Palin: These are difficult issues.
As Byron York notes in the link above; governing is different than campaigning.
It’s often said that Obama is learning what it means to be commander in chief, now that he bears the burden of the nation’s security. Governing, it is said, is different from campaigning. But do you really believe Obama didn’t know what was involved in closing Guantanamo back when he was giving all those campaign speeches? It is simply not credible to argue that Obama, during the campaign, didn’t know that our foreign allies would not take Gitmo prisoners, didn’t know that transferring them to our domestic prisons would involve significant risks and didn’t know that American communities would not welcome terrorists as neighbors.
But he glossed over it all. Now, he’s in office and he’s running out of time. The Senate’s ban on funding will remain in effect until Sept. 30, the end of this fiscal year. That means Obama can’t do anything before Oct. 1 and will have very little time to shut down Guantanamo before his self-imposed deadline of Jan. 22, 2010.
In 2007, Obama said, “That’s easy. Close down Guantanamo.” On Thursday, he said, “Let me be blunt: There are no neat or easy answers here.”
Since President Obama agrees with Governor Palin; can't we all now agree that Candidate Obama was flat out wrong ?!
Dan Henninger remarked: "I watched this 60-minute speech. I thought it was the most moralistic, holier-than-thou, self-righteous address by a major figure that I have seen in a long time. I mean, the sense of arrogance and righteousness that Obama conveyed over the Bush administration, I personally thought was really quite offensive. And I think it probably did rub a lot of people the wrong way. He simply says, I'm not to blame for any of this, but I'm better and more moral than the Bush administration, and that's why we're doing this."
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Actually, on second thought, Obama reminds me of an attorney I used to work with a long time ago. Nothing was ever his fault, even when it was.
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