julescrittenden.com - 11/26/2008
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Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense. Politico:
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 ...
thinkprogress.org - 11/23/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Economists on both the left and right broadly
agree that the need for stimulative government spending is
necessary to prevent a further collapse of the global economic system — just as the New Deal and the deficit spending of World War II ...
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George Will: ‘The First New Deal Didn’t Work’
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JULES CRITTENDEN CELEBRATES Bush’s third term!…
Instapundit —
JULES CRITTENDEN CELEBRATES Bush’s third term!
Obama's National Security And Foreign Policy Team
Newshoggers.com —
... - and no, the point isn't praising Junior for his Babysitter. It's partly about stopping the military's desk-jockeys from whining, in Clinton era style, about a President and SecState who don't "get" them while much needed reforms are pushed through but mostly about ...
Gates
Belmont Club —
... that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, a development that Jules Crittenden sarcastically refers to as Obama’s vote for Bush. The Mudville Gazette also notes Obama has shifted his policy 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 ...
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What?
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A ...
So, What Next?
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It’s All Over
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It’s Not What You Know
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As the administration moves ...
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Man Up
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