[OldFriend]

Too bad so many on this thread are bashing Panetta, obviously without reading his commentary....simple kneejerking. It's a new pastime around here lately.

[highlander_UW]

Too bad so many on this thread are bashing Panetta, obviously without reading his commentary....simple kneejerking. It's a new pastime around here lately.

Panetta is a black hat guy, but it seems to me that he's had a moment of illumination if he sees where the internal struggles in the dem party are heading. More insight and foresight than is typically of dems.