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Originally Posted by Norton  Damn. Another insider!!!!!
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay in his job when president-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, with an announcement expected next week, reports said late Tuesday." AFP: Gates to stay as Pentagon chief: reports |
yah, I got hell for posting that possibility when it first popped up about a week ago...He's pretty much just riding coat tails here, much of the measures were already in place and now over his term it will all begin to pan out and he'll be the world hero..
i like Gates but the fact is he doesn't represent "change" and his policies were already in place and turning the war in Iraq around.
i wasn't particularly impressed with Bush but let's be fair here he began his first term with a terrorist attack unlike any other in history and confronted an unseen, cowardly enemy that hides in caves and took the fight to their backyard instead of waiting passively for another attack and that strategy has prevented further attacks and drained their resources...
Bush had already made all of these admissions and direction changes that they are lauding about Obama doing, for Bush it was a detriment but for the super hero it displays good decision making and strong conviction, an obvious double standard...
now he ends his term with this world wide economic Tsunami which in spite of peoples perception he had little to do with. it is also in large part a by-product in some sense of the terrorist attacks and other factors beyond his control, but inevitably his admin in it's short time left has also taken positive steps to turn that in a new direction but it won't happen during his term so thus he won't get the credit instead just like Clinton the "One" will reap all of the accolades again..
the writing on the wall is so clear it's incomprehensible to me how others can deny it?