Go Gitmo!

Nearly at the end of Day One of the stay-the-course Administration of Barack Obama and Gitmo or Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainee center. He did order the Pentagon to suspend prosecutions of detained terrorists for 120 days. Essentially, he decided to hold war criminals longer without trial.

This is a big deal for the Left. If you spend anytime reading DailyKos or other liberal outlets, you know they want to release all of the terrorists or to move it to American soil so that U.S. laws govern the treatment of the prisoners.

Therein lies one of political problems. Where do you put it? Who wants their home values tied to the proximity of a federal detention camp for war criminals?

Obama has already broken his pledged timetable for withdraw from Iraq. So what's up with the delay in his promise to close Gitmo on Day One?

Interestingly, Gallup released a survey of American public opinion today that shows 35% are in favor of closing Gitmo, 45% opposed to closing Gitmo, 20% undecided.

Surely we don't have an American President letting mundane political issues preventing him from making any change!