How Charming

If President Barack Obama could go back to his first day in office, he told a crowd in Cleveland, he would close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

On his second full day in office, Obama did sign an executive order that was cast as a directive to close Guantanamo within a year. But it actually created a task force charged with creating a plan to close the detention facility. By the time the group released its plan on Jan. 22, 2010, the bipartisan consensus around closing Gitmo had dissipated and the administration had other priorities for spending its political capital.

  Politico

So, scores of innocent men have been imprisoned for lack of convenience on the President’s part?

He lost bipartisan support.  No other reason.  This is a textbook description of a political prisoner.

After opposition grew, Obama acknowledged Wednesday, “the path of least resistance was to just keep it open even though it’s not who we are as a country.”

That’s what I call a real leader. Taking the “path of least resistance.”

Obama said he also had some regrets about delaying a new approach to personal grooming.

“I was thinking maybe I should’ve told myself to start dying my hair now, before people noticed, because by a year in it was too late,” he said. “Michelle thinks I look distinguished.”

Har, har, har. Guantánamo is equal in importance to the color of his hair. Both are apparently more important than the drone-killing of thousands of innocent people and the stealing of millions from Americans’ retirements.