UPDATED – Setback: Obama and Guantanamo May 20, 2009
Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized.Tags: Law, News, Politics, Security
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Marc Ambinder: A Setback of His Own. Plus this: “[T]he politics of Guantanamo will get tougher for Democrats and Obama before they get any easier.”
And from the comments: “What you’re saying is that President Obama condemned the options and insisted that it was not a hard decision, only to come into office and claim essentially that Bush (and especially McCain, who called for additional safeguards to Bush’s basic position) was right all long, and that it was a hard decision.”
Evidently, some issues are better left undemagogued because they can boomerang on you. Hard to predict which issues are vulnerable to this phenomenon. But I think one can expect such a thing to happen much more often with national security issues. National security policy is often a reaction to a perceived threat. When it comes to terrorists, many on the Left want to convince us that the threat is exaggerated. And then reality rears its ugly head…
UPDATE: Cheney getting to Obama?
MORE: White House admits closing Gitmo was a “hasty decision”. I bet some Obama voters are having similar feelings about voting for Obama. But not the Andrew Sullivan types (via Instapundit). From the comments: “Obama lied . . . the “Bush is evil” slogan died.”
