The Honeymoon Ends?

Matt Taibbi is tired of Obama's Guantanamo feet dragging:

It’s one thing to change your mind or play both sides of the fence on matters that don’t involve human lives, on theoretical/hypothetical campaign issues, but another thing to do it with actual incarcerated human beings as the key variable in the political equation.

I still like Obama, in a lot of ways. Having a president with less ability to inspire public confidence at a time like this, with our economy in such a death spiral, would be a disaster; God knows where we’d be right now with a McCain or a Mike Huckabee at the helm. But this guy has to show some stones somewhere along the line. He has to just forget the DC game and just take a clear stand on an issue like this sometime. He’s kind of running out of time to rescue his all-important first impression.

I thnk Gitmo will be closed despite the politics of fear which remains very potent, especially with a former vice-president doing his best to sabotage his successors. And I think reserving your strength for a real push for movement in the Middle East, and for a real attempt to find and kill al Qeada's top leaderhsip in Af-Pak, are not foot-dragging. They're ballsy moves.