Originally posted by centurion1211
Obama Promised Change, but Picks Insiders Instead

He is doing the best he can. Unfortunately his choices among the GOP right now are profoundly limited. He will not appoint someone unqualified just to demonstrate he is picking from both sides of the isle. Most of the republicans in DC right now are frothing at the mouth and spouting off things ...I dunno..like saying Obama is Hitler...

Why try to pet a rabid dog?

That said he has appointed an all-star team thus far and I am very optimistic for his tenure in office.

Originally posted by maybereal11

Originally posted by centurion1211
Obama Promised Change, but Picks Insiders Instead

He is doing the best he can. Unfortunately his choices among the GOP right now are profoundly limited. He will not appoint someone unqualified just to demonstrate he is picking from both sides of the isle. Most of the republicans in DC right now are frothing at the mouth and spouting off things ...I dunno..like saying Obama is Hitler...

Why try to pet a rabid dog?

That said he has appointed an all-star team thus far and I am very optimistic for his tenure in office.

I agree, he's doing the best he can and I could care less if he picks a member of the GOP. It's just window dressing.

For some of the long time observers, the question does not lie so much with his choices, but whether Zbigniew Brzezinski was learned anything since his last administration with the sub driver. He had a few problems the first time around.

Secondly, how well will Obama perform with Zbig in one ear, the Clintons in the other, and his suppporters watching the whole enchilada, keyboards at the ready!! This gentleman will have his hands full. The best of luck to him. He's going to need it, even in the best of times.

Oh, and regarding the trying to pet a rabid dog comment, the only "rabid" folks I've seen around here, "frothing at the mouth and spouting off things...." are carrying "NO on 8" signs and pushing around an old lady clutching her cross.

As far as the All-Star team goes, that remains to be seen. Good luck to those folks too.

Originally posted by Oldnslo

Originally posted by maybereal11

Originally posted by centurion1211
Obama Promised Change, but Picks Insiders Instead

He is doing the best he can. Unfortunately his choices among the GOP right now are profoundly limited. He will not appoint someone unqualified just to demonstrate he is picking from both sides of the isle. Most of the republicans in DC right now are frothing at the mouth and spouting off things ...I dunno..like saying Obama is Hitler...

Why try to pet a rabid dog?

That said he has appointed an all-star team thus far and I am very optimistic for his tenure in office.

.....Oh, and regarding the trying to pet a rabid dog comment, the only "rabid" folks I've seen around here, "frothing at the mouth and spouting off things...." are carrying "NO on 8" signs and pushing around an old lady clutching her cross.

Well none of those protesters are vying for cabinet appointments are they?

By "rabid dog" I was referring to the portion of the GOP in Washington DC and yes, the idiot Rep. Broun likened Obama to Hitler and Rep. Michele Bachmann claimed that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle held anti-American views and couldn't be trusted in the White House. She even called for the major newspapers of the country to investigate other members of Congress to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America."

I am just saying in a time where bipartisanship is needed there is a segment of the GOP that hasn't made it easy for Pres. Elect Obama to find and appoint moderate republicans. The party has been pandering to the far right for too long.

So two families (Bush and Clintons) at the power for 20 years or so, and when people start to realize they dont really have a choice between something else, they put Obama up for election and Clintons rule by Proxy instead.

Clever bastards, arent they...

George Bush : 1989-1993
Bill Clinton : 1993-2001
George W. Bush : 2001-2009
Clinton (Obama Proxy): 2009-2017

Nice democracy.

[edit on 25-11-2008 by Copernicus]

the "i told you so" stickers are in the mail.

There should be IQ tests before you vote on the electronic voting machines.
too little too late

You would think for such an important job, these elected officials would have put a great deal of time into who they want working with them in Washington.

BO already plans for more huge bailouts and stimulus deals, and was agreeing with Bush the other day for somthing. After all that talk about bad Bush policies.

I dont know whats worse, having a president everyone mocks on TV and media, or one that everyone follows and defends so blindly.

We're not saying that at all. We're saying we don't trust Ahmadinejad when he says he's developing nuclear material to construct reactors. We have several good reasons not to trust him:

Like?

1. The man has said that he believes he was born to wipe out the nation of Israel

Never heard that one before... Do you have a link?

2. Russia already offered to assist Iran by building nuclear reactors that would offer power to civilians. This was an effort to diffuse the tense international situation. Remember when the admitted that they were going forward with their enrichment program, they were offered many incentive packages to halt their enrichment program. The U.S. even put forward a couple of those packages! Iran declined Russia's offer and all of the incentive packages.

Iran has considerable and easily mined uranium reserves, upwards of 10 mines with just one mine having proven reserves of close to 1000 tons of uranium.

It seems silly that a country with such vast reserves should import their enriched uranium. That would be like Saudi Arabia having to shut down oil production and only be allowed to import oil.

Throughout the iranian civilian atomic program, Iran has been a game piece to other countries. At first they agreed to ímport as they didn't have the facilities to enrich. That lead to a situation where they would get some from Russi, then from India, then from France or Germany etc. They never knew where it would come from next as they were at the mercy of the US and the international community.

It makes perfect sense that they want to mine and enrich their own uranium

Given those facts, how do you expect anyone to trust what Ahmadinejad says?

Ahmadinejad is not Iran. In fact, he doesn't control the armed forces, nor does he control the atomic energy program. Iran has offered the IAEA to make Natanz a multinational fuel center with with private and public foreign companies involved and under strict supervision by the IAEA.