Obama Has Actually Ordered Guantanamo Closed

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Thursday January 22, 2009 · 8:41 AM PST

2009/01/22 · 08:41

While it was a widely expected move, it has now finally happened! President Obama has ordered the closure of Guantanamo! From the BBC:

US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp within one year.

The order fulfils a long-standing pledge by Mr Obama.

At Mr Obama's request, military judges have already suspended several of the trials of terror suspects at the Guantanamo detention centre.

He has also ordered a review of the military trials and a ban of harsh interrogation techniques that many consider to amount to torture.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 11:47 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 23:47

Monday morning Nate Silver suggested, and I strongly agreed, that McCain was planning a "reboot" of his campaign leading into tonight's debate. It boiled down to that he was going to follow Kristol's advice "including some combination of (i) pledging to run a positive campaign; (ii) firing/demoting Steve Schmidt and or/Rick Davis; (iii) apologizing for his campaign's tone."

Clearly I was very, very wrong.

But, I think I know why...

I had assumed that McCain and his advisers were fundamentally rational when evaluating the current state of the campaign. Obviously they were terribly misguided and flawed in their approach to achieving campaign goals, but I thought the were at least looking at the polling and trying to adjust to reality. This is assuredly not true, and it was clearly proven tonight at the debate.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 10:39 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 10:39

This much is clear: McCain's strategy of character assassination over the past week has failed. The past week of national and state polling has only shown continued deterioration of McCain's position, and as DemFromCT's detailed post shows again this morning, the campaign's recent efforts to tar Obama with the terrorism label has done nothing but driven up McCain and Palin's negatives.

So, accepting that the "go negative" ploy hasn't worked, the question for the McCain campaign becomes, what next? Nate Silver has a very astute observation this morning.

The McCain campaign is planning on a major "reboot" of its campaign in some point in advance of Wednesday night's debate. This will take on something of the form that Bill Kristol advocates in his must-read Monday AM piece in the Times, including some combination of (i) pledging to run a positive campaign; (ii) firing/demoting Steve Schmidt and or/Rick Davis; (iii) apologizing for his campaign's tone. In fact, Kristol's column may be something of a trial balloon for this strategy.

How does Obama combat this?

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Thursday June 26, 2008 · 10:09 PM PDT

2008/06/26 · 22:09

I used to have a lot of respect for Ralph Nader. Heck, I even voted for him once (though admittedly only after watching polls to sure Maine was going to go blue in the election).

However, this is not okay.

"There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American," Nader told the paper in comments published Tuesday.

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 12:18 PM PDT

2008/06/03 · 12:18

So... I wanted to take some time to record my own experiences there as an Alternate for Barack Obama from Hancock County. However, I felt it was important to let my feelings on the weekend settle for a bit before I wrote it up, so I delayed until today (not to mention that I've been inundated with work upon my return). I crossposted this over at Turn Maine Blue as well. If you haven't also seen the report from badger1968 or the report on TMB from Eddie in ME, they are both valuable reads as well.

First, a little background... I'm just a "regular guy" who volunteered at the Caucus to be a Delegate to the convention (along with my wife). I've never been to a State Convention before, in Maine or elsewhere. I'm just a long-time supporter of Barack Obama, though I volunteer fairly regularly for the Hancock County Democratic Committee. Other than volunteering, I have really no other official connection to the party.

I guess it is best to start at the beginning...

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