If you want more evidence that Barack Obama was a bit wet behind the ears and inexperienced before assuming the presidency, look no further than the ongoing Guantanamo prison debacle. His campaign pledge to shut down Guantanamo Bay and replace it within a year was a shocking display of naivete about the complexities of our national security apparatus and the grave concerns involved in the war on terror. White House counsel Greg Craig was recently forced to step down over charges that he botched the Gitmo closing, though the conventional wisdom isn’t that Craig did anything wrong so much as the White House needed another speedbump for the executive bus that’s careening out of control. Well, they don’t have Greg Craig to kick around anymore, and now it looks like Guantanmo still won’t be closed until well into 2011:

Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.