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Rove's prediction
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Speaking to students at Miami University, Karl Rove—who has thought a bit about the politics of national security —predicts: ...

Rove Sets Up Obama on Gitmo
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... According to the Miami Hurricane, Rove made a prediction: "One year from now, Gitmo won't be closed. If it is, there will be an uproar in the U.S. about where to put these people." ...

links for 2009-01-26
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: web2.0 internet Google Technology) ‘Campaign architect’ Karl Rove speaks to students  - Obama Won't Close GITMO Karl Rove, one-time Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, spoke to a ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — ... that mantle?" Step one for getting around earmark ban: Just stop calling them earmarks. So many reasons to like Kirsten Gillibrand, not least of which is that Maureen Dowd hates her. Even McCain's not backing Obama's proposed stimulus. Give 'em hell, Mav! Other moderate Republicans stay mute, signaling a GOP consensus that a "yes" vote might not be good policy or good politics for 2010. Karl does the campus circuit, facing women's studies majors and conspiracy theorists without fear. ...

Rove Leaves Miami Students in Tears
JammieWearingFool — No, it's not what you think. He didn't come in and play the Evil Rove as personified by the left all these years. He gave a heartfelt speech that touched a nerve with many of the students on hand at the University of Miami . Except, of course, for one O-bot who got all up in his face. A sore winner, so to speak. Karl Rove, one-time deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, spoke to a jam-packed Storer Auditorium at the University of Miami Thursday afternoon. After a brief opening speech, Rove transformed the event into an open forum during which audience members ...

Reporting Karl Rove: U of Miami J-School Student Gets It Right
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Whatever the reason, her recent article about Karl Rove's visit to the University of Miami was surprisingly fair and quoted students who were quite impressed by the erstwhile Evil Genius. ...

Rove: ‘One year from now, Gitmo won’t be closed.’
Think Progress — In a recent speech at the University of Miami, Karl Rove expressed his pessimism that President Obama will be able to carry through on his pledge to close Guantanamo: “One year from now, Gitmo won’t be closed…. If it is, there will be an uproar in the U.S. about where to put these people.” Indeed, it will be very difficult to close Guantanamo, made harder in fact by the incompetence of the Bush administration. This weekend, the Washington Post reported that the administration’s plans to “quickly close the ...

Not In My Backyard: The GOPers Complicating Obama's Gitmo Closure
TPM Election Central — Republicans have already settled on a five-letter messaging counter-attack to President Obama's plan to shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year: NIMBY. Within the past few days, John McCain and Karl Rove have helped reinforce the perception that Guantanamo detainees could not be moved to U.S. soil without a popular backlash. As McCain told Fox News yesterday: Where are you going to send [the detainees]? That decision I would have made before I'd announced the closure, because I don't know of a state in America that wants them in ...

Rove's prediction
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... The POLITICO article links to University of Miami student newspaper The Miami Hurricane where Rove is reported to also have said "interrogation tactics used by the CIA during Bush’s term in office were not torturous" and “You bet we squeeze them for information,”. The Miami Hurricane article is here: http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2009/01/24/campaign-ar...

NIMBY
Political Animal — ... ." Karl Rove argued over the weekend that Obama will change his mind about Gitmo because " there will be an uproar in the U.S. " about detaining suspects on American soil. John McCain told Fox News yesterday, "I don't know of a state in America that wants them in their state. You think Yucca Mountain is a NIMBY problem? Wait till you see this one." ...

Running On Gitmo
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Rove: "One year from now, Gitmo won't be closed. If it is, there will be an uproar in the U.S. about where to put these people." Rove planned to run the 2006 campaign on torture. It's the natural reflex of an authoritarian Dolchstoss party. But the polls suggest that, once again, Rove has misjudged the times. ...

Poll Watch: Obama’s Decision to Close GITMO Met With Mixed Reviews by American Voters
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... rights of U.S. citizens. Only 16% disagree, and 15% are not sure. Just 26% say the suspected terrorists should be tried in U.S. courts. Fifty-nine percent (59%) support the Bush Administration position that they should be tried by military tribunals. Sixteen percent (16%) are undecided. Again, the responses to both these questions are almost identical to those in a survey last July. Looks like Karl Rove’s comments the other day are not too far off the mark. The “campaign architect,” as he is commonly ...