Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet (duh)
Posted November 20th, 2008 by xntryk1
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From the Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2008
Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
Activists note that most of the candidates for top security posts voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq or otherwise supported launching the war.
By Paul Richter 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.
"Obama ran his campaign around the idea the war was not legitimate, but it sends a very different message when you bring in people who supported the war from the beginning," said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of the 54-chapter Iraq Veterans Against the War.
The activists -- key members of the coalition that propelled Obama to the White House -- fear he is drifting from the antiwar moorings of his once-longshot presidential candidacy. Obama has eased the rigid timetable he had set for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and he appears to be leaning toward the center in his candidates to fill key national security posts.
The president-elect has told some Democrats that he expects to take heat from parts of his political base but will not be deterred by it.
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Obama and the Great Depression
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November 20, 2008
Obama and the Great Depression
By Mickey Z.
No, I don’t mean that Great Depression. I’m talking about the inevitable moment—maybe next week, maybe next year—when the Kool Aid wears off and the Obamatrons wake up to realize their hero offers nothing even approximating hope or change.
The carefully calculated speeches—which have always been filled with empty, hollow phrases—will no longer soothe a battered and desperate populace and the Obamabots will suddenly recognize that the Pope of Hope has never been anything more than a human marketing strategy, a product. This year’s iPhone.
“Yes we can”? Merely the first three words of a longer phrase: “Yes we can continue to work, consume, and obey authority without question.”
A great depression, so to speak, will set in. According to Depression.com, some people say this condition feels “like a black curtain of despair … Many people feel like they have no energy and can't concentrate. Others feel irritable all the time.” Other common symptoms include "empty" feelings and a sense of hopelessness.
Hopelessness: how frighteningly appropriate for the inescapable post-Obama comedown. Change we can bereave in.
Yes, a great and unpreventable depression will set in…but, you betcha, the damage is already done.
So far...
Obama has hired a couple of token non-Jews. Looking like the Knesset cabinet. War for Israel is straight ahead.
HAHAHAH idiots...
Many people in the know tried to tell these voters that obama is more of the same but they just didnt listen. Not even with the FISA vote or the AIPAC speech. Hes just another sellout that blinded the sheeple with buzzwords and empty promises.
The real test will be how much of the unconstitutional executive power he gives up, but seeing as he voted for that treasonous FISA bill, Im not hoping for much
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
they really are SLOW learners,
aren't they?
LOL..
oh yes.
lol ~ love your editorial comment
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what talented ron paul supporter is going to come up with the new smash hit tune, The Bloom is Off The Rose