Campaigning was easy. Being president is hard.
Obama is acting like the yapping dog that actually caught the car wheel. Now that he has it, he doesn’t know what to do with it.
How’s that hopey-changy stuff going, Big Guy?
Obama’s big dilemma is that, throughout the campaign, he described military tribunals as immoral and promised to shut them down. Same with Guantanamo. Unfortunately, the left lapped up his speeches like hobos with a case of Mogen David wine.
Obama has broken promise after promise that he made to hardcore leftists, who form the core of his supporters. What happens when the left decides that he’s a wimp and quit supporting him?
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The proposal being floated with members of Congress is another indication of President Barack Obama’s struggles to establish his counter-terrorism policies, balancing security concerns against attempts to alter Bush-administration practices he has harshly criticized.On Wednesday, the president reversed a recent administration decision to release photos showing purported abuse of prisoners at U.S. military facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Obama cited concern that releasing the pictures could endanger U.S. troops. Mr. Obama ordered government lawyers to pull back an earlier court filing promising to release hundreds of photos by month’s end as part a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.…The administration’s internal deliberations on how to deal with Guantanamo detainees are continuing, as the White House wrestles with how to fulfill the president’s promise to shutter the controversial prison. But some elements of the plans are emerging as the administration consults with key members of Congress, as well as with military officials, about what to do with Guantanamo detainees.
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