Opening The Gates
Another good decision:
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 secretary of state, officials said.
Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, former Marine commandant and commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, will be named national security adviser, the officials said.
The national security adviser heads the National Security Council, which is the part of the White House structure that deals with foreign policy, and varies in influence from presidency to presidency. Jones insisted on – and got – a commanding role, the sources said.
Whatever you might think of his politics, Obama seems to want serious people for his cabinet. It’s a welcome departure from Bush’s yes-men.
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Whatever you might think of his politics, Obama seems to want serious people for his cabinet.
Is that why he put that idiot Jennifer Granholm on his economic policy team?
There are a few picks I"m not happy with, but Gates was one of the best appointees of the Bush era. Glad to see he’s staying on.
"Bush’s yes-men”? Oh for crying out loud, Gates is just one of those “yes-men”. And serious people, you say? Well, those are just Clinton’s “yes-men”, aren’t they?
We now see that “CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE” was just a slogan to ignite the kossite lefties. Obama lied to them (thank God), he is just another pragmatic pol.
i willing to bet that GATES will become a fall guy at some point..
Bush is/was the “Yes Man” for his “advisers” not the other way around!
So Bush’s “Yes Man” becomse bHo’s “smart choice”? I see how you think.....
WVR, you write the stupidest shit sometimes. So a bunch of recycled Clinton minions are NOT yes-men? Fuck.
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