Obama Pundit

by Obama Pundit
My memory isn’t what it used to be, but didn’t the media and most political commentators used to love Moderates? 
It seems like under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, the media was always preaching that it was the Moderates that had to be accommodated to slow down the Conservative agenda.  Moderates had the wisdom [...]

by C. William Chattin
Christopher,
The motives of the ”shutter Gitmo” advocates vary enough not to be easily pigeon-holed.  For sure, a large block of the Left seeks to advance a transformed America, as you identify.  But, that’s not necessarily true of all of them, nor is it the case that calls for Gitmo closure should be casually dismissed [...]

by Obama Pundit
Just read this piece by Fred Kaplan over at Slate that purports to expose Dick Cheney’s ‘lying’ in his speech on torture yesterday as opposed to Obama, who “…spelled out his logic, backed up his talking points with facts, and put forth a policy grounded—at least in his view—not just in lofty ideals [...]

by Christopher Huston
Bill, I think you are spot on. 
To me, though, the purpose of harping on things like Gitmo, enhanced interrogation, etc., is so that America’s actions can be conflated with those of other nasty countries around the world.  Once the idea of America’s moral superiority has been vanquished–something the Left appears eager to achieve despite [...]

by C. William Chattin
I’m still digesting that part of President Obama (PBHO)’s National Archives speech addressed to the disposition of Guantanamo Bay detainees.  While the president seems rhetorically committed to closing Gitmo, his fervor to expend political capital in that pursuit remains, at best, suspect .
The movement to close Gitmo has always perplexed me.  At bottom, the colorable arguments for shutting the [...]