In one of his first acts as President, Obama has asked military tribunals preparing to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other 9/11 conspirators, as well as Omar Khadr, to suspend proceedings for 120 days so he can "review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically." The request was passed through Secretary of Defense Gates.

Such a request may not be automatically granted by military judges, and not all defense attorneys may agree to such a suspension. But the move is a first step toward closing a detention facility and system of military trials that became a worldwide symbol of the Bush administration's war on terrorism and its unyielding attitude toward foreign and domestic critics.

The legal maneuver appears designed to provide the Obama administration time to refashion the prosecution system and potentially treat detainees as criminal defendants in federal court or have them face war-crimes charges in military courts-martial. It is also possible that the administration could re-form and relocate the military commissions before resuming trials.

Delay and late prosecution is one of the due process violations which have been alleged against the military commissions, especially by the N.Y. Times, the ACLU, and many Democratic congressfolk. Somehow I doubt they'll oppose this, since they all think that Obama is going to let these terrorists off the hook.

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Now that Obamanaguration Day is over (and we can make up names like the Left did over the last eight yearsÂ…for the moment), itÂ’s time we settled in for our first fireside chat. So as we go quietly into the night, imagine that you are He, which is Blasphemy, I know, but in your own words, channel the spirit of the Obamicorn and deliver us some hope nÂ’ change in the hope-ish change-oriented comment area below. If you know whatÂ’s good fer ya.Â’

Oh, and please make liberal use of all the shimmering rainbow of text colors He has provided you in the thread.

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Highly classified government sources close to the Jawa Report have told us that Ace is one of the first, if not the first, conservative blogger to be carted off to the re-education camps springing up all over the nation.

It sure sucks to be you Ace! I think calling Michelle Obama "The Gilded Sasquatch" was the final straw.

As for the rest of you, be more careful. more...

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Even the greatest nation on Earth makes the occasional mistake.

Well played America. Well played indeed.

Thus ends Day 1 of the Age of Obama.

Talk amongst yourselves until tomorrow, the first full day of the New Times. No doubt it will be a magical day filled with rainbows.

That reminds me, it has been almost 12 hours since He took over and I still don't have my unicorn and no money has appeared in my bank account. Are there forms I need to fill out or something?

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Leave your note here.

I found this at LGF who says the organizers will be delivering the comments to the President at his library on 9/11/11 (which I'm guessing is the dedication/opening date).

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It won't amount to much. But it will surely piss them off.

That's what the "loyal opposition" does now. We piss people off. It's our job.

WASHINGTON – The confirmation of Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of state will be held up for at least a day due to the objection of a single senator. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he wanted "a full and open debate and an up-or-down vote on Sen. Clinton's nomination."

"possible conflicts of interest" is an expression I thought I actually understood. But it seems to mean "that elephant in the room, that pink one, over there shitting on your sofa. It's a happy unicorn pootin rainbows and skittles".

She won't pass the Schultz test.

Slightly OT cause I'm catching up on the naa naa naa-shit. I'm reminded of Davy Crockett for some stupid reason. "You can all go to hell, and I will go to Texas".

Well they can all kiss my big white Texas ass.

I mean that with love.

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Bless You, O Obama, My Lord; for while we just experience the worst Inauguration Day sell-off in history, God Himself hath decreed the bar shall be lowered for you, lower than the deepest chasms of the darkest Seas; and whilst the Dow did fall, we are Greatly Thankful that it did not fall further, by your kindness and grace.

Amen.

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Earlier somebody in the comments pointed out the new White House website was redesigned to celebrate America glorify the jackass who was just sworn in. Turns out it also now takes several swipes at former President Bush.

Under the “agenda” portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”

“President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina,” the statement on the site continues. “Citing the Bush Administration’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.”

Hey Obama...fuck you and your fellow travelers.

Yeah, the honeymoon is over.

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Eggs pelting the presidential limo, he had to cancel the walk to the White House.

So for those who aren't happy with my snarking on Michelle "Gilded Sasquatch" Obama -- have some perspective.

I'm not saying she looks enormous, forbidding, and medieval. I'm just saying Mrs. Witch-King of Angmar almost wore the same thing.

I don't know who wrote this, but it's funny:

She doesn't need a purse. She needs endtables.

Yeah, I'm not saying she looks like some enormous piece of ungainly furniture, but whenever I'm in the same room with her, I simply must know how she looks opposite the divan.

She first wore that dress in her only Hollywood acting job, when she played The Vault in Kelley's Heroes.

Bookend: You just saw how the left greeted Bush. Here's how they said goodbye:

So, I know there are a lot of readers (not just trolls) who think we, collectively, should be above this, but most conservatives are in fact bending over backwards with politeness. I'm not in the fucking mood. And besides, there is room for at least some nasty carping.

No matter what I say, it's not equal to pelting Bush's limo with eggs and forcing him to cancel the walk he (and his supporters) deserved due to threats of rioting.

More: Others are weighing in. I just got this email.

I think she looked quite fetching. Let me be the first to say, "I would definitely hit that."

That's from Big Brown, winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby. (Joke suggested by Crusty.)

Cuffy Meigs disagrees:

She's wearing more gold foil than the Apollo Moon Lander.

She looked like a chick Aslan from Narnia used to date, before she got heavy.

She looks like Snuffalupagus' cousin, Muffalupagus, auditioning for a part in The Wiz.

She looks like the Solid Gold Dancers. No, I mean all of them.

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