at the awesome michigan politics site at collect-a-blog. and they showed the audience at the grace bible chapel in detroit, as senator rand paul hosted as what was billed as a celebration of the opening of the republican party s african-american engagement office in detroit. if you were trying to attract black voters to the republican party, it is a mysterious decision to pick the guy who could not say he supported the civil rights act, the guy who hired the masked confederate southern avenger guy as his staffer and to cowrite his book. it would be hard to imagine a worse person to choose in 2013 to roll out the welcome mat to black voters. but if you do, choose that guy to try to attract black voters. this is apparently what you get for turnout. that is true. okay. next up, true or false. although president obama wants to close guantanamo and put the prisoners there on trial or send them home, congress is blocking that from happening. is that true or is that false? false, kind of.