Posted on 07/28/2010 4:31:39 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Why is he bashing Wall Street in front of the Boy Scouts?
Gates doesn’t impress me either.
I agree with Jedidah. However bashing Washington DC and Wall Street: sounds like a campaign speech.
Gates didn’t want the job to start with, took it only because W needed him. And I don’t think he wanted to stay on when Obama took office, but has been standing in the gap for us the past year and a half.
Gates has a strong sense of duty. He left Washington once, and only went back because he was needed. Keep in mind that the surge in Iraq was on his watch and after he told Congress that things were in a stalemate there.
Don’t know how much longer he can take it. Maybe if we can flip Congress, they can demand a good replacement in exchange for confirmation.
I do not think he will run, but wouldn’t it be good to once again have a grownup in charge?
Bullsh!t!
If the scuttlebutt is accurate, Gates has hunkered down at Defense to protect our military men and women from Obama. How can that be accomplished without some significant political maneuvering (much of which might appear as you suggest--milquetoasty)?
Obama is a proof - anybody can be President. Can’t be worse. While Obama is chatting on the View - Gates is talking in front of 45 000. Makes the Obama View appearance even more bizarre. He could have been speaking to the crowd - instead he chose Joy Behar
ROTFLMAO!
He would NEVER make it through the primaries even!
Utter nonsense. It is unnecessary to post stupid speculation by the under employed.
It depends what kind of secrets he knows from his CIA time :)
Comparing with Obama and Joy Behar today - Gates looks presidential in front of the crowd. Obama missed a killer photo-op with the Scouts.
From what I hear, the military stands behind him. Not so for Obama.
Of course, I might be dead wrong. It isn't easy on the outside looking in. In fact, it isn't easy at present on the inside looking upward.
>> None of Romneys 5 boys went to serve
If you’re a Romney, you’re used to BEING served.
If Obama did think that Gates was going to run in 2012, that would give him a reason to see to it that the surge in Afghanistan did fail...but I really doubt Gates has a 2012 run in mind.
First, sorry for being so abrupt with the "bullsh!t" comment. You may be perfectly correct about the 'milquetoast' thing.
The position I posited was one grounded more in the passion of wishful thinking than fact.
But I hope like hell you are wrong and I am right (that's the source of the charge of 'bullsh!t). I really hope that there are some heroic Americans working behind the scenes to protect our military from the insidious character and actions of Obama.
And I hope Gates is one of those heroes!
You may be right. The only thing: I don’t want to believe that somebody would cause the war to fail to hurt an opponent in elections.
By the way: if Obama is afraid from the Boy Scouts - he should be impeached - the US has real enemies. We don’t need a chicken-in-chief.
//We dont need a chicken-in-chief//
But that is what we have.
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