blog.foreignpolicy.com - 11/10/2008
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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has indicated that he wants to appoint Republicans to his cabinet, and rumor has it negotiations are underway to keep current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in office past January 20. But would Gates really count as a bipartisan pick if he's technically not a ...
time.com - 11/17/2008
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time.com —
Missile-defense skeptics yearning for a fresh look at
the wisdom of pumping $10 billion annually into missile...
defense aren't going to get it from Barack Obama when he moves into the Oval Office. The Russians along with the two men most likely to ...
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Why Obama Will Continue Star Wars
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 11/12/2008
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digbysblog.blogspot.com —
Monday, November 10, 2008 Change by digby Podesta
also said Obama is working to build a diverse...
Cabinet. That includes reaching out to Republicans and independents — part of the broad coalition that supported Obama during the race against Republican ...
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Hullabaloo
democracyarsenal.org - 11/17/2008
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democracyarsenal.org —
Prompted by Matt Eckel over at Foreign Policy
Watch, I thought I'd offer thoughts on what looms...
on the nuclear weapons policy agenda. Matt uses a recent speech by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Foreign Affairs article by Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal ...
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What To Do About Nukes
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Keeping Gates?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Harry Reid: I am confident that Senator Obama has somebody in mind for secretary of defense but Gates -- you know, it's interesting, my conversation with Secretary Gates, he's not even a Republican. Why wouldn't we want to keep him? He's never been a registered Republican. Hmmm. ...
Gates Keeper
Weekly Standard Blog —
... There’s almost no one who would object to keeping Gates at the helm. As Harry Reid approvingly noted, Gates isn’t even a registered Republican. The usual suspects will whine about how this isn't the change they were promised, or that keeping Gates furthers the perception that Democrats are soft on defense -- in this case too soft for even Obama to find one up to the task of secretary -- but that's all background noise. ...
Karl Rove tells them: This is continuity, not change.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... bill of goods, but
68,588,471 American voters, most still alive and voting only once,
were sold the campaign schtick – hopeCHANGEhope – and now they're
learning about it from Karl Rove. On their home turf, NBC's
Today program,
Karl Rove reviews their messiah's national security &
foreign policy team and tells them this:
The team represents, to a substantial degree, continuity.
Ouch. Continuity = More of the Same. (Gates, btw, is not a
Republican.)
(There's more beyond the vid.)
The AP
tells ...
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