Obama faces a fact...

Boston Herald ^ | March 13, 2011 | Staff

[fightinJAG]

President Obama’s order to resume trials by military commissions of some prisoners at the Navy’s Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba marks his recognition (though he’ll never say it out loud) that the Bush administration was correct in pursuing that course.

Obama pledged during the campaign to close the prison if elected, and bring prisoners to trial in civilian courts in the United States. Congress has essentially forbidden that.

Congress often is accused of “interfering” with the administration’s prerogatives, but consider how members of Congress see it. No matter where held, a U.S. trial could be the target of an attack by al-Qaeda. Guantanamo is about as secure a base as there is — terrorists can’t just drive there; it’s on an island.

[RC2]

Has he also realized that his presidency is over. He’s useless now and as far as the people are concerned, has no authority over them.

[AFreeBird]

Party on dude!

[kearnyirish2]

Even before the mid-term elections he has governed as though he’s already been told he’s not the candidate for the 2012 election; since the 2010 results it has only become more obvious. He’s either not running, or will create 100 million new citizens in time for the election.

I don’t see Dem donors wasting money on a long-shot re-election bid, and I don’t see other Dems “down the ticket” wanting to take his lashings for him as they did in 2010.

[RC2]

I firmly believe that Republicans can totally beat him in 2012 if, and only if, they come out with the strongest candidate they can. And I mean a candidate that totally believes in this country.

[proxy_user]

The way things are going, he may not even be the Dem candidate in 2012.

[dhs12345]

Clinton became more centrist during his second term. Maybe Obama is headed in that direction, too. Not because he wants to but out of necessity.

There is the Liberal world and then there is the real world.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fightinJAG. It's not that he's finally facing reality, it's that he was LYING before. And there's no reason to think that's going to cease.

President Obama's order to resume trials by military commissions of some prisoners at the Navy's Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba marks his recognition (though he'll never say it out loud) that the Bush administration was correct in pursuing that course.

[kearnyirish2]

Possibly, though I think if the jobs situation doesn’t drastically improve anyone will beat him.

[aruanan]

President Obama’s order to resume trials by military commissions of some prisoners at the Navy’s Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba marks his recognition (though he’ll never say it out loud) that the Bush administration was correct in pursuing that course.

No, it marks his recognition that he's pissed away nearly all support from nearly all sectors of the electorate and, given that the radical left is not enough to get him reelected, he's doing something he thinks will make a much larger sector of the electorate think favorably of him. He's wrong. He's toast.