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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2275)	11/26/2008 2:05:00 PM
From: pompsander	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Some Neocons impressed with Obama's "all star" cabinet and advisory selections... _________________ commentarymagazine.com Obama’s Picks Max Boot - 11.25.2008 - 6:38 PM According to the latest news reports, President-elect Obama will nominate a national security team next week that is stunning in its moderation. The headliners–Bob Gates staying at Defense, Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, retired General Jim Jones taking over the NSC–have already been more or less reported, or at least much speculated on. The lower-level picks are just as encouraging: Democrats familiar with the national-security event early next week said they also expect James Steinberg, who was deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, to be named deputy secretary of State; Susan Rice, Obama’s senior foreign policy adviser on the campaign, to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; and retired Adm. Dennis Blair, the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command and a veteran of the NSC, Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Chiefs of Staff, to be named the director of national intelligence. The only outright leftist in the bunch is Susan Rice, and she is being shunted aside to a post where the premium is on rhetoric, not action. She will presumably be called upon to explain and defend policies formulated by the senior national security team which includes two men who are not Democrats–Gates and Jones–and one woman who is on the rightward side of the Democratic Party when it comes to national security issues (and paid a price for it in the primaries). As someone who was skeptical of Obama’s moderate posturing during the campaign, I have to admit that I am gobsmacked by these appointments , most of which could just as easily have come from a President McCain. (Jim Jones is an old friend of McCain’s, and McCain almost certainly would have asked Gates to stay on as well.) This all but puts an end to the 16-month timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, the unconditional summits with dictators, and other foolishness that once emanated from the Obama campaign. His appointments suggest that, if anything, his administration will have a Reapolitiker, rather than a liberal, bent, although Clinton and Steinberg at State should be powerful voices for “neo-liberalism” which is not so different in many respects from “neo-conservativism”. Both, for instance, support humanitarian interventions in places like Darfur and Bosnia. Combined with the moderation of the economic team that Obama has just named, I would say his administration already far exceeds expectations, and he hasn’t even taken office yet

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2275)	11/26/2008 3:30:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

No need to be a partisan of any particular sort to note the simple STATISTICS of the matter.... As far as poll ratings for American Presidents go, 13% of all voters Strongly Approving of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president, and Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapproving... giving the current President a -30 rating on the Presidential Approval Index is historically very low. (Bush also hit historic high favorable numbers as the country rallied-round him directly after 9-11. And, it wouldn't necessarily make me any king of a partisan to note that statistic either. <g>)