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Barack Obama - Bring the Best of the Last Two Presidents?
The Sundries Shack —
It looks like P-E Obama will ask Secretary of Defense Gates to stay on in the new administration. Add him to Hillary Clinton at State and General James Jones as the National Security Adviser, and the Administration of Change looks a whole lot like it’s going to have the foreign policy of George W. Bush. I expect the anguished cries from the anti-war left to rise unto Heaven sometime before midnight and continue well into the next couple of years. In all, the Hope and Change Express is shaping up a lot better than I could have expected. The mob of Clintonistas heading into the ...
Gates As Obama Defense Chief: Another Centrist Obama Administration Sign
The Moderate Voice —
... him would fulfill, at least partially, an Obama pledge to construct a bipartisan administration.
Such a move, if confirmed, could also incite the Democratic left, which had based much of its support on Obama’s slowly melting pledge to withdraw American combat troops within 16 months and start immediately.
Gates has been a loyal steward of the surge, which during the political season Obama long appeared reluctant to admit was a success.
–The Washington Post offers some interesting in details about how this might work, and about ...
Early Morning Swim: Special Hamsher On Maddow Edition
Firedoglake —
... Gates to stay at Defense.
Volcker to head economic recovery board.
Dobson starts a jihad against Parker.
Minn. recount heating up.
Palin to campaign for Chambliss.
Barbara Bush rushed to the hospital.
Mmmmm, shitpile.
DC Physics
N/A —
... Right on. And on Robert Gates will be “providing the new president with a Republican presence in his cabinet and a familiar face to lead troops during two ongoing wars.” ...
Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif: Top Intelligence Picks a No-Win for Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama's presumptive top contender for an intelligence leadership post exited the stage last week. John Brennan--CIA veteran, leader of an influential intelligence contractor industry association, and top national security advisor to the Obama campaign-- abruptly removed himself from consideration last Tuesday, citing mounting criticism over his role in Bush-era intelligence abuses. Various ...
