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thenewgreen · 3797 days ago · link · · parent · post: Esperanza Spalding: Guantanamo Doesn't Represent 'Our America'
I actually liked the song and thought it was well executed until she asks congress to "support the president" and close gitmo. That's a bunch of crap. If closing Guantanamo was something the president wanted to do, he could. He's not interested in the blow-back. He promised that he would close Guantanamo within his first term, in fact I think he may have promised he'd do it in his first year. Well...? What happened Mr. President? Our president lacks the conviction and our congress certainly isn't going to make it easy on him even if he did have the desire. I'm tired of people apologizing for Obama though. But yes, close gitmo. Good song, good message, it is a national embarrassment.