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To: tejek who wrote (482737)	5/22/2009 12:25:25 PM
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POINTING FINGERS "While insisting 'we need to focus on the future,' President Obama devoted much of his speech on terrorist detainees [Thursday] to denouncing the policies of President Bush's administration," Fred Barnes writes at www.weeklystandard .com. "He faulted everyone in Washington for 'pointing fingers at one another,' yet pointed his own finger frequently, and critically, at the Bush administration. Obama said America's problems won't be solved 'unless we solve them together' - in a divisive and partisan speech certain to alienate Republicans and conservatives," Mr. Barnes said. "If any president has gone to such lengths to attack his White House predecessor as Obama did [Thursday], I don't recall it. True, presidents have blamed the prior administration for problems they inherit, but I can't think of a president who did so as aggressively and with such moral preening as Obama. "There was a reason for this. His speech was a dodge because when it came to the issue at hand - what to do with the 240 remaining terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo - he had no answer at all. Instead, the best he could do was elaborate on the five categories in which his administration has pigeonholed the detainees. "He reiterated his intention to shut down Guantanamo, though he didn't repeat the artificial deadline for closure (next Jan. 22). But he didn't offer a plan for dealing with prisoners so dangerous they can't be released, citing Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11 as an example. "Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are demanding a plan before they appropriate funds for closing Guantanamo. Obama said he's still working on that, four months after he announced the prison would be closed."