We voted for the guy and I think patience is definitely still in order.

Dealing with what to do with extremely dangerous combatants, in a just and fair way, after the previous administration, is just about the most complicated thing imaginable.

Let’s say you have someone you know is extremely dangerous, but the evidence isn’t any good — let’s say it was obtained illegally. What do you propose Matt?

Are you really saying we should let them go, maybe let Khalid Sheik Mohammed free?

All the editorial pages in the country are aimed at your actions, you have two houses of the legislature trying to cut funding for your projects and stonewall you to get reelected. At the same time, you lead a country that has had eight seasons of “Dancing with the Stars”. Obama probably got bogged down at some point, and if he’s “unilateral” (aka clearheadedly progressive) on Gitmo, he’ll lose steam for Universal Healthcare and banking reform.

I wish I had the solution. So let’s say we begin trials or tribunals, and Allah al-Allah is not guilty and is freed. But he’s so bitter and jaded and hateful for what we’ve done to him that he actually says, well, FUCK YOU, AMERICA! then volunteers to unleash a dirty bomb in Dallas, or at an American consulate in Dubai.

That’s the dirty what-if should Obama do what he said should be done with these accused terrorists.

Talk and take a hard line, just as you accuse the President of doing when he wasn’t the President, and then just like back in the Clinton days when supporters and specifically the feminists groups said bubkus over a little girl being taken advantage (yes, yes, she was old enough to smoke cigars, I get it, mutual consent, but…) of by the most POWERFUL man in the world (right, I get it, just sex…) you let him off the hook with “I still like Obama, in a lot of ways. But… Blah, blah, blah a death spiral… He better do something soon, blah blah blah…”

Please!

You see, in the case you talk about I have little problem with the President doing what he needs to do (—he brings the Gitmo “detainees” here—I have a big problem!) this is where we disagree.

You and the President are both realizing that it’s one thing to criticize and promise, it’s another thing to be in the position, weigh the consequences, and make a decision…

—iChef