talkleft.com - 11/26/2008
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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 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as ...
commentarymagazine.com - 11/26/2008
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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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Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
Mudville Gazette —
... on national security, as he would be the second consecutive non-Democratic Secretary of Defense nominated by a Democratic President. The message would be clear: even Democrats agree that Democrats can't run the military.Actually, if your first response to "defense" is "budget", then you shouldn't even bother to involve yourself in discussions of the military. (At least not the Executive branch aspect thereof - Congress determines that budget.)
Talk Left: Unlike a lot of folks, I respect Bush 41ers like Gates. My ...
Meet the New Boss …
Opinionator —
... have a Reapolitiker, rather than a liberal, bent, although Clinton and Steinberg at State should be powerful voices for “neo-liberalism” which is not so different in many respects from “neo-conservativism”. Both, for instance, support humanitarian interventions in places like Darfur and Bosnia. Combined with the moderation of the economic team that Obama has just named, I would say his administration already far exceeds expectations, and he hasn’t even taken office yet. At TalkLeft, Big Tent Democrat is a bit worried by the symbolism : ” My one problem with this is that it ...
Gates
Belmont Club —
... on Iraq for the third time altering “a campaign-era demand that the U.S. Congress ‘must approve’ it [SOFA] to a simple acknowledgment that Congress ’should review’ the agreement.” That’s his third major shift in Iraq policy, by the way. The first was ‘clarifying’ that “immediately begin withdrawal/16 months” bit last July, the second was quietly dropping the call to eliminate “security contractors” (probably in light of reality) - and I give him much credit for those choices, too. TalkLeft is undismayed, noting that not everything about Bush was bad. “Unlike a lot of folks, I ...
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swamppolitics.com 11/26/2008 — by Frank James
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com 11/11/2008 —
From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski In 10 weeks, Obama will be sworn in as president, the Bush Administration comes to an inglorious end, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates could finally retire to his home overlooking Big Lake in Washington State. ...
Times: Gates to Stay at Defense
dailykos.com 11/26/2008 — Peter Baker and Thom Shanker at The New York Times write: Obama Plans to Retain Gates at Defense Department : President-elect Barack Obama has decided to keep Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in his post, a show of bipartisan continuity in a ...
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 ...
Newsweek: Why Gates might stay on
blog.newsweek.com 11/10/2008 — The Obama transition team isn’t saying anything about a pick for his Defense secretary, however, Robert Gates has never closed the door on the possibility of serving if asked.
Barack Obama to keep Robert Gates in Defense, Fox reports
latimesblogs.latimes.com 11/26/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama has decided to retain the Bush administration's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates , in his current position, at least for a year.
According to a report just posted on FoxNews.com, Gates' re-appointment as Defense ...
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Reuters: Politics 11/26/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will need a variety of programs to deal with troubled credit markets and is open to feedback from the incoming Obama administration in developing them, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday.
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