Post-Election Malaise
As British Prime Minister Tony Blair morphed from President Clinton's world leader soulmate to a stupid liar on, or shortly after, January 20, 2001, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is morphing from the face of the Bush Administration's prosecution of the war in Iraq to the man most qualified to be President-elect Obama's Secretary of Defense.
This is just the latest example of how the national media, doubling as President-elect Obama's communication team, is keeping me in a post-election malaise.
I still have no creativity for a significant post.
Anyone with a suggestion? Or, how about a question to generate a conversation in the comments?
As British Prime Minister Tony Blair morphed from President Clinton's world leader soulmate to a stupid liar on, or shortly after, January 20, 2001, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is morphing from the face of the Bush Administration's prosecution of the war in Iraq to the man most qualified to be President-elect Obama's Secretary of Defense.
This is just the latest example of how the national media, doubling as President-elect Obama's communication team, is keeping me in a post-election malaise.
I still have no creativity for a significant post.
Anyone with a suggestion? Or, how about a question to generate a conversation in the comments?
posted by Zack at 6:23 PM
4 Comments:
What do you think of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State? In your opinion,is she worthy? Will she be effective in the post? And, how far back do you think she and Obama had this "agreement" in place if he won the election?
I think Hillary Clinton will be a very good Secretary of State provided she can assert her influence on the dovish Obama. I do not think she had any deal with Obama before the election. I am surprised she took the post, though. If she has to appease terrorists for the next four years, how does that help her? I think she could have been a very successful Senator for a very long time and I don't think that's a bad legacy. She cannot challenge Obama in 2012 for the nomination from his Cabinet and she's not so much of a traitor to the United States that she'd orchestrate a "falling out" with Obama, at the risk of national security, to set herself up for a 2012 challenge. She'll be about 70 in 2016.
Is the progression, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Byrd, Clinton if something bad happens simultaneously to the first four?
December 6, 4:35 pm
So, you will not admit that Obama is cool? OK. But the story of the black man who ran for President was certainly more compelling than the story of the former POW who ran for President. Would you agree with that assessment? I note that you were ZacklyWrong on your presidential prediction prior to election day.
Anonymous,
George Clooney is cool. I want him at my parties and I want him to be my wing-man if I ever needed a wing-man. But I don't want George Clooney for my President.
And, please google "ZACKlyRight, Cold Turkey, race-relations" for my thoughts on a skin-color obsessed America.
I hope you are not arguing that if American voters think a Punjabi Indian candidate for president is a more "compelling" story than a bi-racial president that those Americans should vote for the Indian. I would certainly disagree with that.
I was ZACKlyWrong on much these last months. But I acknowledged when my predictions were more what I wanted to happen (as in the Presidential election) than what I honestly thought would happen.
I'll find it later today but I wrote a long time ago that even if Rep. Dennis Kucinich were elected President we would have U.S. military in Iraq for a very long time. We elected Obama and we will have U.S. military in Iraq for a very long time despite his campaign lies.
December 7, 9:11 am
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