Obama Pundit

by C. William Chattin
Moments after Scott Roeder, the apparent trigger-man in the George Tiller murder, was apprehended, I (only half jokingly) asked friends if Roeder should be subjected to Bush-Cheney “enhanced interrogations.”  It was somewhat debatable (at least at the time) whether Roeder should be thought of as a true domestic terrorist or a run-of-the-mill [...]

by C. William Chattin
Byron York had a very interesting piece up over the weekend on how Gitmo has, or may have (depending on your p.o.v.), served as a rallying cry for jihadists.  I suggest everyone read the entire piece, but I’ll summarize the major points below.
Of all the arguments advanced for closing the $200 million [...]

by Obama Pundit
Obama on the idea of transferring hundreds of terrorists to American prisons, Thursday, May 21:
Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that [...]

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 [...]