The O, followed by Cheney.Yep, Team Obama screwed the pooch by their poor planning.
Cheney's speech was scathing.
Even worse, Cheney's speech was followed by 3 hours of Rush.
Their poor planning goes back to making a huge announcement about closing Gitmo and then releasing the so-called "torture" memoes... unless of course their real intent was to reign in Nancy Pelosi and expose her as the fool she is. I'd like to believe that but know Obama's team isn't anywhere near as smart as they tell everyone they are. Now they've created a box for themselves. They are forced to take the position that a place like Gitmo is necessary but because they themselves demogogued it and turned it into an internation symbol to win an election Gitmo itself has to be closed... and reconstructed somewhere inside the US... where it won't again become an interrnational symbol? Hah! What a bunch of bumbling idiots.
You are exactly right. Close your eyes and imagine the screaming going on inside the WH right now as the blame game is being played. Probably something similar to the infamous Hitler video parody with his generals Hitler video Dallas Cowboy version (I know the Hitler comparisons are tired but it is believable that 0_bama yelling at his staff about this blunder wouldn't be too dissimilar from this).
That's for sure. He ensured that the media couldn't ignore Cheney's speech, and actually set himself up for a side by side comparison.