Lies We Can Believe In II
This is an excerpt from an Associated Press story from yesterday reporting that SecDef Gates will stay on indefinitely in the Obama Administration; yesterday was also the day news wires began reporting that President-elect Obama is going to formally announce Sen. Clinton as SecState after the Thanksgiving holiday; I bold the key phrases:
"The apparent logic in keeping Gates for an extended transition -- but perhaps not for a full presidential term -- is that it would allow time for a secretary-in-waiting, who might come aboard in January as Gates' deputy, to assemble a new team of senior defense policy officials before the top boss departs.
"It also would reflect a widely held view among Republicans as well as Democrats that Gates has the experience, demeanor and policy priorities to manage U.S. defense under a president of either political party. On the other hand, he has said he supported President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, whereas a central theme of Obama's campaign was that he opposed it from the start (Blogger's Note: BUT GATES DID NOT VOTE FOR THE WAR).
"One of the strongest indications of Obama's interest in possibly keeping Gates came in early October when Richard Danzig, a senior national security adviser to the Obama campaign and himself a possible selection to succeed Gates, told reporters that Gates has proved himself an effective Pentagon chief (Blogger's Note: A point the liberal extremists who control the media kept secret from Americans during the Presidential campaign. Who hired Gates?).
'"He'd be an even better one in an Obama administration," Danzig said. "Why do I think that? Because many of the kinds of efforts he's made are in tune with what we are trying to do." He mentioned, as examples, Gates' efforts to get more U.S. combat forces to Afghanistan and to expand the size of the Afghan army.
"Picking Gates, even with a tacit understanding that a Democrat such as Danzig would take over after a period of months, could be hard to swallow for liberals and strong critics of the Iraq war. Those groups nursed Obama's candidacy through an improbable infancy, motivated by his firm anti-war stance. (End of AP excerpt.)
Sen. Clinton VOTED FOR THE WAR!
Sen. Daschle VOTED FOR THE WAR!
Vice President-elect Biden VOTED FOR THE WAR!
The "liberals and strong critics of the Iraq war" must have scarred and bleeding throats with all they have had to swallow.
This is an excerpt from an Associated Press story from yesterday reporting that SecDef Gates will stay on indefinitely in the Obama Administration; yesterday was also the day news wires began reporting that President-elect Obama is going to formally announce Sen. Clinton as SecState after the Thanksgiving holiday; I bold the key phrases:
"The apparent logic in keeping Gates for an extended transition -- but perhaps not for a full presidential term -- is that it would allow time for a secretary-in-waiting, who might come aboard in January as Gates' deputy, to assemble a new team of senior defense policy officials before the top boss departs.
"It also would reflect a widely held view among Republicans as well as Democrats that Gates has the experience, demeanor and policy priorities to manage U.S. defense under a president of either political party. On the other hand, he has said he supported President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, whereas a central theme of Obama's campaign was that he opposed it from the start (Blogger's Note: BUT GATES DID NOT VOTE FOR THE WAR).
"One of the strongest indications of Obama's interest in possibly keeping Gates came in early October when Richard Danzig, a senior national security adviser to the Obama campaign and himself a possible selection to succeed Gates, told reporters that Gates has proved himself an effective Pentagon chief (Blogger's Note: A point the liberal extremists who control the media kept secret from Americans during the Presidential campaign. Who hired Gates?).
'"He'd be an even better one in an Obama administration," Danzig said. "Why do I think that? Because many of the kinds of efforts he's made are in tune with what we are trying to do." He mentioned, as examples, Gates' efforts to get more U.S. combat forces to Afghanistan and to expand the size of the Afghan army.
"Picking Gates, even with a tacit understanding that a Democrat such as Danzig would take over after a period of months, could be hard to swallow for liberals and strong critics of the Iraq war. Those groups nursed Obama's candidacy through an improbable infancy, motivated by his firm anti-war stance. (End of AP excerpt.)
Sen. Clinton VOTED FOR THE WAR!
Sen. Daschle VOTED FOR THE WAR!
Vice President-elect Biden VOTED FOR THE WAR!
The "liberals and strong critics of the Iraq war" must have scarred and bleeding throats with all they have had to swallow.
posted by Zack at 7:54 AM
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