A cosmetic move that changes nothing and the Obama administration knows it. But it sounds good on the first day and involves one of the biggest buzzwords.
Yep. Meat for Moonbats. Politically though, it won't play well with the majority. The first of many lessons they will learn. That said, I think too that W and his crew imparted the dangers we face on Obama and more cosmetics for Code Pink et al. will be forthcoming, the real protections remaining in place. Or at least I hope and pray so...
“A cosmetic move that changes nothing and the Obama administration knows it. But it sounds good on the first day and involves one of the biggest buzzwords.” ~ relictele
BINGO!
“..People think that the left in this country is going to be outraged when they find out that Obama won’t close Guantanamo Bay for four years. They won’t hear that! It’s in the Washington Post today but that’s where it will die. What they’re going to hear is an executive order announced to close it. They’re gonna hear that on Tuesday afternoon and it’s a done deal, okay, move on to the next thing. We will remind them of but they don’t want to hear what we say or what we think about it even if we’re quoting their messiah. But remember, the Bush administration shredding the Constitution, suspending habeas corpus in that place called Club Gitmo, where innocents were being held unfairly without trial, without being told what they’re being charged with, without being told when they’ll be released. The Obama administration now hopes — and they, by the way, the Obama administration, campaign, he himself is saying all these things, too — hopes to be able to shut the place down by the end of his first term. ..” ~ Rush Limbaugh - Friday, 01/16/2009
Complete transcript:
Obama Won’t Close Club Gitmo
Friday, January 16, 2009
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125109.member.html
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RUSH: Open Line Friday. Temecula, California, Brittany, welcome. It’s great to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you. Glad to speak with you, and good morning.
RUSH: Good morning.
CALLER: Good morning. I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Brittany. I am the third oldest of ten children, and first generation daughter, born here in America from two parents who emigrated here from Iraq. I have two military brother veterans, one on the way to the Marine Corps, and I would like to speak to you today about Gitmo. And I would like to say, “Today I heard on the news that Barack Obama planned either in the first day or the first week of his term in office, close Gitmo and move them either to Pendleton or somewhere in Kansas.”
RUSH: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
CALLER: No, it won’t happen or no...?
RUSH: No, it’s not going to happen.
CALLER: Well, even if it did happen, I’m just trying to say here that from my perspective of being someone who has relatives in the Middle East and being an American full heartedly —
RUSH: It isn’t going to happen.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Don’t deal in things that aren’t real. Don’t get yourself worked up about something that isn’t going to happen. We got real things to get worked up about here. But closing Gitmo isn’t going to happen. It’s not going to happen. It is not going to happen. He’s not going to close Gitmo. They’re not going to pull out of Iraq until they can secure a 100% victory. They’re not going to pull out of there with the possibility that the place falls apart. It ain’t going to happen.
They’re going to increase troop levels in — well, Bush has increased them; they’re going to take credit for that. ...
..Today’s lead story in the Washington Post reports that President-select Obama, quote: “Will consider it a failure if he has not closed the military prison at Guantanamo Bay by the end of his first term in office.”
Now, that, for those of you who voted for Obama, is four years, not life. Four years. Now, they will issue the executive order on Monday or Tuesday afternoon. I’ll betcha that executive order hits the news while the parade’s going on. “Close Gitmo,” because Obama knows that his Looney Tune fringe kooks in the asylums known as the left-wing blogosphere will be totally placated by Obama.
“We’re closing it. I issued the executive order to close it,” but it isn’t going to happen for four years. So this is how he does it. He does two things at once, both sides of the issue, and gets credit for both, does not end up being criticized. ...
But there was never any intention to close Gitmo. Never. As Obama has said, he has learned some of these people down there are really dangerous — and some of the evidence, though tainted, is true. (interruption) Yes. Liberals will stand for it. He’s too big to fail.
Listen, this is a cult, man. This is a cult! This is a guy who could get people to go to the Hale-Bopp Comet with him Tuesday afternoon if he said that’s where he’s headed.
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RUSH: I constantly suggest to people that they not doubt me. Don’t doubt me. I checked the e-mail during the time-out. People think that the left in this country is going to be outraged when they find out that Obama won’t close Guantanamo Bay for four years.
They won’t hear that! It’s in the Washington Post today but that’s where it will die. What they’re going to hear is an executive order announced to close it. They’re gonna hear that on Tuesday afternoon and it’s a done deal, okay, move on to the next thing.
We will remind them of but they don’t want to hear what we say or what we think about it even if we’re quoting their messiah. But remember, the Bush administration shredding the Constitution, suspending habeas corpus in that place called Club Gitmo, where innocents were being held unfairly without trial, without being told what they’re being charged with, without being told when they’ll be released.
The Obama administration now hopes — and they, by the way, the Obama administration, campaign, he himself is saying all these things, too — hopes to be able to shut the place down by the end of his first term.
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