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Newspaper Roundup for Nov. 20, 2008
CNSNews.com Headlines — ... CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Nov. 20, 2008 Thursday, November 20, 2008 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor Los Angeles Times: Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet Boston Globe: ...

Morning Roundup: Around the Web Chanting with the Hunger
The Latest on Air America — ... over at Daily Kos has the 25 most important stories that the media isn't reporting via Project Censored. Just to keep us on our toes, give us a reason to worry that maybe a little war with a nuke-having country might allow W to stay in office past his expiration date, we attacked Pakistan. Did you miss Colbert's take on the Clinton vetting process? We got it right here. The Los Angeles Times reports that antiwar groups fear a hawkish Obama administration. And here's Alternet on subject the same. ...

ThinkFast: November 20, 2008
Think Progress — ... Antiwar groups “are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated” by hawkish appointees who favored the Iraq war. “Obama ran his campaign around the idea the war was not legitimate, but it sends a very different message when you bring in people who supported the war from the beginning,” said Iraq Veterans Against the War Executive Director Kelly Dougherty. ...

Transition News 11/20
The Stump — ... Antiwar activists fear a hawkish Obama cabinet. ...

LAT Writer: Obama Defense Picks are 'Centrists'; Peace Activist: 'Can't Directly Criticize' Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... A Los Angeles Times article by Paul Richter with an amusing title ("Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet") notes that Obama has appointed or is considering many people who originally supported the war in Iraq (this apparently automatically makes them "hawks"). ...

Obama Supporters Finding It Hard To Criticize Obama After The Elevated Him To Messiah Status
Say Anything — ... Now that Obama is populating his administration with Clinton retreads and perceived centrists the far-left activists who worked slavishly for his campaign are starting to wonder where all their hope ‘n change is.  And they’d criticize Obama more, but they’re finding it hard to now that they’ve elevated him to messiah status. ...

Shock of the Day
N/A — ... Shock of the day or week or month or year? Obama is moving to the right to the center.  Clinton, Gates, who else will Obama embrace in the bipartisan backaway from his most ardent supporters? ...

Video: Michelle vs. InstaGlenn on Conservatism 2.0
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... around 6:30, when the boss lays into Huckabee for his anti-Romney populist demagoguery, and again at 12:30, when she celebrates unburdening ourselves of the squishiness that is Maverick. The money question at 13:45: Should conservative bloggers follow the Yearly Kos model and start organizing conferences? To which I say: What for? Has Yearly Kos accomplished anything aside from having the Democratic candidates show up, pay lip service, and then hilariously ignore their most cherished causes and ...

Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — ... Los Angeles Times - Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet. Activists note that most of the candidates for top security posts voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq or otherwise supported launching the war. ...

HEH: Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet.  ”Antiwar groups and other libe…
Instapundit — ... HEH: Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet.  ”Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.” ...

Mirth Redoubled
Daily Pundit — Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet - Los Angeles Times “There’s so much Obama hero worship, we’re having to walk this line where we can’t directly criticize him,” he said. “But we are expressing concern.” These morons built him up into the Messiah, the Lightbringer, and they did such a good job that when he drops trou and dumps all over them, they can’t say a word in protest. After all, the Messiah, by definition, is always right and perfect. No matter what. ...

The Honeymoon Is Not Quite Over . . .
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... But while Barack Obama still has a lot of affection among antiwar types who saw him as a champion of their interests, that affection seems to be waning somewhat: ...

Links for 2008-11-20 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... incumbent was unable to win 50 plus one percent of the vote on Nov. 4. Martin clearly benefited from Obama's presence at the top of the ticket -- particularly in the black community -- and Democrats eyeing a 60-seat filibuster proof majority believe an Obama appearance may be the only way Martin can come close to re-creating the sort of base turnout he needs to beat Chambliss next month. +++++++++ It may be a risk of political capital that Obama does not wish to make. Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet - Los Angeles Times Antiwar ...

The Honeymoon Is Not Quite Over . . .
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — But while Barack Obama still has a lot of affection among antiwar types who saw him as a champion of their interests, that affection seems to be waning somewhat : Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues. The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at ...

links for 2008-11-21
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: gaymarriage) Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet - Los Angeles Times Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be ...

Get ready to change the name to CryVAW...
Mudville Gazette — As the panties begin inevitable twist: Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues. The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates ...

Obama is a neo-neocon
neo-neocon — Not really, or course. But more than his followers expected. His antiwar supporters don’t understand it, nor do they like it. But they can’t say he didn’t warn them: I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them. Let the disappointment begin!