Obama Votes "Present"
on Gitmo

A classified report from the Pentagon reveals that one in five terror suspects released from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay has returned to the fight against America and her allies.

This does not bode well for the President, who upon taking office a year ago immediately signed an Executive Order to close Gitmo by January 2010, a deadline he now acknowledges he missed.

Signing orders to fulfill pie-in-the-sky campaign promises is easy. Actually having a viable plan to carry out the order is the hard part.

Further complicating the matter is the attempted bombing of an airline bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. The would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab told the FBI that he had been trained for his mission by Al Qaeda in Yemen. Just one week prior to the attack, the Obama administration released six accused terrorists from Gitmo and sent them home to Yemen. Feeling safe yet?

So now the President finds himself between a rock and a hard place. He must choose between protecting Americans from avowed terrorists bent on slaughtering as many innocent people as possible, and kowtowing to his increasingly impatient far-left base that expects him to close Gitmo no matter what the life-and-death consequences.

With the passing of his self-imposed deadline, and his promise to get the job done some way, some how, at some unspecified date, President Obama is taking up where he left off as a Senator and voting "present" on Gitmo.