Obama gets to work; order on Gitmo ready

One day one it's already started. Time to start making the terrorists that are detained feel all warm and cozy. Let's turn Gitmo into Club Med for terrorists.

I'm thinking of starting a new business before Oblahma tears down the free market and goes all socialist on us. I would like to be able to have people by teddy bears for the poor terrorist that have been captured. I'd like to call it "Teddies for Terrorists". What do you all think ?

It won't matter that the interrogation of these terrorists might very well prevent another 9/11. The only thing that matters is that they are treated like the wonderful human beings they are and that the "messiah" is President.

9/11 - How soon we forget.

glad to see the President hitting the ground running. There's a lot to do, a huge mess left by the worst president ever. Godspeed President Obama.

The National Prayer Service is one tradition that must be abandoned. And it's ironic that the Episcopal Church, normally so committed to "diversity" and reluctant to encourage cultural consensus, seems to assert its presumed primacy with enthusiasm during the big moments. Perhaps one day we'll have a president who will politely pass on this exercise in hypocrisy.

There certainly should be tension. I had no opinion of Jill Biden before the "slip" but am now trying to decide if she's hateful or just an idiot. Yesterday's short skirt and go-go boots are making me lean towards "idiot." Either way, she needs to be muzzled. I was getting such nice warm fuzzy feelings about the Obama administration until this. As for the Clintons, I like them both a lot and think they're just plain too good for this country. I'll bet there are plenty of struggling countries that would love to have people as smart as them at the controls.

President Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the
world works, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Islam-Arabic, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Islamic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya. Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he
pretends he is exclusively.

What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,' the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.

Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.
WJD

wow 'unbelievable'

its sad to know that obama will do more good in his lifetime than you ever will being a cynic.

I know it must hurt to be worthless

you are a complete idiot, they should detain you in gitmo for treason

Roll up your sleeves, America, let's pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and show the world how to lead and build, rather than oppress and destroy.

Remember 9/11 by punishing those who have harmed (or intend to harm) innocent people - but do so in a justified way, not behind closed doors, using torture as a tool of forced absolution.

It has been documented by Amnesty International that a number of the detainees were never terrorists, but were people with minor visa violations--certainly not a torturable offense. That is, if we were a nation who tortured .. .

These people were "disappeared" without any contact for six weeks, a fact also documented. These are the tactics of a dictator like Pinochet, not a democracy which fancies itself the arbiter of fairness and human rights.

Others detained were children who have spent their teen years in a prison camp.

There is much information available on the unreliability of information obtained through torture. Unfortunately, hard information is not sought by all, but I'd certainly recommend a little reading before writing.

The only thing that's "started" is the ignorant ranting of right wing war mongers like yourself. "Let's turn Gitmo into Club Med for terrorists." The new president has vowed to close this debacle, not turn it into something else. Thinking of starting your own business before “Obama tears down the free market”? Hello, have you been paying attention to what the previous administration did to the "fee market". There's no need to tear it down, Bush policy has already crippled it. I'm not sure what your whole "Teddies for Terrorists" rant is about, but the word is "buy" not "by". How would the interrogation of the terrorist at Gitmo prevent another 9/11? 90% of those terrorist have been imprisoned since 2002. How much intelligence could they possibly provide about current plots in progress? Get it together man, you’re not coming across well.

No one has forgotten anything, "Unbelievable." But what good does it do when the trials are nothing but a farce? FIVE, count 'em, FIVE Military leaders involved in the prosecution of these (alleged) terrorists have resigned their positions because of the lack of fact and truth in these interrogations...

It may be easy for you to invoke 9/11 to support your partisanship but I don't use it so lightly. Fair trials are needed - or our moral lapse makes us no better than the rest of the "wonderful human beings" you mentioned.

Get a grip on reality - don't simply fall back on the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks to boast your partisanship. That's the true disgrace...

Unbelievable:
No-bid contracts to favorite companies, corruption and subsidies from the state to big businesses - both as bailout money for survival and as a matter of policy - does not a free-market make. You're confusing and conflating pro-big-business with pro-market.

Hey "WJD" - what did you do, Cut and Past that "empty suit" rant from all the other message boards... Give it a rest. Here's an idea - why not think for yourself instead of parroting back what the O'Reillys and Limbaughs spout incessantly?

And what difference does it make if his ancestry is African or not? I'm not sure I follow that point. Oh, wait! You're playing on the notion that Any Arab is a Threatening Arab... Well done. You've just proven to everyone that you're a clueless bigot.

You have no point whatsoever...

The problem is proof. The previous administration never did anything to prove anyone there is actually a terrorist.

WJD, your comment is extremely ignorant. You're trying to tell Obama what his identity is. Thanks for insinuating that he's a slave driver because he (might) be the descendant of slave drivers. That's like saying all Germans are Nazis or all white people in America are slave drivers. It appears to me that you've got some serious resentment and anger that you're looking at a President who's a person of color. You're pathetic.

"9/11 - How soon we forget.
Posted by Unbelievable "

9/17/1787 - how soon we forget.

hopefully the damage done to the constitution is reparable.

Obama isn't going to wave a magic wand and make everything all better, but at least there's a captain at the helm steering the ship rather than dimwit George speaking in run on sentences, hiding behind executive orders while Cheney and his dad secretly sell us all down the river so they can get even richer selling arms and oil.

What idiocy!

He's closing Gitmo, but it will remain open because he hasn't figured out yet what to do with the terrorists being detained there, and he's freezing the salaries of his staffers, who have just started their new jobs.

Who does Obama think he is fooling?

WJD (or wjdav as you call yourself on the other message boards) -

DUDE!!! When are you going to get new material?
I've read this little bone-headed blurb of yours like 5 times in the past 2 days!

It's tired man, let it go, delete it from your pc already.
I think you've convinced yourself already (and only yourself)

i really appreciate the positive messages like Josh's (8). Thanks for not pushing your political agenda like right wingers who read a left wing newspaper then complain about it.

High Treason on day one

A GREAT START FOR A GREAT MAN!!!
WAY TO GO OBAMA, YOU ARE WHAT WE THOUGHT YOU WERE.

Ignorance - you voted this idiot in. Just wait - you may still have time to blame Bush. Bush's policies have ruined the country - have you heard of Barney Frank et al? Go back to your art job or professorship. Dumb ass. I think I'll just sit on my ass for 4 years and collect all the goodies. 3 months to go and I can have my mortgage paid, free healthcare, food, earned income credit (welfare again), etc. Wake up you dummies!

WJD#5
I supose Bush W had a stellar resume when he took over, ask the Rangers how he manages things?
How is he hiding his surname? He has more black in him then the past 43 presidents that's what counts, ALL minorities are rejoicing. Now you want to nitpick when identity of other presidents was never a negative. How many of the past presidents were or had parents who were slave owners? Stop with the double standard. Why don't you stop hating and enjoy this historic event, you'll be the same one who will speak proudly to your grand kids that you were here to witness this. So maybe we judge you based on what and who your parents were, or maybe they came here to get away from all that. I'm sure you'll make those "tired and hungry" really proud of you.

@WJD: What, are you going around to ALL the boston.com message boards and posting that same tired message? Starting to sound like a broken record, dude.

WJD#5
I supose Bush W had a stellar resume when he took over, ask the Rangers how he manages things?
How is he hiding his surname? He has more black in him then the past 43 presidents that's what counts, ALL minorities are rejoicing. Now you want to nitpick when identity of other presidents was never a negative. How many of the past presidents were or had parents who were slave owners? Stop with the double standard. Why don't you stop hating and enjoy this historic event, you'll be the same one who will speak proudly to your grand kids that you were here to witness this. So maybe we judge you based on what and who your parents were, or maybe they came here to get away from all that. I'm sure you'll make those "tired and hungry" really proud of you.

LOL. "Obama gets to work".

First job he ever had. Congratulations and welcome to the work force!

To Unbelievable...most experts have already concluded that most of the "residents" of Gitmo could never be prosecuted. The cases have been so badly screwed up by us torturing and other methods. We aren't changing anything on the ground, just acknowledging the fact. Guess it was easier to stick your head in the sand the last 7 years and now point a finger at the new guy? It was the old guy that screwed up the prosecution of terrorists. I hope we can still prosecute some, but I think history will show that most of the "residents" where just people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, picked up by the Northern Alliance for us and we paid the Northern Alliance $...you think they really gave us terrorists...or just warm bodies for the cash?

Dear unbelievable,
Apparently you're another Republican that believes that Sadam was responsible for 9/11. Um, thats why we're going to spend more money in Afghanistan to get the culprit of 9/11, Bin Laden, remember him you idiot?

Cnote - let's all pull a "Geithner" and "forget" to pay our taxes.

Do you think Obama will forgive us for our innocent mistakes?

Yes Unbelievable, its quite unbelievable how much of an idiot you are.

obama i love you and all the rest of the secular progressive hippies on this website.

64% of post graduates voted for Obama. It seams that the idiots voted for McCain.

Obama has more common sense in his pinky than GW has had in his entire life.

Admit it, he was an oaf, an alcoholic, a stuttering clown who would be a great grand poobah of any hunting lodge, but President of the greatest country in the world? What an absolute embarrasment and puppet. Sarah Palin is a genius compared to him, and she got thrown out of 6 colleges. At least George could party like it was 1999 in his hey day.

Repubs are scared, and it must suck living in fear. Go hide in your bomb shelters, no one will miss you

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hey look barak obama is trying. give him a chance. i am glad he is freezing the salaries of the whitehouse staff that is making over 100,000 that is a start in the right direction. You go Barak i am 100% behind you all the way.

Wow, has anyone noticed that our country is still intact, and functioning and that Bush left office quietly and peacefully.

Well, that really shows how ignorant those Demi-Dems are. They said he was a tyrant, and was not going to yield power. In other words he & Cheney were going to pull off a coup, and remain in power for ever (typical liberal emotionalistic melo-drama).

When the real-world evidence finally hits them they just blabber at the mouth, make excuses and continue on with their lies, and associated politics………………

Also, the mouthy black guy who said when “Whites do what is right” must have forgot his dementia medicine….. White just substantially helped to elect an ‘Un-Qualified’ black president. Was that not politically correct enough for him??

I really think he meant to say, “when ‘Rev. Wrong’ does what is Right”.

media induced president

WJD -dude, lots of people are decendant of slave owners. Lots of nice, white folks have ancestors that were slave owners. I mean, my ancestors were German....according to your logic, that makes me a Nazi. Stop calling me a Nazi!!

Next on his agenda is changing the NFL from tackle to tag! This will save on the number of injuries that undisputeably increases healthcare costs. A foam football could easily save on cow hides.

I did not vote for this man because I believe that one has to prove his accomplishments. He is an accomplished politician and dynamic speaker and I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I will not listen to his words and be fooled. He has to deliver. If he doesnt I am going to be the first one to call him a liar and empty vessal.

WJD, Just curious to know if you have any facts to back up your claim that Obama doesn't know how the economy and the world work. Since you made that claim I assume you are an expert on both. Please explain your reasoning.

"It's time to end our childish ways."
Grow up Cnote, Unbelievable, and the rest of you self-centered infants.
It's time to get on board, the train's leaving without you.

I invite all of my fellow Americans to open your heart and mind to the spirit and words behind the initiatives of our new President.

I support you Sir and am praying for our success.

Your fellow citizen,

Brian

Anybody want to start a pool on when the USA will again be attacked by terrorists under this clown's watch ?

The over/under just went from mid to late 2010 to late 2009.

And should it happen, watch all the liberals try to give this empty suit a free pass.

I'm hopeful for the 1st time in a while. By no means am I political but for once I have confidence in the administration. To the people ranting about 9/11 I say this...move on. You don't need to forget to move on but seriously not every single negative event is a result of 9/11 nor is everyone of Arabic decent a conspirator. People forget when their own cause destruction but when it comes from an outside party everyone begins to scream "To War!!" and then soldiers die because of that cry to go to war. Obama is beginning a new age, to me it's an age of hope, to others it is something else but it's something new. You can choose to think of it in a negative way because he is not a old white man then that is your choice but remember this...he is an American just like everyone else here, it's 1 of the requirements of the presidency. So you're not thinking negatively of a foreigner but of a American born man who right now has given many people in this nation something to grasp onto and believe in.

something is weird... spend millions on a first day spectacle... then freeze wages.

this guy needs to look at his own spending before any other part of the govt... and it was just day one.!!! Fiscal responsibility starts with the individual... even the prez

Yesterday the President took an oath to faithfully uphold the Constitution. Today he took his first step. Just because Bush used the Constitution for toilet paper doesn't mean it's the only way to govern. We don't need to abandon the ideals of our forefathers in order to prosecute terrorists. Why are you opposed to following the Geneva Convention for dealing with accused terrorists? Are you afraid it will show that Bush really had no idea how to make the nation safe, so he panicked and imprisoned anyone he thought might be dangerous?

Oh, and "Unbelieveable", no one is forgetting 9/11. We just don't understand why ignorant cynics like yourself have elevated it to the new national holiday. Maybe it's time to remember July 4.

Unbelievable, you are truly unbelievable. What does Oblahma mean anyway?
Throw in a few more reactive buzzwords ("socialist", "mesiah") and you might as well be writing for Fox News.

I guarantee no one here knows about what the government did to South America during the 80s. But why should you know, it wasn't Bush's fault.

I'll pick torturing terrorists over farmers who live in the rain forest any day.

the clintons in the front pew. of course. if they're not the center of attention, then--gosh darn it--there just shouldn't BE any center of attention. they're both wicked smart. would that they had class to match it!

So in the first day of office, Barack finds the most important item on his "To Do" list is not talk to his staff about the economy or anything related to that issue at all. His first item is to close Gitmo immediately and either transfer or release detainees that have called Gitmo their home for the past few years.
WOW! How is this not the #1 story on every news station and internet site, that the great Barack, leader of all who will take us into a better place than where we are today, has decided to release people that may be the world's most dangerous threats to the U.S., out of our custody. Oh, that's right, the media does not want to make headlines out of something their "Knight in Shining Armor / Media Darling" just approved, which is something that I am guessing 70% of Americans would disagree with doing.
You have to be kidding me. Now I am not one into buying this whole "Barrack is a muslim, practices muslim religion, and wants to help muslim terrorist destroy the United States and what it stands for." However, this does not help that stereotype. It does have to make you wonder, why would this be the first item on the agenda. For what reason.

WJD,
Very well. But would you please post your resume so we can see where you are coming from about the President not having one? I am not doubting that yours is much more robust and impressive. You seem wicked smart.

Also assuming you have been to Kenya? I am concerned that I got the wrong impression of Kenya - it seemed real African to me. Please share your travel experience there and let me know what I missed.

I love the people here who claim they're expert economists. Understand this: Warren Buffet put all his support behind Obama and not any Republican. I'd say that tells you alot about what a true expert (and not one of the ignorant morons here) knows -- Obama will generate and foster the ideas we need to progress as a society and an economy.

The opposite of love is not anger, its fear. I think its pretty easy to read these comments and see which are based on which. I believe in the hope Obama offers and believe it is rooted in love - love for our country, and love for humanity. He may make mistakes, but I believe his direction is correct.

There is no upside in cynicism nor pessimism. Isn't that self evident? Let go of your fear. One can be both confident and prudent.

Pointless squabling.

Whether you like it or not, whatever you say, YOU voted him in. You could yell and scream for four years that you hate him, but it ISN"T GOING YOU DO JACK****.

Either vote 'right' next time, post something constructive, or shut the hell up and save us the headache.

O, the president.......

It's a little baffling that Obama can smile and accept the title first african-american President when he is half white. He took that title away from another deserving person who may someday be in office. If things were different and he had resentments towards his black roots and wanted to be only noted for his white heritage he won't have even been allowed to run, regardless of how good his politics were. That says alot for his character. So much for being proud of who you are and where you came from. Not to mention how HE got there. Congratulations to the grandparents who raised him.

Yeah, the fact that Warren Buffet supported Obama means Obama's an economic genius. That's a brilliant leap of logic

Stop living in the bubble world of socialism.