White House may fire Greg Craig for the administration’s failure to close GITMO

  During the campaign President Obama promised to close GITMO and when he signed the executive order that ordered GITMO to be closed next January it marked the first, and only campaign promise to the far left that he has kept.

  But Barack Obama botched the GITMO closing from the very beginning, Sure, he threw his far left lap dogs a bone to keep them happy but he hasn’t accomplished anything on the GITMO issue yet, and he is going to miss his January deadline for closing GITMO.

  His biggest problem was the fact that he was too short-sighted– he signed the order to close GITMO without even bothering to decide what to do with the prisoners. Even the Democrat controlled congress realized what a disaster this was and  withheld the funding for the closure of GITMO by a 90-6 vote.

  As the article I linked to above states; once it was learned that terrorists may be headed to the United States for trial once they were released from GITMO whatever public support the president had for closing GITMO eroded. I still believe that there was never widespread support behind closing GITMO and I still believe that closing GITMO was mainly only a serious issue to the far left. But those who are not on the far left who supported the closing of GITMO had second thoughts once the idea was floated about bring some of these terrorists to the United States for trial.

  The vote in the senate alone should have been enough for the president to realize that the support to close GITMO just isn’t there– with the people and in the senate. It was a campaign issue during the Democrat primary when all of the far left voters came out to nominate the most liberal person that they could find, but the average American person would just assume keep the prisoners right where they are.

  Once the president actually has a plan on what to do with the GITMO detainees perhaps the senate will reverse itself and vote to give Obama the funds he needs to close the prison. If he wasn’t in such a hurry to appease the far left he probably would have taken the time to devise a plan before he ordered the prison closed. He was in a hurry and so he worked backwards, he signed the order and then just hoped he would come up with a plan in time to keep his deadline. That is not going to happen.

  These were serious miscalculations by the president and now it is time to play the blame game. President Obama couldn’t possibly be at fault for his own rash decisions. Somebody has to take the fall for the president, so move over granny, and make room for Greg Craig. It is getting crowded under the bus