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openleft.com - 11/21/2008

General Jim Jones Likely NSA Pick

— openleft.com — CNN is reporting that retired General Jim Jones is the leading candidate to become Obama's national security... advisor. There is good reason to believe this reporting, given that Jones was one of sixteen names on the "semi-short list" for Obama's ... (more) General Jim Jones Likely NSA Pick

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General David Petraeus

Jim DeMint

Barack Obama

Robert Gates

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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/19/2008

Eyes on the Prize

— rossdouthat.theatlantic.com — Jim Geraghty : So Joe Lieberman is keeping his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee on the... say so of 42 Senate Democrats AND President Obama ; his Secretary of State might be Iraq War supporter and preconditionless-summit opponent Hillary ... (more) Eyes on the Prize

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Barack Obama

George W. Bush

Iraq

Iran

Robert Gates

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blogs.abcnews.com - 11/20/2008

Beau Biden Heads to Iraq

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: Beau Biden, son of Vice President-elect Joe Biden, left the United States... this morning en route to Iraq, ABC News has learned. Biden and his unit -- the 261st Signal Brigade -- left Ft. Bliss,... (more) Beau Biden Heads to Iraq

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Joe Biden

Iraq

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SUCKERS! Barack Obama’s signature issue in the primaries was his “good judgment” to oppose the Iraq…
Instapundit — SUCKERS! Barack Obama’s signature issue in the primaries was his “good judgment” to oppose the Iraq war. He invoked this more than any other qualification in his early battles with Hillary Clinton. She may have experience, he’d charge, but she lacked the wisdom to oppose the war. Indeed, the whole Democratic establishment was somehow corrupt or out of touch for not opposing the war, according to the Obamaphiles. So now Barack Obama is going to appoint Hillary Clinton to be the chief architect of his foreign policy. Moreover, ...

Left Already Disappointed With Choosing Obama
Stop The ACLU — ... de rigueur Sidwell Friends for the kids, and apparent sudden existential angst and uncertainty over FISA, getting out pronto from Iraq, closing down the Constitution-shredding Gitmo, and overturning the McCarthyite Patriot Act—and all to acclaim and relief from aristocratic Beltway pundits of both parties? So that was all the election was about? Just new faces on the same old, same old?” Actually, I was hoping for not too much change, so I’m fairly happy with this . . . . Jonah Goldberg: Barack Obama’s signature issue in the primaries was his “good judgment” to oppose the Iraq ...

Admiration & Mistrust for Barack Obama
GayPatriot — ... His appointments do signal a shift away from his campaign rhetoric and toward the more sensible defense policies John McCain espoused. Jonah Goldberg thinks this shift suggests the president-elect might just be “just a cynical, conventional, politician who brilliantly played his supporters’ idealism against them to get power.“ ...