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Skriven 2009-03-16 09:00:00 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av John Fitzgerald
Ärende: Re: Critical Hypocrisy
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-=> JOHN FITZGERALD wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 JF> What do you think about Obama's appointments?  Or are you doing the
 JF> goose-step there and approve of them all?

 DD>  I think Hillary as SOS was a mistake.

 JF>   Like I've always said, Hillary would still be a nobody running real
 JF> estate scams in Arkansas if it wasn't for Bill.  She got to be Senator
 JF> and S.O.S. on name recognition only.  Because she was involved with one
 JF> scandal after another she no doubt has dirt on a lot of people going
 JF> all the way back to her and Bill's sordid affairs in Arkansas.   Makes
 JF> you wonder where Obama falls in, as he's got a lot of scary connections
 JF> too. Why else would he appoint her?  Because of her 'skills'??  Seems
 JF> he is keeping more than one person happy...and quiet.

Beg to differ. Hillary is a Chicago girl. She was only in Arkansas because of
Slick. Give her pedigree she would have been prominent in Chicago politics.
Like Rod Blagojevic.   Bv)=

 DD>  Other than Sarah Palin she is the
 DD>  scariest woman in national politics.

 JF>   What exactly is the big deal with Palin anyways?  She's sort of a
 JF> nobody who most people never heard of until McCain picked her for
 JF> his running mate.

Because she is an extremist religious nut-case who hit her "Peter principle" as
Mayor of Wasilla, but, was tapped to run for a job that would have, if elected,
put her a hertbeat from being chief executive of my country. The country could
have survived a McCain presidency ... somehow.

But, if he were to be suddenly take dead I have NO confidence that Palin would
have been up for the job.

Hopefully, by the time of the next presidential election cycle (beginning
sooner than you think) she will be the same sort of political footnote as
Michael Dukakis or J. Danforth Quayle (with whom I have equated her).

 DD>   I'm not sure about Leon Panetta as head of the CIA.
 DD>   But, people of the quality of Bill Donovan are thin
 DD>   on the ground these days. And the job of Director of
 DD>   Central Intelligence IS a political (in the small
 DD>    "p" meaning of that word) ob.

 JF>   Panetta has zero intelligence gathering experience. Obama said he was
 JF> selected because of his "managerial skills".  Gotta wonder what's
 JF> really going on there too.

Oh, I do. I do. We will all have to wait and see how it works out. He may
surprise and be a good director ... keeping in mind that Director of Central
Intelligence is an admin job and has f*ck-all to do with hands-on intel work.

But, it would be nice to be sure that Leon understands what he is being told by
the intelligence types who work for him.

... Man who scratch butt should not bite fingernails - Confuzius
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