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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obey Didn't Obey Obama
by Rich Galen
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


What are some other choices? We could build prisons in Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, or Guam, or American Samoa and ship them there. They all have non-voting representatives to the U.S. House just like D.C., but we might just as well leave them at Guantanamo if we're going to do that.

The point here is, Obama made a promise he can't keep: Close Guantanamo. Can't do it without a plan as to what to do with the terrorists who are housed there. As Rep. Obey said, "When they have a plan, they're welcome to come back and talk to us."

It is not just finding a place for the Guantanamo terrorists, it is the Democrats in Congress getting just a little worried about Obama's capacity to maintain America's safety. Afghanistan and Pakistan are going in the wrong direction and Obama's Personality Parade to Europe a month ago did not convince our crack European allies to put any more of their troops in harm's way to help change things.

According to the Associated Press, the military spending bill which David Obey's committee is deliberating is about $9 billion more than Obama requested.

If, God forbid, America or American interests are attacked, Members of Congress want to be able to tell their constituents it wasn't their fault.

Welcome, Mr. President, to the NFL.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: May 7, 2009 - 8:25 PM EST
There WAS Nothing Wrong w/Gitmo!!
The Fixation that "Gitmo" was bad, Gitmo was a Torture Chamber, etc, etc..Gitmo AS A POLITICAL PLOY that the Dems used to Criminalize Bush and Cheny!! Gitmo, as I recall Had been a Navy Brig (in addition to it's normal functions whatever they were) for a LONG TIME..A friend in Alaska, with whom I flew a HOMEMADE AIRPLane in the 1962 time frame, had been a Marine Guard at GITMO Long before that..I hear inside "trash" that they're gonna be PUSHED OFF on Alexandria VA..The whole TRANSFER?CLOSURE SCHEME SUCKS!! CHEERS!!
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Reply # 2
Date: May 7, 2009 - 4:31 PM EST
Obey Was Wrong!!
President Obama has a Plan. It is called an "Exit Strategy". The Terrorist were wrongfully incarcerated, apologize, pay them, and release them in Colorado. The Democrats even have their own Plan. It is called "Retreat and Withdraw". Send John Kerry to talk to those countries, no one in the media ever names them, that no longer respect America,apologize, pay them, and drop the Terrorist out of Airforce One with a copy of Obama's video while the plane is doing a photo op over Tehran. Now you may not like the Plan, but the Democrats had several of them.
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