Obama delivers Annapolis speech, diplomas -- and a chest-bump

As The Ticket reported here earlier today, complete with full text, President Obama delivered his final commencement address of this graduation season today at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

One exuberant brand-new officer opened his arms for a good-natured chest-bump, like on the basketball court. And the president reciprocated.

Do you think this shot will go in the new graduate's family scrapbook?

After delivering tons of new military weapons to the present government in Lebanon, Vice President Joe Biden has the weekend off before giving the graduation address next Wednesday in Colorado Springs at the Air Force Academy.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photo: Rob Carr / Associated Press

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[Pom Pom Girl]

Want Terrorists On TV? Close Gitmo.

While there are many arguments against moving the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay to prisons on US soil, from cost to security, would the media access to these prisoners change as well? Would the answer to that question change if they were in a US military prison (Leavenworth) or instead in a Federal Prison?
Until we have answers to those questions we should reconsider closing Gitmo. Can you imagine 60 minutes or others spending hours interviewing the detainees, broadcasting their one sided "horror" stories as well as their pleas of innocence or boasts of terror to the world? Wouldn't preventing that single propaganda potential for the detainees be the silver bullet reason that any reasonably prudent Commander In Chief would not allow them on US soil.

If media access, let alone public court trials reported on by the media circus provide the terrorists with a platform for propaganda won't every American regret anyone's decision to close Gitmo?