New Poll: Americans Like Guantanamo

This is kind of depressing. 
After four and a half months, Americans have thrown in the towel, according to the latest polls here and here.
What an impatient and fickle nation.
In this video, Janet Napolitano talks about the closing of Gitmo, while the rolling ticker reflects that most people are in favor keeping Gitmo open and many are in favor of waterboarding. I don't understand how people think it's okay that for 7 years people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay without any rights.  

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Since Americans have already folded, Republicans see an opening. Chuck Todd says Obama's presidency rests on GM. He assumes that most Americans are ignorant and don't know much about AIG and banking (he may be right), but they do know GM, so that's what they're watching. 

Media Poll Declares Obama Honeymoon Over

Whatever.
To those who are pushing back against Obama already I'd say this: Obama took office Jan. 20. He's been in office 4.5 months. Give it rest. Be patient and consider this, John McCain and Sarah Palin could be the leaders of our country. We could be at war with Iran and there wouldn't even be the opportunity for an uprising in Iran.
North Korea? I shudder to think of how that would've been handled by McCain.
Palin would be making one embarrassing move after the next. She'd be relegated to a back office somewhere to work on a book. There wouldn't even be the hope of healthcare reform.
Financial reforms? Ha! Gay rights? Ha!
All of the bigots would've felt validated.
Here's what else--we would've missed the lovely and smart Michelle Obama as First Lady. No White House garden, no beehive.
We could be far worse off. I've just scratched the surface.
We could be in a depression, if not for the moves made by the Obama administration. So ease up. Give it a chance.

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