Posted on 12/04/2012 8:29:06 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama is expected to announce his nominees for secretaries of state and defense in the next two weeks, with former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel on the short list of potential choices to head the Pentagon, senior administration officials said on Tuesday.
Hagel, whose appointment would give Obama's reshuffled second-term Cabinet a bipartisan cast, met the Democratic president at the White House this week to discuss a post on his national security team. But there was no sign that Obama had decided on any of the key nominations he will put forth. …
Other top contenders to replace Defense Secretary Leon Panetta are believed to include former senior Pentagon official Michele Flournoy, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Democratic Senator John Kerry. Complicating matters, Obama is also deciding whether to nominate Kerry as secretary of state to replace Hillary Clinton, or to go with Susan Rice, embattled U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. …
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Just want to know where others stand in line.....Grrrrrrrrr!!
Benghazi-Coward Obama seeks to appoint Republican to avoid being Impeached.
I can’t recall a single overture to Republicans Obama’s made that he actually made good on. Not one. His ‘compromising’ on the Fiscal Cliff was good for about 2 hours yesterday then back to his old Marxist self again. This talk is just bull crap is what it is.
Hagel? They couldn’t get Roseanne Barr?
Hagel? They couldn’t get Roseanne Barr?
We are all socialist... err... communists... errr AlQaeda now... how shucks, we are all racists too, so, we should be kumbaya now... right? I mean, PC beam me up here, I am a confused liberal (sarc off)
Paging Max Tucker, the anti Alinsky.
It's about to be hamstrung by massive cuts in just three weeks. It is 17% of the budget but going to be hit with 50% of the sequestration cuts. It is at historic levels of spending per % of GNP and has been sacrificed on the altar of "I am a fat lazy do-nothing American and I want a FREE check!"
Must be a CFR member.
Yup, thought so...
http://www.cfr.org/us-strategy-and-politics/conversation-chuck-hagel/p14931
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