Chuck Hagel and John Brennan:

[Union_Jack_1972]

Two interesting choices, and should be fun to watch the confirmation hearings...

Chuck Hagel is a very solid to great choice. Hagel bring enough to the DoD to bring the right changes in the DoD. If the Tea Pary Object to Hagel, well it is based on partisan views. As bein' Jewish, and havin' family from Lebanon, I do not have any problem with Hagel views, or words. I support Hagel nomination. I thought Hagel would have been a great V.P. or President.

Hagel has served our fine nation for many years, and if anyone objects to Hagel because of his stance with Iraq, then that mean you supported the invasion, and to be honest lack any knowledge to judge Hagel. His opinion on the war in Iraq is one I have supported. In the end Hagel is the best choice for Obama.

Now John Brennan is one I do question. Brennan is an ex-Bush era person, and I have serious questions over him. Brennan fit the mold for the CIA. John Brennan is noted for his support of toture, and it draws me to question Obama choice of this man. If Brennan is in support of torture and please what he supported durin' the Bush era was, is, and will always be torture, and now to say it ain't, well just make you partisan...

So I do not support his choice of John Brennan. I feel someone else should have been looked at. Someone like Brennan keep the old guard in the CIA, an change the culture that was in place when Bush was President. I know some of you will blindly support Obama choice for the CIA because to be honest you are partisan hacks, and would support the devil if Obama told you to do it...

So I hope Hagel is confirm for the DoD, and the Dems will call on Obama to re-think his choice of Brennan because Obama should have never selected Brennan... A great leader bring real change, and Obama has brought very little change, and that is my opinion...

P.S.

Now start the racist rant, and Obama is still not the greatest President, and his selection of John Brennan shows he's even somewhat a puppet of the Washington insiders...

 

[Jen]

There will be a lot of posturing but they will be confirmed.

I'm fine with it.

 

[Union_Jack_1972]

There will be a lot of posturing but they will be confirmed.

I'm fine with it.

I am fine with Hagel, but not Brennan...

Brennan was, and is a supporter to certain form of torture that he call Enhance Interrorgation... So I say no because he's from the Bush days, and it is time to put those idiots out of Washington...

 

[888888]

I'm all for the lady at the bottom of the page being confirmed for a trip to my bedroom.

 

[degsme]

What does criticizing OBama on Brennan have to do with being racist?

As for Obama being the Greatest POTUS... that's for history to decide. He's clearly not perfect. Clearly has made mistakes, OTOH he has so far prevented the Great Recession from becoming The Second Great Depression (despite the Tea Party's best Hooverian efforts to do just that). And more significantly he "out Reaganed Reagan" in creating a long lasting base for a more liberal politics.

He's also "schooled" the GOP on the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Ceiling. Basically Obama is an Eisenhower Republican... yes and?

 

[Union_Jack_1972]

What does criticizing OBama on Brennan have to do with being racist?

As for Obama being the Greatest POTUS... that's for history to decide. He's clearly not perfect. Clearly has made mistakes, OTOH he has so far prevented the Great Recession from becoming The Second Great Depression (despite the Tea Party's best Hooverian efforts to do just that). And more significantly he "out Reaganed Reagan" in creating a long lasting base for a more liberal politics.

He's also "schooled" the GOP on the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Ceiling. Basically Obama is an Eisenhower Republican... yes and?

First off we have been through two Depressions as a nation. The first one in 1890's and the second in the 1930's, so if we had fallen into a depression it would have been the third one...

Also it is some on the left that have tryin' to spin everything as racism if you object to anything Obama does. It is some on the left that did not even know that John Brennan supports some forms of torture, and will ignore his own words while tryin' to play the race card to win their argument...

I have been told a few times now that any objection to Obama is based on racism, and when I provide actual facts, well I am still a racist because I refuse to blindly support Obama...

Finally, Obama is average as President, and to even say that I have been told I am racist. So as I object to John Brennan it will be turn into I am a racist that hate Obama...

 

[MaryAnne]

The only reason this depression did not hurt as much is because of the programs that Roosevelt and Democrats since have put in place and fought Republicans all these years to keep them!