Playing to the band
So, the President made another windbag speech today this one about national defense in the forms of drone strikes and Guantanamo and it was really nothing more than playing to his base trying to look like the anti-Bush again. Of course, the reasons that he’s cleaved to the drone program and Guantanamo is because this administration has no real solutions beyond what President Bush started. But, in the wake of the recent spate of scandals, Obama knows he can’t get his base on board to continue on with his programs while even Jon Stewart is taking shots at him. From Fox News;
He also spoke in detail about his long-stalled effort to close Guantanamo Bay. He said that the administration is looking for a site inside the U.S. to hold military commissions, while looking to transfer detainees outside of the prison camp once again.
In re-affirming his pledge to close the detention center at Guantanamo, Obama is pushing for a renewed effort to transfer its 166 detainees to other countries. Congress and the White House have sparred since Obama took office in 2009 over the fate of the suspects and whether they can be brought to trial on U.S. soil. In the meantime, the detainees have been held for years with diminishing hope that they will charged with a crime or be given a trial.
Yeah, well, the detainees in Guantanamo are conducting a hunger strike because they know they can move Obama and his policy using that strategy whereas they couldn’t use it against Bush. I’m sure they all thought they’d be released on January 21st, 2009, like Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for draft dodgers his first day in office.
On drones, Obama defended the decision to order a strike on U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. “He was continuously trying to kill people,” Obama said of the Al Qaeda operative.
Trying? al-Awlaki actually had people killed. Carlos Bledsoe actually killed one soldier and wounded another under the influence of al-Awliki in Arkansas. Nidal Hassan killed at least 13 people at Fort Hood, TX at al-Awliki’s behest. Neither Bledsoe nor Hassan have been charged as terrorists, so I guess we can’t really call al-Awliki a terrorist, either.
By the way, Susie Benjamin, the chief hag at Code Pink was at obama’s speech today and she heckled him. I guess Code Pink’s income has been flagging what with two terms of Obama and everything. But, here’s the video;
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
I don’t think the phrase “global war on terror” means what he thinks it means.
It looks to me like ‘ol B. Hussein 0bama is doing anything he can to divert attention from Benghazi and the IRS scandal, let’s see if his diversion attempt fails, I pray that it does!
Susie Excusie Benjamin was a laugh riot. Blah, blah hunger strike…(Why don’t you let me address it?)…blah, blah held illegally…(Why don’t you let me address it?)…blah, blah…close Guantanamo Bay….(Why don’t you let me address it?)..blah, blah…..
I finally found something to like about Code Pinko!
Wait you mean that some of his supporters aren’t giving him passes any more?
Yes, Jason, the support is crumbling away, like sand castles in the surf.
#1 – awesome!
THe Preezy also said, “There have been no large-scale attacks on the United States, and our homeland is more secure.” I guess no one told him about Ft. Hood, Benghazi and Boston?
JPJ, I’m sure that Code Stink is going after him for “continuing” Bush policies.
We’ve had numerous successful terrorist attacks on our soil, several botched, and a great increase of the number of planned attacks. Not to mention whole new regions that have become open safe havens for Islamists within this Administration’s watch.
What a fucking failure this community organizer has been as commander and chief.
If the global war of terror was declared over with by this fool why is the award still being issued in the military? I’d think the buck would stop at the commander’s word especially since he specifically stated as such.
This administration is so pathetic it’s embarrassing for any American paying attention.
Is it my imagination, or is his golden aura beginning to fade a bit?
Clueless does not even begin to describe it.
Whatever.
I have an idea to settle this shit. Let the detainees out of Gitmo…point them east and let them start swimming. Then have the drones lined in in wings and see how many they can sink.
Obama: “Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.”
Dumbass. History advises that wars do not end when democracies want them to. Else, we could have “demanded” the war be over back in 2001.
“Wait you mean that some of his supporters aren’t giving him passes any more?”
I think was she was arranged.
Medea was there earning her paycheck, the money she is paid by Obama for America, TIDES, Ford and Carnegie Foundation contributors and Communist Party USA.
This may not be the week to try going without the teleprompter. How does he get the stage directions for interruptions such as this?
@2 – That’s precisely what I think. I believe Barry is trying to revive his Gitmo discussion to shift attention elsewhere.
Didn’t he say he was going to close that place down 5 years ago?
(Yawn.)
I’m just going to drop this in here, even though it’s dated May 14, because wars aren’t over until WE say they’re over, and WE may have to face this kind of atrocity in the future.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18244907-sheer-savagery-syrian-rebel-rips-out-soldiers-heart-human-rights-watch-says?lite
And personally, I doubt that any of the left wingnuts are prepared to deal with that kind of truly badass stuff.
Also, the riots in Sweden are continuing and the police are warning Americans.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/sweden-riots-cars-schools-torched-in-stockholm-as-violence-continues-for-fifth-day-370754
@12 Or we could soak them in chum made from pork products and let natural selection have a go at it first…