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Topic started on 20-11-2008 @ 06:57 AM by whiteraven

Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.

The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for top security posts backed the decision to go to war.
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[edit on 11/20/2008 by maria_stardust]


reply posted on 20-11-2008 @ 07:38 AM by whiteraven

President-elect promised change, picking insiders





President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change, but he has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.

Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary. Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed more likely than ever to be his secretary of state. Clinton is deciding whether to take that post as America's top diplomat, her associates said Wednesday.

Obama is ready to announce that his attorney general will be Eric Holder, the Justice Department's No. 2 when Clinton's husband was president. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, is another veteran of the Clinton White House.

A few names that have bubbled up for Cabinet posts don't have strong Clinton connections. Several news organizations reported Thursday that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is Obama's primary choice to be secretary of the Homeland Security Department. The New York Times, citing Democrats with knowledge of the process, said Napolitano was about to be offered the job. The Washington Post and The Politico Web site also reported that she was Obama's choice.




Above is some more information on the cabinet picks. Remember, the past is prologue.

Hunter S. Thompson alluded to the presidential race as the cruelist game on earth. I remember his comment aluding to the fact that just to get into the savage race wierdness must be employed into those who would even dare to seriously consider trying to place yourself upon the Throne of the MostPowerful Country ever from the time of birth onward.

And so it goes.

We have someone who proclaimed "Change" and we said yes but the change is beginning to look the same.

edit for other linkwww.google.com...


[edit on 20-11-2008 by whiteraven]



reply posted on 20-11-2008 @ 09:28 AM by thisguyrighthere
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At least if Obama decides to meddle with Darfur it couldnt possibly be any worse than when Clinton stopped by Rwanda to wave hello then took off ASAP.

The next 4-8 is going to be like the last 16 all mashed up into one terrible nightmare with plenty of brown people dying and a whole slew of freedoms being denied.

All to the sound of great Obama/Clinton supporter applause no doubt.
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