Petraeus to lead CIA; Panetta moves to Pentagon
Leon Panetta, a longtime congressman, former chief of staff to President Clinton and now director of the CIA, will be nominated to replace Robert Gates as secretary of defense, according to the Associated Press.
Gen. David Petraeus, now leading the NATO effort in Afghanistan, will reportedly replace Panetta at the CIA. That’s an interesting move on several counts, confirming that Petraeus intends to follow the Colin Powell/George Marshall model and be a major policy player in Washington for years to come, while staying clear of electoral politics.
The low-key Gates, initially appointed by President Bush to replace the discredited and more flamboyant Donald Rumsfeld, has been the right man in the right place for a long time now. Nobody’s irreplaceable, and Panetta brings his own strengths and credentials to the job. But it’s hard to conceive of someone doing a better job than Gates did during a particularly challenging time in the Pentagon.
– Jay Bookman
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UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
9:49 am
Keep….I will be more than happy to compare educational degrees with you if you like. Good luck.
ByteMe
April 27th, 2011
9:49 am
Maybe Obama did it to boost Trump’s chances of getting into the race and making the GOP primary more of a circus. These guys are smarter than we give them credit.
TaxPayer
April 27th, 2011
9:49 am
Helped us identify the crazy. They don’t wear team colors, so we needed another way.
Maybe Trump will start selling oversized head pieces to help his fellow birthers cover up their L’s.
BADA BING
April 27th, 2011
9:50 am
The bad thing about your ears, is that they keep growing your entire life. You may yet have huge ears, so watch who you tease. Little Trick or Treater comes to the door dressed as a pirate. The woman greets him and asks ” Where are your Buccaneers”? He replies ‘Under my buccan hat”!
getalife
April 27th, 2011
9:50 am
The President interrupts the blowhard trump.
All bithers apologize now.
AmVet
April 27th, 2011
9:51 am
Re, that first 9:44,
We would have been better off with Yul Brenner, rather than that incompetent buffoon, Paul Bremer….
Jay
April 27th, 2011
9:51 am
Official long-form birther post above.
USinUK
April 27th, 2011
9:52 am
Bada – an oldie but a goodie
Joe Cool
April 27th, 2011
9:52 am
Now the new game plan CONs…LOL.
@ UDUMB1999… ZZZZzzzzZZZzzz
51% of Repubs are birthers….. 51% of the Repub party just got the rug snatched from under them. Dumb azz people.
Good little liberal
April 27th, 2011
9:52 am
Joe Cool
So you think that releasing what he should have released four years ago pardons his incompetence? Look around. More people in poverty than ever before in history. Worst continued unemployment in our lifetime.
Chumps? You are the one that is still supporting the clown.
So who’s the chump . . . chump.
md
April 27th, 2011
9:53 am
“md, it means that the GOP has moved away from the political center at warp speed.
Hell, they are so far out there now, they couldn’t see it with the Hubble Telescope…”
As a ex card carrying member of both parties, I sumize that both parties are running from the center at warp speed.
I also recall ole zig zag Zell once stating that he didn’t leave the democrat party…..the party left him.
I guess it depends on where on the scale one might be viewing the spectacle………..
Good little liberal
April 27th, 2011
9:53 am
getalife
When you apologize for still supporting his failed policies.
UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
9:54 am
Joe Cool…..yep all you guys are right. The ONLY reason we disagree with Obama is because of his birth status. Fools, this guys is the biggest moron to ever hold office and you guys are worried about what he did today.
Keep bowing on your knees to him. I am sure he appreciates it.
UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
9:54 am
Good little……AMEN!!!
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 27th, 2011
9:54 am
retired early @ 9:49
Amen!!
Midori
April 27th, 2011
9:55 am
http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoons/BeeleN/2011/BeeleN20110427A_low.jpg
Jack
April 27th, 2011
9:55 am
Petraeus at the CIA is a very good thing.
Yippee
April 27th, 2011
9:56 am
We owe Trump a round of attaboys. He outsmarted Obama and got this off the table well in advance of the 2012 sideshow. Now it’s on to those pesky college records and writings.
UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
9:56 am
Good boy obama….good boy….great job obeying Trump…..here is a treat! Let the games begin!
Don't Forget
April 27th, 2011
10:00 am
UGA, the embarassment should be because there was never any real reason to doubt his birth and overwhelming evidence that he WAS born in Hawaii. The birthers were actually paranoid enought to think that somehow someone knew he would one day be president and had his birth falsely announced in a newspaper. That he somehow had the officials in Hawaii lying about factual information and that no one would find out about. They wanted us to believe that is was unusual that people who deliver babies every day did not specifically recall his birth. Sheesh the whole dam thing was moronic like most conspiracy theories because they ask you to believe a totally implausible theory as an explanation for some minor observation. So, you tell me……. why was this ever even an issue???? Name one presidential candidate who has EVER been asked to produce his long form BC other than Obama. Why was Obama held to a different standard?
Good little liberal
April 27th, 2011
10:01 am
Yippee
It’s great for trump. He forced Obama’s hand.
Liberals should be wetting themselves (more than usual) Trump gets things done. He forced Obama to do what no one else has done. Let’s see if he can force him to pack his bags and get out of our White House.
If he was able to cause this kind of trouble just over the birth certificate, wait until he goes after his policies.
Better strap yourself in, libs. This is going to be a rough ride.
BADA BING
April 27th, 2011
10:01 am
Peadog…..so you are a nerd? I have been a nerd, and idiot, a genius, a wallflower, a stud, an outlaw, and an angel. That’s just today.
UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
10:02 am
Dont…name another president that his father was Kenyan and had a muslim name.
UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
10:03 am
The debates between Trump and Obama should be on Pay Per View.
Mighty Righty
April 27th, 2011
10:04 am
The Obama plan to reduce gasoline prices: 1)Increase taxes on oil companies. 2)Appoint a committee of liberal friends to blame anyone other than him for the increases. 3) Coninue and expand the moratoriam on all drilling in this country. 4) Give Brazil money to drill in the gulf of mexico. 5) There is no silver bullett.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
April 27th, 2011
10:07 am
Trump didn’t do sh*t other than feed his ego.
John Birch
April 27th, 2011
10:07 am
Stupid Lib Tricks #1 – Let’s model ourselves after the Eurotrash. After all they’re doing so well…like Greece and Ireland and Spain, etc. I have a better idea; if you like the social democracies so much why don’t you all do like USINUK and just move there and make room for more Mexicans here!
Good little liberal
April 27th, 2011
10:09 am
UGA1999
He actually found another white hating preacher to take his kids to on Easter. Protective child services should take those kids before they become the racist that their Dad obviously is.
Good little liberal
April 27th, 2011
10:10 am
Have fun guys. Conservatives, don’t gloat too much.
I have money to earn and taxes to pay.
UGA1999
April 27th, 2011
10:11 am
Good little……are you surprised?
John Birch
April 27th, 2011
10:12 am
Stupid Lib Tricks #2 – Those evil corporations are getting handouts, tax breaks, incentives and making obscene profits while paying no taxes. A corporation is just a group of people, employees and stockholders with a legal charter. The stockholders participate in the obscene profits or the corporation retains them, often for use in expanding the business, thereby creating more jobs and stimulating the economy, you know, like Obama did with the stimulus handouts for government employees.
Mighty Righty
April 27th, 2011
10:18 am
Sorry. I was wrong. Obama does have a real birth certificate.
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 27th, 2011
10:23 am
Glad Obozo put out his birth certificate. That should go a long way to torpedoing Trump and removing a source of distraction within the GOP. Thanks, Idiot Messiah!
stands for decibels
April 27th, 2011
10:45 am
He actually found another white hating preacher to take his kids to on Easter.
You shouldn’t talk about Rick Warren like that.
TnGelding
April 27th, 2011
2:43 pm
USinUK
April 27th, 2011
9:33 am
How do they spend that tax revenue? Is it dedicated to transportation?
TnGelding
April 29th, 2011
1:07 am
This is not the time for a rookie at the CIA.
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