themoderatevoice.com - 11/26/2008
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The clearly leaked news that Bush administration Secretary of Defense will likely stay on in the same post in President Barack Obama’s administration is yet one more sign that the incoming Obama administration will be centrist and will put a high premium on bipartisan cooperation.
Just ...
commentarymagazine.com - 11/26/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
According to the latest news reports, President-elect Obama
will nominate a national security team next week that
is stunning in its moderation. The headliners–Bob Gates staying at Defense, Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, retired ...
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Obama’s Picks
thewashingtonnote.com - 11/26/2008
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thewashingtonnote.com —
Bob Gates is keeping his Pentagon perch (which
has been quite clear for some time). I had
moved close to the view that Gates should go. My thinking at the time was that Gates played a vital role "Out-Cheneying Cheney" in the last couple of ...
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Robert Gates: Should He Have Stayed?
mudvillegazette.com - 11/26/2008
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mudvillegazette.com —
First, your U.S. history trivia for the day:
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War throughout World War
Two under Democrat Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was a Republican. ***** And now back to the news. If the rumors are true, then Politico ...
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Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
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... Gates. Whatever. It’s “official” now. Sort of. Robert Gates must be happy to announce the Obama admin is joining him in the fight. When you crave inertia in policy, inertia is what you get. What is in motion stays in motion, what is in place stays in place. Certain rules apply in politics as much as physics. Change in policy again is sacrificed on the altar of bipartisanship politics.
Equal and opposite reactions! Yay! Now everybody chant “pragmatic!” and “realist!” on cue ...
Gates
Belmont Club —
... was predictably livid. “Should Barack Obama choose to retain Robert Gates, if only for a year, he will telegraph a victory of the bankrupt status quo in the far-reaching and foremost area of Defense. Having already appointed two Tenet alums, John Brennan and Jami Miscik , President-Elect Obama needs to show as much certitude with Defense as he is doing with Treasury.” The Moderate Voice makes a virtue of the disappointment of the far left wing of the Democratic Party, describing the Gates choice as evidence that Obama will chart a “centrist” course — “a signal again of how ...
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