White House regroups on closing Guantanamo (Obama Amateur Hour catching up with him)

msnbc ^ | 9/25/2009 | Anne E. Kornblut and Dafna Linzer/WP

[tobyhill]

With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind schedule and left them struggling to win the cooperation of Congress.

Even before the inauguration, President Obama's top advisers settled on a course of action they were counseled against: announcing that they would close the facility within one year. Today, officials are acknowledging that they will be hard-pressed to meet that goal.

The White House has faltered in part because of the legal, political and diplomatic complexities involved in determining what to do with more than 200 terrorism suspects at the prison. But senior advisers privately acknowledge not devising a concrete plan for where to move the detainees and mishandling Congress.

[Huskrrrr]

Obama needs a Czar in charge of coin flipping, to choose policy positions..

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

This headline caught my eye as I was just commenting about how our president's incompetence and inexperience is catching up with him in Afghanistan, as it will in many important areas.

I guess grossly incompetent management is a sure way of achieving his obvious objective of lowering the United States to third world status, though, so in a sense he can't lose, since to him losing (for the U.S.) is winning.

[tobyhill]

The Coin Flipping Czar. I like that.

[Popman]

But senior advisers privately acknowledge not devising a concrete plan for where to move the detainees and mishandling Congress.

No way. Jose!!!

Even an junior ass clown in middle school could have figured out closing Gitmo would be an issue

[Doogle]

..after crowing that he closed gitmo in his speech at the UN......(just another world wide lie)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I thinks this calls for a ‘Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Czar’. /s

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Two Headed Coin Flipping Czar.

The Zero needs two heads because his tail is always between his legs.

[tobyhill]

Obama said he had a plan and it was the best plan. That's how he got elected. /sarc

[FlingWingFlyer]

I still think of BO as being the freshman Senator from Illinois who seldom comes to work and always votes present when he does. BO is proof that good help is hard to find in America these days.

[Popman]

Craig said Thursday that some of his early assumptions were based on miscalculations, in part because Bush administration officials and senior Republicans in Congress had spoken publicly about closing the facility. "I thought there was, in fact, and I may have been wrong, a broad consensus about the importance to our national security objectives to close Guantanamo and how keeping Guantanamo open actually did damage to our national security objectives," he said.

The dog ate my homework, Bush is at fault and republicans in general were wrong all in ONE SENTENCE.

Under the bus they go.

These people are so clueless

[TheShaz]

Looking in my crystal ball....it looks blurry....

Merry Christmas from Guantanamo Bay!

(AP) The Anointed One has done it! With less than a week till the end of the year, has removed all prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. They are all now located in barges in the bay, but that's besides the point. Our Savior Barrack Obama has accomplished what many said would be impossible. All prisoners removed from the base. Some minor grumblings from Republicans in Congress that the prisoners are still there but on ships in the harbor. Those outbursts have been labeled as racists by the majority leadership and the media.

Again, breaking news from Guantanamo Bay Cuba, all prisoners have been removed, The Great One has done it! Tune in tomorrow, Obama will Walk on Water LIVE on M$NBC!

[granite]

All wee wee’d up!

[Don Corleone]

They had better clear out major space there ‘cause we hope to send a lot of the current administrations people down for a season or more in the sun.

[rdl6989]

Maybe he can borrow an official from the NFL.