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Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Think Obama’s GITMO Decision is Stupid
The Republican Liberty Caucus ^ | 1/23/2009 | Publicola

Posted on 01/23/2009 5:34:27 AM PST by obamaisandrogynous

So much for his ill-deserved reputation as the smartest guy in the world…Obama can no longer vote “present” as in the Illinois Senate, or rarely vote as in the U.S. Senate, and the GITMO closure, his first big decision, is being seen as “stupid” by 58 percent of Americans.

See,

http://news.aol.com/article/rep-kirsten-gillibrand-likely-ny-senate/291579?icid=200100397×1217672257x1201184544

Poll breakdown:

39,825 polled

Poll Question:

How stupid is Obama’s decision to close GITMO within a year?

47 percent “very stupid” 8 percent “medium stupid” 3 percent “a little stupid” 42 percent “not at all stupid”

A plurality of Americans think Obama’s first big presidential decision is “very stupid.” The uninformed, peacenik coalition of November voters is already breaking up in the face of the reality of terrorism.

(Excerpt) Read more at rlcil.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; bho44; bhogwot; gitmo; obama; poll; terrorists
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This is going to be a wretched four years.
1 posted on 01/23/2009 5:34:28 AM PST by obamaisandrogynous
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To: obamaisandrogynous

The Gitmo Gang he doesn’t know what to do with because he painted himself in a corner, giving them citizens’ rights, applying new definitions of torture, therfore effecting evidence obatined by previously legal methods. Now he is faced with bringing these folks onto American soil for trial and possibly having to release them here.

These guys have to redeem themselves becuase they spilled their guts. They can’t go home. The WANT to be “martyred”, go out with a bang. How do you think they will do that if Hussein releases them?

I say send these turncoats back to their people and let them deal with it expediently.


2 posted on 01/23/2009 5:36:30 AM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: obamaisandrogynous

I honestly think they should move the detainees in next door to Congress or the White House.


3 posted on 01/23/2009 5:36:51 AM PST by Ptaz (Take Personal Responsibility--it's not fun, but it's the right thing to do.)
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To: obamaisandrogynous

Stupid man, stupid decision.


4 posted on 01/23/2009 5:37:55 AM PST by RPTMS
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To: obamaisandrogynous

Most Americans always opposed most of Obama’s liberal positions.

Obama lied about his positions during the campaign.

To the extent people knew his real leanings many voted for him like idiots anyway.


5 posted on 01/23/2009 5:37:59 AM PST by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: obamaisandrogynous
Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Think Obama’s GITMO Decision is Stupid

Elections have consequences.
6 posted on 01/23/2009 5:38:07 AM PST by JamesP81 (I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
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To: obamaisandrogynous

It will have its amusing moments, IMO. Sort of like the cheap movies as entertainment during the Great Depression.

So far, not one state with a supermax and not one base with a secure brig will accept these terrorists. Any Senator, like Graham, who is so far mum on his opinion, who tries to get his own state to accept them is going to be committing political suicide. No foreign country is keen on taking them, either.

I predict that even a small attack is going to reopen the waterboarding issue, as well.

It could devolve into something we could call “Dancing with the Pols”.


7 posted on 01/23/2009 5:41:48 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: obamaisandrogynous

Dont worry, the supposed dead MSM will correct this by 6:00 P.M. this evening with their own Obamasized polls. Yeah, the MSM is on a deathwatch all right.


8 posted on 01/23/2009 5:41:50 AM PST by stevecmd
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To: obamaisandrogynous

“Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Think Obama’s GITMO Decision is Stupid”

Tell it to Mango Tree Lawyer Greg Craig, our 44th president.


9 posted on 01/23/2009 5:44:54 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: obamaisandrogynous

Was the ‘Preserve, Protect, and Defend’ omitted?


10 posted on 01/23/2009 5:45:00 AM PST by Peelod (Was the 'Preserve, Protect, and Defend' omitted?)
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To: obamaisandrogynous
Hopefully soon 58% of Americans will realize that Obama is stupid.

Obama is quickly demonstrating that he is a man with a lot of knowledge and virtually no wisdom.

11 posted on 01/23/2009 5:45:11 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: obamaisandrogynous

They got up and declared yesterday that this decision would make America safer.

I want someone from Barry’s admin to explain in detail how this makes us safer.

If they think it’s because the jihadis won’t attack us because we showed how nice we are, I want them ON THE RECORD SAYING THIS.


12 posted on 01/23/2009 5:45:32 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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Maybe they can relocate them to the new visitor’s center outside the Capitol building.


13 posted on 01/23/2009 5:45:34 AM PST by ReeseBN38416
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To: stevecmd

Obama even said he wants to restore habeas corpus in his
inauguration speech.He left out that would be to terrorist
murders!


14 posted on 01/23/2009 5:46:45 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: stevecmd
1) Yes, the MSM is still very powerful.
2) Yes, the MSM will release a poll showing that everyone in the US is wildly supportive of the closing of Gitmo.
3) In addition, the world supports it, and Obama is president of the world, so this matters a great deal.
15 posted on 01/23/2009 5:46:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: P-Marlowe

Fear (respect) of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Notice it doesn’t say “lip service to the Lord”.


16 posted on 01/23/2009 5:46:49 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: obamaisandrogynous
I actually heard a reporter say that if any were released after a “legal” trial HERE in the US, that the FBI could watch them.

scary how many people in the US think this way, someone should ask Murtha WHEN THEY BUILD A PRISON IN HIS DISTRICT WILL IT BE NEXT TO HIS HOUSE?

17 posted on 01/23/2009 5:47:56 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: obamaisandrogynous

Stupid decision? Without a doubt, but what did we expect from Obozo?

On the up side, he has now taken personal responsibility for any future terrorist attacks against this nation because of his decision to coddle these bastards.


18 posted on 01/23/2009 5:49:09 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: obamaisandrogynous

It should be 90%. We where on the same page after 9/11 then carville gave the media and dnc marching orders.
It is absolute insanity that all this is happening post 9/11. Its like it never happened, at all.


19 posted on 01/23/2009 5:49:30 AM PST by omega4179 (1.20.13 end of an error)
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To: Ptaz
I honestly think they should move the detainees in next door to Congress or the White House.

Might as well, they're already full of terrorists.
20 posted on 01/23/2009 5:50:52 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (The Big 3 Auto Makers - Where Attention to Kwality is Jobe Won.)
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