Obama Announces Plan to Close Guantanamo

[Pitfalls0117]

Press conference is live now; submitting a plan to Congress this week

 

[Jello Biafra]

Just watched his speech on it and almost immediately after he was done Mitch McConnell shot out a press release vowing to block it.
I am wondering if this is just Obama offering an olive branch to the Repubs and before its all over he will just use an Executive Order to close Gitmo?

 

[Robbie3000]

Senioritis has set in....Obama pushing his fukk it list.

 

[hashmander]

can he even close it by executive order? that would be contested immediately and it would be up to the supreme court. and even if was ruled constitutional some of the prisoners would have to be transferred stateside and it would just be a version of gitmo on the mainland. he's basically just doing this as a reminder to people before he leaves that the only reason gitmo is still open is because your elected representatives aren't having it and you all seem to forget that when talking that "he didn't close gitmo" noise.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Obama is an elite level point guard the way he is giving alley oop passes to the Democratic Party

 

[Strapped]

just close it