And then under his administration there was the trial of Omar Khadr. Khadr is a Canadian who was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan and brought to Guantanamo Bay, tortured and held until this year, when he was sentenced to 40 years in prison, because he apparently killed an American soldier, and because he confessed, even though the confession had been taken under the torture. They convicted a soldier for killing another soldier on the field of combat. And he was a child.

These are not progressive measures.

Bush was already under pressure from the Army to return to the previous standards, but Obama has not articulated a clear and government wide "no-torture" policy; nor has he brought the US into compliance with it's obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

And "trying to close Guantanamo"? Please. Do or do not, there is no try.

There is a difference between words and actions.

Right, which is why they're executive orders :)

Guantanamo is in a half-state because Congress invoked NIMBY with the attempts to prosecute detainees in the US. No other country wants to take them in.