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If you watched the Palin interview and weren't scared out of your mind, then you're mentally ill. What you are not is responsible, informed, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious.
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Give the man a chance!!!
More and more of these articles about Obama's presidency being insufficient and de facto failed from any policy standpoint are coming out every day. And the guy hasn't even taken office yet, so there is no way of knowing just how his administration will run or be run. Seriously, is it such a slow news period that there isn't anything else to write about? Since when did every left-leaning opinion pundit become Nostradamus?
My dream Cabinet:
Treasury Secretary.....................Paul Volcker
SOS Ron Paul
Homeland Security Wesley Clark
Defense Chuck Hagel
Are you opining from the future, Lionel? Say, sometime after Jan. 20, 2009? Because, as of Dec. 3, 2008, Obama's not president and Clinton's not secretary of state. As for Gates, I believe I read somewhere on this site he's intimating that a redistribution of funds from Defense to State is called for, in order to back up U.S. military presence with appropriate diplomatic action. Of course, he can't do that because - did I mention this already? - Obama's not president yet.
How specific do you want a guy who's not yet president to be? Why would you expect him to be specific at all? He's got six weeks to look at the situations you've mentioned and consult with his team: Why would he give up that grace period to make declarations he can't immediately act upon, especially when six weeks might as well be a geological epoch in terms of global events?
Sheesh, man, you're trying to write the review based on the casting call.
How about a little chill, folks. the guy giving the orders is the guy who we just elected thinking he'd bring peace and prosperity. you can't pull antiwar protesters out of the crowd and expect them to run national defence or diplomacy. You need skilled hands to execute the orders.
and to this question post below: "Obama promises to send more troops to Afghanistan but to what end: What are our goals there?" How about the goal he stated; actually getting the people responsible for 9./11, which Bush should have done.
And say what once will about Hillary, she;s hardly a warhawk and the clinton years were a time of relative peace and prosperity. so how about we give her a break at least until the administration actually takes office.
How quickly we give up on Obama....
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