Obama made a big mistake by trying to close Guantanamo Bay. It gave Republicans an issue to grab onto when they were in grave trouble. All I hear now is how Democrats want to let terrorists into the United States. This is not something we want to be talking about and it needs to be nipped in the bud very quickly. Obama has been very smart about these types of issues in the past. When AG Eric Holder stated that he wanted to bring back the Assault Weapons Ban and his approval rating dropped five points almost overnight. Thankfully, he and Congressional Democrats quickly squashed the idea and he recovered easily.
My advice for Obama would be to quickly put this issue to rest by saying that he reviewed his options and he is going to have to keep the prison open and then quickly move onto other important issues like health care reform. I am confident that Obama will realize what the best thing to do is and get this issue out of the way quickly.
We cannot be giving Republicans issues they can use against us. We cant afford to give them anything to attack us on. The Republicans are loving this issue and the sooner we take it away from them, the better. Bill Clinton fumbled around like this back in 1993 and it destroyed the Democratic party and his agenda. The same must not happen this time.