{"id":11524,"date":"2017-01-25T23:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/23\/obama-i-totally-wouldve-closed-gitmo-but-meanies-in-congress-wouldnt-let-me\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:38:26","slug":"obama-i-totally-wouldaeve-closed-gitmo-but-meanies-in-congress-wouldnaet-letme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/11524","title":{"rendered":"Obama: I totally would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve closed Gitmo, but meanies in Congress wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let&nbsp;me"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/337641316336939009\n<p>This afternoon, we learned the real reason that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is still open, more than five years after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/24\/AR2007062401046.html\">then-candidate Obama pledged his commitment to closing it<\/a>: it’s Congress’ fault.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/markknoller\/status\/337641602216513537\n<p>It’s all politics! Obama’s ineptitude and habit of making promises he knows he can’t or won’t keep have nothing to do with it!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/337656245211250688\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CuffyMeh\/status\/337641326248071169\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Doc_0\/status\/337641607790747648\n<p>Right?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ChrisBarnhart\/status\/337641694092750848<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/23\/obama-i-totally-wouldve-closed-gitmo-but-meanies-in-congress-wouldnt-let-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/23\/obama-i-totally-wouldve-closed-gitmo-but-meanies-in-congress-wouldnt-let-me\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/redsteeze\/status\/337641316336939009 This afternoon, we learned the real reason that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is still open, more than five years after then-candidate Obama pledged his commitment to closing it: it’s Congress’ fault. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/markknoller\/status\/337641602216513537 It’s all politics! Obama’s ineptitude and habit of making promises he knows he can’t or won’t keep have nothing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/11524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama: I totally would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve closed Gitmo, but meanies in Congress wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let&nbsp;me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14853623122511-crying-baby.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}