Obama Still Has No Plan to Close Guantanamo

President Obama defended his non-existent plan to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainee facility today, blaming the latest political quandary on the Bush Administration.

The President described the matter as the 'toughest' issue the Nation would face.

"There are no neat or easy answers here," Obama said in a speech in which he pledged anew to clean up what he said was "quite simply a mess" at Guantanamo that he had inherited from the Bush administration.

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"I want to be honest: This is the toughest issue we will face," Obama said.

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A couple of brief reactions.

First, the President walks a fine line by blaming every problem in these United States on the Bush Administration. President Bush is no longer President - Barack Obama is. At what point will President Obama finally transition from candidate Obama, and claim the problems our country faces as his own? Under President Truman, Democrat's once had a fine tradition of buck-stopping, but in the Obama White House the buck apparently stops in Crawford, TX.

Further, with the latest federal bailouts leading only to delayed bankruptcy for Detroit, and with the President doubling our National deficit in his first 100 days, how long until the public recognizes that it is President Obama's policies that have contributed most o the "mess?"

Second, closing Gitmo is, unequivocally, NOT the toughest issue we will face. Closing Gitmo is a political pet-project that not even House and Senate Democrats have been willing to support. In fact, not even the President's officials have been fully on board. The President calls this fear-mongering. Others might call it 'prudent' to have a plan before acting.

After defending his decision, President Obama once again offered no plan for closing the facility.