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Barack Obama snubbed as Senate withholds funds needed to close Guantanamo Bay
Telegraph. co.UK ^ | 20 May 2009 | Alex Spillius

Posted on 05/19/2009 8:56:01 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776

Mr Obama had asked for $80 million from Congress to pay for relocating the 240 prisoners still held on the US naval base in Cuba, but Democratic senators joined Republicans in demanding that a clear plan for the closure be presented before they approved the money.

With American allies currently prepared to take more than a handful of the detainees, and others unwanted by their home countries, Republicans have successfully raised fears have that many will be freed into the US prisons or the public at large.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; gitmo; snub
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Snubbing Obama is really a lot of fun, Congress should try it more often.
1 posted on 05/19/2009 8:56:02 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
You know Obama invented the Snub

That is what is so funny about it.

2 posted on 05/19/2009 8:59:01 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I estimate that 25% of the radical left wing is tiring of this asshat.

Bluedogs have to really be upset.
Its time to call this jerk out.
He has done to much damage already.


3 posted on 05/19/2009 9:00:20 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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“Snubbing Obama is really a lot of fun, Congress should try it more often.”

Sure, but was he really snubbed this time, or, instead, did Congress give him an easy way out.

Obama’s people are being very careful about making life easy for terrorists, as they know that a single bombing, linked to them letting the Muslim loose, will WRECK the Democratic Party for decades.


4 posted on 05/19/2009 9:00:27 PM PDT by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I think this is what he wanted. He ‘tried’ but the bad Congress wouldn’t fund it. He gets it both ways.


5 posted on 05/19/2009 9:00:58 PM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: AmericanMade1776
As I said earlier:
Obama won the responsibility of making certain the Constitution is upheld and defended against enemies both foreign and domestic by making sure that Constitutional laws are properly executed; if, however, he fails to do this and, instead, joins together with those who assault the Constitution and the nation it was meant to protect, he then becomes one of those enemies (in his case probably both foreign and domestic) even if he happens to have been elected president. Being elected president doesn't mean that the American people have ceded to him dictatorial powers to remake the United States and its government into whatever seems best to him.

6 posted on 05/19/2009 9:01:09 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: AmericanMade1776
He and the Democrats running the congress knew from the beginning that they would never shut down Gitmo, it was all for show. You might think that the morons that voted for this clown would start to catch on but I'll bet not.
7 posted on 05/19/2009 9:01:09 PM PDT by WHBates
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To: AmericanMade1776

LOOK at THOSE EARS!

Its like an ear version of waxmans nose!


8 posted on 05/19/2009 9:01:35 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: BobL

Obama is a train wreck waiting to happen. “Obama’s People” can not derail it.


9 posted on 05/19/2009 9:01:46 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Mr Obama had asked for $80 million from Congress to pay for relocating the 240 prisoners still held on the US naval base in Cuba, but Democratic senators joined Republicans in demanding that a clear plan for the closure be presented before they approved the money.

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This will tactic will reproduce itself faster than the swineflu.

obambi will need to find a vaccine.......more stimulus.


10 posted on 05/19/2009 9:02:22 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: AmericanMade1776

...all these rats witholding the funds are doing him a favor....this way, he don’t look like he has a choice...now he can say he has to leave it like Bush had it....for now...and the real whacko lefties back off him...so he wins for now


11 posted on 05/19/2009 9:03:26 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: AmericanMade1776

Actually his ears remind me of that of a hyena.

We need to send him back to Kenya


12 posted on 05/19/2009 9:03:31 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: TomasUSMC

Obama needs to be more sensitive to the needs of America’s enemies and fund them to a more comfortable spot.. I mean he promised them. (sarcasm)


13 posted on 05/19/2009 9:04:32 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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He still wins on this politically.


14 posted on 05/19/2009 9:04:47 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama /Pelosi/Bush Theme : "A dollar borrowed or printed is a dollar earned!")
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To: mylife

Obama’s ears, Waxman’s nose, and the brain of Maxine Waters...egads..what have Democrats wrought


15 posted on 05/19/2009 9:06:41 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

What’d yah know...”NOT IN MY BACK YARD” worked in OUR favor this time ;-)


16 posted on 05/19/2009 9:07:53 PM PDT by NordP (BHO's new book, "To Serve Man/United States" --- NO NO NO....RUN....it's a COOKBOOK!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

It aint pretty...


17 posted on 05/19/2009 9:08:05 PM PDT by mylife (The Big Tent Is A Big Mistake)
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To: sickoflibs
sickoflibs wrote: He still wins on this politically.

NO ONE.. I mean NO ONE Wins all the time, not even Obama. Obama has not got the work ethic to win, he is a sluffer.

18 posted on 05/19/2009 9:08:26 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Snubbed my ass. This was orchestrated by Axelrod starting with Webb's appearance last Sunday. Obama couldn't find any countries to take the detainees and the public was against bringing them into the US. Answer: Have the Senate play the bad cop and deny the funding. So Gitmo stays open for now and Obama can say he wanted to close it but the Senate voted it down. No harm, no foul. Obama has it both ways again.
19 posted on 05/19/2009 9:09:08 PM PDT by kabar
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But-t-t-t Obama promised.


20 posted on 05/19/2009 9:11:28 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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