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Barack Obama … hawk?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Barack Obama derived energy from the anti-war Left of MoveOn and Code Pink, criticizing the Iraq War and defending his inexperience as secondary to the poor judgment shown by those who voted to authorize it. The issue dropped off the radar screen in the general election due to the financial crisis and the success of the surge in Iraq. Now, however, the same hard-Left supporters who boosted Obama over early favorite Hillary Clinton for the nomination wonder whether Obama may be a hawk in sheep’s clothing : Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned ...
Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
Flopping Aces —
... 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 for top security posts backed the decision to go to war.
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My first reaction was BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Then I ...
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
The Reaction —
... I've been noticing a disturbing trend arising on the left, practically ever since Barack Obama received the nomination of the Democratic party: ...
Obama: Giving Raspberry to Progressives With Cabinet/Staff Picks?
Stop The ACLU —
... … President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts. The L.A. Times also chimes in with a piece headlined “ Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet .” So, amusingly enough, the far left’s eyebrows are being raised everywhere. I won’t pretend to say what Obama’s picks “mean” at this point. But, for now let me revel in the fact that many on the far left are beginning to feel like they’ve been sold a bill of goods. That they’ve emptied their pocketbooks on ...
11/21: King Henry
Blogometer —
... : "Well, isn't this a hoot? As Barack Obama appears to be appointing less than totally pro-surrender officials to his inner circle, far leftists are feeling constrained in their criticism by Obama Mania. 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"). Richter's hawkish characterization of the likes of Richard Holbrooke , Hillary Clinton, ...
