Posted on 08/03/2009 9:17:49 PM PDT by mfnorman
WASHINGTON -- Obama administration officials are holding discussions that could result in White House counsel Gregory Craig leaving his post, following a rocky tenure, people familiar with the matter said.
Mr. Craig, the top lawyer at the White House and a close aide to President Barack Obama, has helped lead the administration's efforts on several national-security issues that have stirred political problems for Mr. Obama.
These include the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the release of Bush administration-era national-security documents, and efforts to find legal ways to indefinitely hold some detainees who can't be put on trial.
Mr. Craig didn't respond to questions for this article.
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No, Obama is going to throw Craig under the bus next...
High damned time. The one should have known better than to hire a crank like Craig.
“Obama is going to throw Craig under the bus next...”
Absolutely correct.
Mr. Big Connections in Cuba running into aqua caliente. Oh, this is so terrible for him.
Interesting.
And who’s waiting in the wings to take Craig’s place?
Is Obama beginning to purge the Clintonistas and replace them with his Chicago acquaintances?
No bunch is more adept in sticking a knife in a colleague's back like the far Left. There is no room for loyalty in the movement, and if someone makes a convenient scapegoat, it is their duty to the party to accept their role.
efforts to find legal ways to indefinitely hold some detainees who can't be put on trial.
It is not possible to give enemy combatant terrorists civilian-style rights and also hold them indefinitely. It's the legal equivalent of trying to square the circle.
bookmark!
Plenty of room for everybody.
Wait a minute- these people were put into their respective positions because they towed the Obamist line. Don’t think they were put there to think indendently. If Obama is throwing them out, it is because HIS agenda, pushed by them, is failing. No executive puts into place people who diverge from the executive agenda. If Obama is tossing these people, it’s because they couldn’t promote his neo-Marxist successfully enough.
Pleasant suprise for Mr. Craig when he opens tomorrow's newspaper.
Another thug move (not to mention utterly classless and cowardly) by the administration.
Obama is no executive, Never has been never will be. A nobody who appeared from nowhere has been elected as the most powerful man on the face of the earth and he is unable to string more than four words together without the aid of a TelePrompter.
Maybe. But, it seems to me that Craig just hasn't been able to keep Obama from being Obama. Virtually everything he (Craig) has done has been something that Obama mentioned as wanting to do in his campaign (at least the primary campaign) - closing Guantanamo, Investigating Bush, rolling back Bush imposed security measures. So, Obama starts doing what he said he was going to do, then the stark reality hits the American public. What seemed like a great idea in concept turned out to be a horrible idea - a surprise to everyone in America and the media, except for the people who actually voted for McCain. They knew it was a bad idea from the very beginning.
Obama has said that he wanted to close Guantanamo all along, if only to placate his leftist base. So did Bush. But, Bush was honest enough to admit that there wasn't any better option. Obama says he's going to "get it done, but, no one asks him how he was going to get Gitmo closed. He still doesn't have a plane six+ months into his administration. And yet, Craig is somehow the fall guy? It's not Craig's fault Obama's strategy is flawed to begin with.
Obama's unpopularity stems from the Obama, not his subordinates. Firing Craig will buy a couple days of favorable press coverage, maybe - but nothing fundamental will change in Obama's policies, and that's his Achilles's heel.
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