{"id":9194,"date":"2011-12-15T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2011-12-15T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T13:27:22","slug":"americans-face-guantanamo-detention-after-obama-climbdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/15\/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-after-obama-climbdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans face Guant\u00e1namo detention after Obama climbdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>UK Guardian<\/em> article <a title=\"UK Guardian story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/15\/americans-face-guantanamo-detention-obama\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Americans face Guant\u00e1namo detention after Obama climbdown<\/strong><\/a>, does say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But on Wednesday the White House said Obama had lifted the threat of a veto after changes to the law giving the president greater discretion to prevent individuals from being handed to the military.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accused the president of caving in again to pressure from some Republicans on a counter-terrorism issue for fear of being painted in next year&#8217;s election campaign as weak and of failing to defend America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this version of the story is a little overwrought or not.\u00a0 You can read <em>The Raw Story<\/em> article <a title=\"The Raw Story article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/12\/14\/white-house-will-not-veto-national-defense-authorization-act\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama will not veto National Defense Authorization Act<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes time to vote for President in 2012, I don&#8217;t know how I am going to be able to vote for Obama.\u00a0 In the last election, I used the threat of not voting for him as a way to nudge him in a different policy direction.\u00a0 Now that he has an established record, there is no nudge room left.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if I could sleep at night if I were to cast a vote for him again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Guardian article Americans face Guant\u00e1namo detention after Obama climbdown, does say: But on Wednesday the White House said Obama had lifted the threat of a veto after changes to the law giving the president greater discretion to prevent individuals from being handed to the military. Critics accused the president of caving in again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9195,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions\/9195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}