According to Don Surber, that’s what we got with Obama’s win.
The appointments officially announced yesterday by President Obama pretty much confirm how he may operate: Run left in the primaries, run center in the general, run right after election.
Let us review this national security team.
Robert Gates remains as defense secretary with a new mission to “responsibly ending the war in Iraq through a successful transition to Iraqi control.”
Unlike his old mission to “responsibly ending the war in Iraq through a successful transition to Iraqi control.” Which seems pretty much a fait accompli, what with Iraq agreeing to end the occupation in 36 months — twice the 16 months that Obama campaigned on.
Hillary Clinton, tested under fire in Bosnia (/snark), becomes the first elected official since Ed Muskie to take over as secretary of state. She voted from the war in Iraq. I am wondering how the Left is rationalizing this. But not really wondering enough to check out their blogs and see.
She seems more of a hawk than her hubby was.
Finally, his national security adviser will be Marine Gen. James Jones. Practical Very practical.
Not a Cyrus Vance in the bunch.
Everyone thought that Susan E. Rice, one of Obama’s closest campaign advisers and a fellow opponent of the war in Iraq, was a lock for a senior post in Washington after the election. Talk was she’d be National Security Advisor but it turns out she was given ambassador to the U.N., not exactly the job his camp was expecting as she is the only top figure in Obama’s national security team who opposed the war. She was also the only one with a close relationship with Obama, after working as his senior foreign policy adviser during the campaign.
“I was expecting her to be the national security adviser, or deputy secretary of state,” said Andrew S. Natsios, a former Bush administration envoy to Sudan who now teaches at Georgetown University. “That neither Susan or Tony are in those roles is instructive. It says that Obama is moving in a different direction than he was during the campaign.”
He’s already positioned himself to back away from his pledge to raise taxes on the job creators or as the left call them “the evil rich” and he’s also hinted that he won’t push to end the Bush tax cuts before they are set to expire.
I wonder if all the lefties that voted for the Messiah feel betrayed that Obama has decided that the Republican policies that he campaigned against – were actually the right policies for the country?
Nah, they are probably too blind to notice that Barack Obama has just become George W. Obama. LOL
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