talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/26/2008
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Keeping Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense was the most dramatic signal Barack Obama could have sent that he intends to implement major changes in defense policy. That may sound counterintuitive, but it has the virtue of being true. As...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
By Michael D. Shear and Ann Scott Tyson
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates is expected to
stay on at the Pentagon for at least a year after Barack Obama takes office, providing the new president with a Republican presence in his cabinet and a ...
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Gates Expected to Remain at Defense
mudvillegazette.com - 11/26/2008
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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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The Radicalism Of Gates
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Yoni Applebaum explains: Keeping Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense was the most dramatic signal
Barack Obama could have sent that he intends to implement major changes
in defense policy. That may sound counterintuitive, but it has the
virtue of being true. As Josh noted this morning, "cabinet appointees execute policy. They
work for the president." So if Gates is tasked to take us out of Iraq
and to redouble our efforts in Afghanistan, we can expect him to carry
out both tasks with the same degree of competence he's ...
Gates Reax: The Thoughtless and The Thoughtful
The Moderate Voice —
... That comment succinctly echoes longer, and purportedly more serious, reactions from across the leftosphere. Thankfully, some left-leaning commentators are more grounded, including Yoni Applebaum at TPMCafé: ...
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swamppolitics.com 11/26/2008 — by Frank James
It's being widely reported that President-elect Barack Obama has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on at the Pentagon and that Gates has agreed.
The move would maintain continuity at the Pentagon at a critical time ...
More Change: Gates to Stay On At Pentagon
stoptheaclu.com 11/26/2008 — I've been giving Obama a hard time on his administration picks being Clintonites, lobbyists, and everything but the change his mantra promised. I'm not gonna do that on this one. I think it is a smart move to keep Gates on. We are on the verge of ...
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Seeking experience in wartime, President-elect Barack Obama intends to re-enlist Defense Secretary Robert Gates as head of the Pentagon — if only temporarily — and has chosen a retired Marine general to be White House national security adviser, ...
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