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Another Clinton backstabber goes down in flames: Obama fires Greg Craig for Guantanamo fiasco
Seattle Examiner ^ | 11/20/09 | D.K. Jamaal

Posted on 11/21/2009 7:16:39 PM PST by 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

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; blunders; clinton; clintonistas; fired; fourth100days; gitmo; greggcraig; lawyers; obama
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Whoa . . . a blistering op/ed - sounds like Jamaal here has Obama's number, though.
1 posted on 11/21/2009 7:16:40 PM PST by Baladas
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To: Baladas
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.

2 posted on 11/21/2009 7:22:28 PM PST by The Duke ("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
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To: Baladas
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


3 posted on 11/21/2009 7:23:56 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: Baladas

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


4 posted on 11/21/2009 7:24:57 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Baladas
A toast to the Kool-Aid drinkers is in order. Here's the cup.

 The Kool-Aid
5 posted on 11/21/2009 7:27:15 PM PST by Tawiskaro
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To: Baladas

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.”


6 posted on 11/21/2009 7:27:52 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: Tawiskaro

LOL, Lenin?


7 posted on 11/21/2009 7:29:53 PM PST by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: Baladas
Greg Craig reportedly help influence the decision by the White House to destabilize the current government in Honduras. Thankfully this deceit has also backfired.
8 posted on 11/21/2009 7:33:53 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Baladas
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.

9 posted on 11/21/2009 7:35:19 PM PST by muawiyah (Git Out The Way)
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To: Baladas

Yup.


10 posted on 11/21/2009 7:35:47 PM PST by Tawiskaro
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To: Tawiskaro

(What they do!)

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

11 posted on 11/21/2009 7:36:14 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Baladas

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


12 posted on 11/21/2009 7:38:10 PM PST by mojo114
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To: Baladas
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.

13 posted on 11/21/2009 7:42:10 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
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

14 posted on 11/21/2009 7:42:37 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: mojo114

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


15 posted on 11/21/2009 7:53:05 PM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: Baladas
Remember, Greg Craig is the sick scumbag who gave us this:


16 posted on 11/21/2009 7:59:43 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Baladas
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.

17 posted on 11/21/2009 8:03:37 PM PST by what's up
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To: The Duke

Agree 100%

Let these bastards eat each other alive


18 posted on 11/21/2009 8:04:44 PM PST by uncbob
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To: Tawiskaro

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.


19 posted on 11/21/2009 8:05:54 PM PST by seoul62
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To: Lancey Howard
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?!

20 posted on 11/21/2009 8:07:46 PM PST by kcvl
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