[SWAMPSNIPER]

I’d have no problem if they just slip away at night, leave the key under the doormat.

[longfellow]

Biden couldn’t read a book let alone write one.

[Vendome]

So you guys are defensive linemen???

[Olog-hai]

What were Biden’s chances of his being “completely normal” (direct quote from him) after his brain aneurysm surgery?

[Baynative]

Leon Panetta was once a US Representative from the California Central Coast and as a Republican he was thought to be a straight shooter.

Somewhere along the way he sold his soul, or something very uncomfortable in his past was uncovered by the Clinton investigators. He changed his party affiliation and went to work walking point for the Clintons. He gave up any reputation of honesty he may have retained while serving as a "D" in congress.

Some say he is using this book to show he can stand for what is right by openly opposing Obama.

DON'T BUY IT! This is an opener for Hillary's campaign. Panetta will make some money off the book that the Clintons allowed him to write; but he is bought and sold by them and will not move a finger unless they pull the string.

[NFHale]

“..“At least give the guy a chance to get out of office.”..”

Why, so he can do more damage to us before he leaves, just out of pure spite?

Uh uh.

I’m not a big fan of Panetta, but at least he came out and let the country know what an incompetent clod half of them elected, instead of playing “Circle the Democrat Wagon and take one for Dear Leader”.

Panetta should be commended for having a modicum of testicular fortitude in this.

[Little Ray]

Yeah, they should have turned on him BEFORE the left when they could have done something reduce the damage.

[Safetgiver]

Plainly, an appointee who cannot in good conscience carry out a presidential policy ought to leave....Maybe the a-hole DIDN’T have a policy, period. Maybe he just ignored all advice and figured on blaming someone else once the SHTF.

[JimSEA]

I believe that both Gates and Panetta should have resigned in protest and, further, they are still underplaying the scope and depth of the problem. None the less, what they are saying now is more a service to the American people than a betrayal of the President.

[meadsjn]

He went on to add, “At least give the guy a chance to get out of office.” I’m with Joe here,

I agree with Joe, too. Make odinga's resignation retroactively effective January 22, 2009. Roll back all the illegal pronouncements, enactments, pretentions, etc., created since that date at the whims of the usurper.

Thanks, Joe.

[The Public Eye]

I’ll bet you that that David Stockman book is on Biden’s bookshelf someplace. It’s ok to back stab a Republican.

[lee martell]

Obama has never really been MY president. Obama presides or serves as leader only to his constituents, acolytes and dummy drones. Anyone in the least little bit skeptical of his decisions is declared an ‘enemy of the state’, just like in Red China! Me, and certain other Tea Partiers, have been without a real President since Bush left.

This is not necessarily party specific. I did not feel as adrift, or shut out during the Clinton years, even though I held a very low opinion of him, and still do in some areas. This is different, unvarnished animosity toward anyone who disagrees or questions.

[colorado tanker]

I guess dissent isn’t “the highest form of patriotism” when Democrats are in office.

[GeronL]

“Dissent is Patriotic”

In the old days anyway

[Parley Baer]

I think they feel Obama is doing much damage to this country and feel compelled to speak out.

[Gen.Blather]

I agree with Petraeus that the grunts can’t quit. But resigning in protest was probably the best option he could take for the country. As for the other tell-all book writers, none of them is a person of good moral character. So it’s to be expected they’d do bad things for a bad man and then make money by knocking that man down in their books. Frankly, I can’t see any Democrat objecting to anything another Democrat does on moral grounds. Flexible morality is the defining characteristic of Democrats. But if Obama complains that he was betrayed it’s rather like complaining that the hooker you paid for sex last night doesn’t really love you.

[2nd Amendment]

Biden - The best protection a President can buy!

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

For one thing, if a president is sitting in an Oval Office filled with appointees he believes likely to publish the juicy bits while he’s still in office, he — and the rest of those in the room — will never be as frank as they have a right to expect they can be.

Just maybe, if the president believes that his discussions in the Oval Office are going to be revealed to the public, he just might be more likely to actually be concerned about the well-being of the country.

As it is, we can only guess by their actions (or inaction) as to their true feelings.

[JPG]

[mmichaels1970]

He went on to add, “At least give the guy a chance to get out of office.” I’m with Joe here

Sure, at least don't reveal DANGEROUS mistakes and policies until the damage has been done and it's too late to do anything about it. /s