OBAMA SHOOTS THE ALBATROSS!

Just as in the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Obama has shot the albatross and it will be a curse upon the Democrats for 2010 and into the 2012 election.

The albatross is a bird of the sea that is accustomed to following sailing ships. Sailors consider them good luck. In the poem, the Mariner shoots the albatross with a cross bow and kills it. The sailors fearing a curse upon them force the mariner to wear the albatross around his neck in hopes of warding off a curse of impending disaster. It fails and they are doomed. They all perish at sea, all except the Mariner.

President Obama's decision to move the trial of captured terrorist suspects, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to civil court will become the albatross around his neck and will spell disaster for him and his Democratic Party. By granting the defendants the right to trial by jury in civil court he has afforded them all the rights and privileges of an American citizen. He is treating enemy combatants, war criminals to be more exact, that were caught on the field of battle, as law breaking individuals, deserving of due process of the law and their day in court. The logistics and preparation for such a trial alone are ridiculous when you consider they are already in a very secure prison at Guantanamo with a military court facility in place to proceed with a full military tribunal. Instead we bring them back to New York in some liberal, symbolic gesture to be tried. All so the ACLU and the liberal left can have their politically correct, televised court trial. Before this ill concived show is over they will be putting America on trial and giving terrorists a platform to spew their hatred of infidels across the airwaves. It is totally unnecessary and places a burden on the civilian court system along with additional work loads to those providing safety and security, not to mention the risks involving national security. This will go down as one of the most monumental Presidential blunders in history and just as the Mariner had to watch as each of his shipmates died, so to will Obama watch as his majority in Congress dwindles in 2010.

Obama speaks of the twisted logic ingrained in the Muslims that carry out these acts, (he won't call them terrorists), and yet this decision is a prime example of twisted logic...his own!
He has managed to take the most devastating attack on American soil in recent times and turn it into a political circus. Welcome the new Barnum and Bailey of our time, Obama and Holder. Sadly this trial will linger in the spotlight for years, making closure impossible, bringing more heartbreak and sorrow to those who lost loved ones in the attacks. As for the Democrats, the public will remember who brought the circus to town.

Eventually the Mariner and his ship were engulfed by a huge whirlpool and the ship was lost. As for the Mariner and his fate? He alone was the lone survivor and it was he who was responsible for the deaths of so many when he shot the albatross. His curse was to spend the rest of his life wandering the land telling his sad tale of woe, and so it will be for Obama by the end of 2012. He will wander, telling his tale of woe, how he was cheated of greatness, and just like any hardened liberal, try to invoke compassion and tears among his listeners...then blame it all on conservatives.

Edisto Joe

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