Reply #167: Post-partisanship automatically makes those possibilities "on the table." [View All]

[joshcryer]

In fact, during the health care debate Obama's officials didn't fully bemoan the mandate, indeed, Obama http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/10/why_obama_didnt_press_for_mand">just kept quiet on it because he knew it was going to happen, so I knew that they were on the table in his mind even if he displayed new revamped Harry and Louise ads to admonish the idea.

During the campaign Obama was http://articles.cnn.com/2008-08-02/politics/campaign.wrap_1_offshore-oil-drilling-obama-gas-prices">playing the middle on offshore drilling, Obama http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28788175/ns/politics-white_house/t/obama-orders-cia-prisons-guantanamo-shut/">ordered the closing of Guantanamo, yet http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/20/barack-obama-guantanamo-congress-veto">Congress vetoed him. (Obama gets the blame, though, as per usual. And people wonder why "infiltrators" are suspected here.) Meanwhile Obama http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1010/Deal_could_avoid_military_trial_for_child_soldier.html">avoided a lengthy trial for Khadr who http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-25/us/khadr.plea_1_youngest-guantanamo-detainee-1st-class-christopher-speer-plea-agreement?_s=PM:US">plead guilty and should be released soon.

FYI all of these still outrage me, because I cannot say that any post-partisan candidate could ever take a strong stance on anything. Your dishonest characterization of Obama's positions won't change that fact.