I really do wonder if Obama is that clueless about how such a move would be perceived. Does he not realize that people would see him as even less competent than they do now?
Well, he’s an enemy combatant - this is what I would expect him to do.
[Does he not realize that people would see him as even less competent than they do now?]
He doesn’t expect to influence the mainstream but to throw a bone to his shrinking liberal base. He is losing his base by the hour and is in a panic—a dangerous state of mind for a president.
I have been searching the web to see where this idea came from.
Does anyone know what started the push to close Gitmo in the first place? Was this just campaign rhetoric that got out of hand or was there a reason given for bringing terrorists into our jails and courts?