . a blistering op/ed - sounds like Jamaal here has Obama's number, though.

[The Duke]

FWIW, Greg Craig is the low life SOB lawyer, working on "behalf" of (I believe) The National Council of Churches, who got Elian Gonzalez sent back to Cuba.

As far as I'm concerned the darkest pits of Hell are reserved for his type.

[steelyourfaith]

FLASHBACK to January 22, 2009 ...

B.O. has to consult his underling, Greg Craig, for simple details of his own first Executive Orders.

Click image to launch Obama Signs Executive Order to Close Gitmo

[EagleUSA]

Count the czars. Fall guys all. Obama is going to need many more.....

[Tawiskaro]

A toast to the Kool-Aid drinkers is in order. Here's the cup.

[LibFreeOrDie]

For those may have forgotten...from Wikipedia:

“He has represented numerous high-profile clients, including John W. Hinckley, Jr., who was acquitted of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity. As assistant to the President and special counsel in the White House of President Bill Clinton, Craig directed the team defending Clinton against impeachment. He was a foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy and to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.”

[Baladas]

LOL, Lenin?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Greg Craig reportedly help influence the decision by the White House to destabilize the current government in Honduras. Thankfully this deceit has also backfired.

[muawiyah]

Time to add that Obama has been remarkably inept in getting first-class folks to work for him. He's stuck with a barnyard full of third-rate half-wits, crooks and conmen.

Greg Craig is just the first of many who should and must be removed from government ~ both for our protection and theirs.

These guys are so stupid they are in danger of tripping over carpet designs.

[Tawiskaro]

Yup.

[billorites]

(What they do!)

(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)

[mojo114]

Jamaal does have Obama’s number and so did Greg Craig.
I am surprised to see this article from the Seattle area newspaper.

[SERKIT]

If the Thompson Correctional becomes the new home of the Gitmo detainees, Barry didn't "shut down" anything. "Club Gitmo" will simply be converted to "Durbin's Gulag", which will COST Illinois a lot of money and act to recruit local knuckleheads into al'Qaeda newbies.

Durbin was asked about taking a referendum to the voters of Illinois about this and he said "I don't think so." Quinn was espousing democracy while acting as a dictator with no accountability for the decision-making process regarding the sales of state property to the Feds.

Democracy is DEAD.

[CaptainK]

Craig stabbed Hillary in the back to climb on board the Obama Express. Now it's Craig's turn to get the dagger from Barry. It's a beautiful thing.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1940537,00.html

[Let's Roll]

I’m surprised, but very pleased, to see it from a black man with an islamic sounding last name.

[Lancey Howard]

Remember, Greg Craig is the sick scumbag who gave us this:

[what's up]

There is a cabal of DC intellectual "elites" who are mad as heck over the way the Chicago-ans treated Craig.

Hehe. Ozero's support is crumbling beneath his feet.

[uncbob]

Agree 100%

Let these bastards eat each other alive

[seoul62]

That cup, a modern masterpiece soon to be on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Manhattanites will clamour to have this cup in their china cabinet.

[kcvl]

I will never forget it!

I don't remember any libtards getting bent out of shape over that but they are so damned worried about terrorists 'rights'! I wonder if they would have opened their lying mouths if Reno had waterboarded Elian and his family?!

[M Kehoe]

So, who hired Craig Livingston?

Was it Col. Mustard? Maybe Ms. Peacock? Was it Mr. 0bama?

Maybe it was Hillary Clinton?

Well, I don't know, but it's fun to watch the rats scurry about. Right, Mr. Daschle? How about you Mr. Rangle? Or how about you, Mr. William Jefferson (D)etainee from LA)?

Other questions about democRAT corruption: Has Blogo been tried and convicted yet? What's the status on ACORN's 13 indictments? Wasn't 0bama acorn's council for a few years? Is Eliot Spitzer still seeing hookers? I'm sure Bwarney Fwank doesn't run a homosexual prostitution ring out of his house anymore. Speaking about Fwank, are there any charges against Fannie Mae's former CEO or lead council?

I could go on...

5.56mm

[Steve_Seattle]

"I am surprised to see this article from the Seattle area newspaper."

The Seattle Examiner is not a regular newspaper - it is a relatively new on-line only newspaper, and I think it is part of a national "chain" of Examiner "newspapers" in various communities. I think the writers are mostly unpaid amateur bloggers who write under the umbrella of the Examiner name. Maybe some other Freeper has more specific information about it.

[mojo114]

Oh of course, now I understand.

[Pagey]

I will never forget seeing that on TV.

[Revolting cat!]

Craig Gregg is gone? What about his brother Haig Gregg?

[flowerplough]

no place else to put the hardcore terrorists currently housed at Gitmo? Deer season’s coming quick in Pennsylvania - turn the Gitmofos loose in the Northern half of the state, above I-80, spreading them evenly & fairly. Please.

[Lmo56]

"I am shocked — shocked— to find that gambling is going on in here!

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Oh yeah.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Thanks for the link. This is the most detailed account I've seen of the damage Craig did. TIME wouldn't have been given all this inside information if the White House wasn't intent on not only blaming all their Latin American blunders on one guy but destroying his career and credibility also. Rham Emanuel should have shared a byline with the TIME reporters.

[MinuteGal]

As Obama's czars and czarinas are being thrown under the troika runners one by one, we can only hope that a couple of them start warbling some interesting melodies.....publicly or privately, we'll take either.

Leni

[dfwgator]

More allies for Hillary in 2012 when she runs against Obama.

[MinuteGal]

You are soooo right!

Leni

[CaptainK]

It’s a nest of vipers. It will be interesting to see who survives.

[amom]

8D

[anglian]

Phillip Carter

Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.

Eikenberry should go next....