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crooksandliars.com - 11/27/2008
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Thanks to Faiz at Think Progress for the vid. Following the S.O.P. of making the leak the story, the Obama transition team has now unofficially officially announced the headliners for national security and foreign policy roles. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; ...
slate.com - 11/27/2008
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slate.com —
Robert Gates. Click image to expand. Robert Gates
If the reports are true that Robert Gates will...
stay on as President Obama's defense secretary, the move is a stroke of brilliance—politically and substantively. In his nearly two years at the helm of ...
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Keeping Robert Gates as secretary of defense is a great ...
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?
talkleft.com - 11/26/2008
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talkleft.com —
Reports say : Defense Secretary Robert Gates has
agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according...
to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early next week that includes Gates at the Pentagon and ...
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Report: Gates To Stay At Defense
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Gates is fine, Hillary not-so-much
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Bob Gates is a good soldier, but that Clinton woman, well....
Clinton, if anything, is more problematic than Gates and potentially the most trouble of all simply because there's little doubt that Gates knows how to subordinate himself to his President's overall direction while still keeping his own end of policy debates respectfully strenuous. Hillary...well, we'll see.
She's a threat to... what?
Tear her party apart? Give the pres the Vince Foster/RFK treatment? Periodically when she’s feeling down, launches nuclear attacks ...
Related: "the republican national committee has continued to put out critical statements"
