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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Obama leaks cabinet choices in time for Halloween scare
Sen. McCain meant, I think, to reassure Americans that they need not be "afraid" that Barack Obama is an "Arab" or a "terrorist" himself.
But Americans have ample cause to be afraid of other aspects of an Obama presidency, as my guest-post at HughHewitt.com emphasizes while discussing Obama's leaked names of likely Secretaries of Defense and State. No, it's not The Onion with a mock slate, it's the Times of London, and Obama is absolutely serious about Hagel at DoD and Kerry at State. It's actually hard to think of any choices that could be more stupid and dangerous for America.
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[Copied here for archival purposes on November 5, 2008, from the post linked above at HughHewitt.com.]
(Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar)
Sen. Barack Obama has done America a great service by leaking some names of likely cabinet nominees to the Times of London.
For Secretary of Defense, The One is is looking to the Republican whose own bad judgment most closely duplicated Sen. Obama's own in fervently opposing the Surge and demanding that we surrender in Iraq on a strict timetable: Sen. Chuck Hagel. In January 2007, Sen. Hagel was quoted as saying that the surge would be "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out."
This is the Obama definition of "working with those across the aisle": Selecting the single most dim-witted GOP senator. Bozo Sen. Hagel is almost certainly too stupid to realize that he would enter any Obama Administration with the words "Fall Guy" prominently tattooed across his forehead.
And for the National Leader of the International Mother-May-I Team — excuse me, Secretary of State — Sen. Obama's leaking the name of Sen. John F. "Global Test" Kerry. Sen. Kerry, you'll recall, has splendid foreign policy credentials, having left behind in a Massachusetts closet his uniform as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1970 (and perhaps again in 1971) so that he could travel to Paris and meet secretly and in mufti with our Viet Cong and North Vietnamese enemies. John McCain and his fellows were still POWs when young Kerry returned to urge — yes, you've got it — an immediate American surrender and withdrawal without preconditions from South Vietnam, which by the oddest of coincidences was exactly the same "peace plan" being preached at that very moment by our enemies themselves.
The only potential glitch in this plan is that Kerry may be re-classified as a WMD — specifically, a wide-area narcoleptic weapon.
Shocking. Brazen. Insanely dangerous. The geopolitical decisions of a naive child, choosing deputies who are demonstrably more naive than I feared even Obama himself was. That's what we would see in an Obama administration. And we won't be able to say that we weren't duly warned. John McCain was correct that Americans need not be "scared" that Obama himself is a terrorist or the like. But Americans ought be afraid of spectacularly bad judgments like these and the catastrophic consequences they could cause for the entire world.
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(1) Carol Herman made the following comment | Oct 19, 2008 12:28:39 PM | Permalink
OY.
We're so close to election day, and I'd be surprised if McCain shot up enough to win, now. Could he? Sure.
But what about "true believers?" People who are so centered on the GOP they fail to see what's in the wind?
What if Obama makes it?
Would that teach lessons?
Would it teach anyone that McCain has been a disaster. And, that he did this to himself? Finally wrapping in a cloak that says doctors can get in trouble if they do abortions? And, his administration would help women, instead of having abortions, ... tada ... of putting their babies up for adoption. Did you know this led to "back alley abortions" as soon as ether was invented as a way to put a patient to sleep during a procedure?
Did you know women used to use knitting needles in the hope of entering their own uteruses, just to get the fetus out?
And, you want to drive big trucks around the USA. Depicting "an abortion." When most abortions aren't 6feet-tall. But are the size of a dot?
Of course, it sounds like men are capable of selling women just about anything.
What's the GOP label going to be worth, ahead? Home to Dubya's "gut feelings" and "Christian religious experiences?" Where has Dubya been right about anything? Even his "Mission Accomplished" banner comes back to haunt.
By the way, McCain can lose because he has no plan. All he does is insult Obama. That's not a workable plan.
As to it being Obama; there's a good saying out there: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.
Hillary came into the primaries sure she'd win the democratic nomination. Then? Well, she won 9 out of 10 big states. But Rush Limbaugh, talking to millions of his listeners, told them to "register as democrats," so they could vote for Obama. And, that's how Obama won states in the south. States he might not carry to the 270 Electoral College votes he needs to win in November.
I guess it's an adversarial system. Where lawyers are trained to argue. When they have the law on their side? They argue well. When they don't? They learn a few mischievious tricks. And, they get paid, anyway. Win. Lose. Or draw. In other words? For all the legal bills Martha Stewart had, she ended up with nothing to show.
Good to remember that you're in an adversarial system, that can leave the GOP much poorer. It still has its rabid base. They won't learn much. But, I do suspect the screaming will continue.
While if Obama wins? He runs to the center! Which is exactly where most of the voters are. And, if he wins? It means at least half the voters have enough confidence in giving him 4 years.
Congress? What if it gets a "supra-majority?" What if both the House and Senate now grows? Would that teach ya anything?
One of the things about "the base," before Sarah Palin came along, the base closed its purses. And, were not sending in money.
In an environment where money from strangers counts for points.
What would have been better? Well, I think Roe V. Wade IS the law. And, if Obama wins a lot of people aren't talking, but they don't want to lose this law!
Wouldn't it have been better to have a plan? Of course, then you'd have to show that Bush was DC's biggest spender, ever.
And, in that sense? Bush will be burning the GOP house down for a long time to come. People don't forget the recessions. They're tipping points.
To win? You'll need more than the clothes in the closet. And, the fancy shoes. You'll be competing, ahead, with the "street."
It's like being a silent film star when the talkies come along.
(2) Dai Alanye made the following comment | Oct 19, 2008 4:06:22 PM | Permalink
As prolog, I wish to make it clear that I have no connection with the previous commenter--none whatsoever.
Hagel and Kerry in the cabinet? While I doubt the London Times has much insight, the prospect of those two could almost reconcile me to an Obama presidency. It would make the next four years grandly and bizarrely interesting.
A few other suggestions: William Ayers as Sec'y of Education, Barney Franks at the Federal Reserve, John Murtha as National Security Advisor, Dennis Kucinish as head of NASA.
(3) P.K. made the following comment | Oct 20, 2008 11:55:59 AM | Permalink
I would recommend EPA administrator Al Gore to the potential Obama appointments
(4) Milhouse made the following comment | Oct 24, 2008 2:04:43 AM | Permalink
Nah, Barney Frank will be head of the Civil Rights division at DOJ. Under Attorney General Alcee Hastings. Housing Secretary Deval Patrick, with Jesse Jackson Jr as his deputy. Or maybe Tony Rezko, unless they make him ambassador to Iraq. Veterans Affairs Secretary Charles Rangel. And I'm sure they'll find Doug Kmiec a job somewhere - maybe ambassador to the Vatican.
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