I guess anything goes in Washington these days, such that you can stand on promises and broken promises as examples of how awesome you are, because Joe Biden does just that with the broken promise to close GITMO:
Part of building that moral foundation is the commitment we made to end torture and to close Guantanamo. We must not only lead by the power of our example, we must lead by the example of our power as well.
That last part sounds like mumbo jumbo, like they are trying to sound clever but failing.