Creating the Petard to be Hoist Upon

There's many a slip between cup and lip, or between the campaign trail and the realities of responsibility. That's why we find the Messiah pretty much in full debacle retreat on the Quantanamo issue. It just felt so warm, fuzzy, human and, darn it I'm going to say it, American when he promised to get rid of the detention facility and let those poor mis-treated Jihadists head for home.

Yes, there might be some trials but then justice would be served. They would have their day in court then be released to live the American dream as envisioned in a M. Night Shyamalan movie. Their home country would welcome a lot of them back, our European allies would have their outrage assuaged and love us again, and we would get to know what lovable folks these bearded fellows were.

Now increasingly he is backtracking. His good buds in the Senate just played slap-down with a 90-6 vote against funding the Gitmo shut-down. Obama is back on the campaign stump, standing before a backdrop of basic American documents and rambling about "truth, justic and the American Way."

Krauthammer Covers It Better Than I Can

This pretty much says it all:

Saint Helena needs refurbishing. Elba didn't work out too well the first time. And Devil's Island is now a tourist destination.