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To: Red in Blue PA; Admin Moderator
Mods, Please move to breaking news
2 posted on
01/05/2009 11:50:51 AM PST by
Red in Blue PA
(Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
To: Red in Blue PA
This is going downhill, rapidly. Panetta is a certifiable goofball.
To: Red in Blue PA
4 posted on
01/05/2009 11:51:36 AM PST by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Red in Blue PA
And I was sure it would be Sandy Berger.
5 posted on
01/05/2009 11:51:40 AM PST by
Lorianne
To: Red in Blue PA
This is a joke right?
Is Obama going to name a single experienced person to an important post or is that too much to ask of the noobie?
6 posted on
01/05/2009 11:51:45 AM PST by
HelloooClareece
("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)
To: Red in Blue PA
And the hits just keep coming. I watched as Major Garret discussed the fact that Paneta has no experience or background in intelegence.
8 posted on
01/05/2009 11:52:10 AM PST by
umgud
(I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
To: Red in Blue PA
A 7-Eleven Assistant Manager has more intelligence experience than Panetta.
9 posted on
01/05/2009 11:52:17 AM PST by
AmericanGirlRising
(Buying carbon credits will not get me into Heaven. I am second - http://iamsecond.com/#/home/)
To: Red in Blue PA
Clinton Chief-of-Staff! The “change” keeps coming!
10 posted on
01/05/2009 11:52:52 AM PST by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light!)
To: Red in Blue PA
I'm completely convinced that Dear Leader hasn’t got an original thought in his n....y head.
Clinton reruns is change?
11 posted on
01/05/2009 11:52:55 AM PST by
Coldwater Creek
("There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological Narcissist as president.")
To: Red in Blue PA
One of the most partisan hacks in the past 20 years is going to head up the CIA?
Lord, have mercy.......
12 posted on
01/05/2009 11:52:55 AM PST by
TexasNative2000
(Everything Obama does is "appropriate", therefore, nothing he does is "inappropriate".)
To: Red in Blue PA
wow... does he have any military or intelligence experience?
13 posted on
01/05/2009 11:53:34 AM PST by
babubabu
To: Red in Blue PA
Makes sense, a Monterey liberal with no experience in Intelligence work except for spying on the Boffo when he was his Chief of Staff. Former GOP who felt the GOP was anti minority rights. Heavy on the enviornmental side. Will probably end the CIA’s use of Whales for Sonar program.
14 posted on
01/05/2009 11:55:33 AM PST by
Mouton
To: Red in Blue PA
What??? !!!
Panetta?? Is this some kind of joke?
16 posted on
01/05/2009 11:55:37 AM PST by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Red in Blue PA
I guess Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan must have turned him down and he had to go with his third choice...
Be grateful for Panetta, Barbra Streisand was #4 and George Clooney #4...
19 posted on
01/05/2009 11:56:32 AM PST by
RobFromGa
(It's the Spending, Stupid! (not the method of collection))
To: Red in Blue PA
Panetta started politics in 1966 as a legislative assistant to Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel, the United States Senate Minority Whip from California, whom Panetta has called "a tremendous role model"[1].
In 1969 he became the assistant to Robert H. Finch, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Nixon administration. Soon thereafter he was appointed Director of the Office for Civil Rights.
Panetta chose to enforce civil rights and equal education laws, even under political pressure not to from then-president Nixon, who was implementing his "Southern strategy". Robert Mardian said of Panetta: "Doesn't he understand Nixon promised the Southern delegates he would stop enforcing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts?"[2]. Secretary Finch and Assistant Secretary John Veneman refused to fire Panetta, threatening to resign if forced to do so. A few weeks later in 1970, Panetta resigned and left Washington to work as Executive Assistant for John Lindsay, the Republican Mayor of New York City. He wrote about this experience in his 1971 book Bring Us Together: The Nixon Team and the Civil Rights Retreat.
He moved back to Monterey to practice law at Panetta, Thompson & Panetta from 1971 through to 1976.
Congressional work
Panetta switched to the Democratic Party in 1971, as he felt the Republican Party was moving away from the center and was working against civil rights legislation. In 1976 he was elected to Congress to represent California's 16th congressional district (the 17th district after the 1990 census), and was reelected for nine terms.
During his time in Congress, his work concentrated mostly on budget issues, civil rights, education, health, and environmental issues, particularly preventing oil drilling off the California coast. He wrote the Hunger Prevention Act (Public Law 100-435) of 1988 and the Fair Employment Practices Resolution. He was a major factor in establishing the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
His positions included:
* Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget
* Chairman of the Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition
* Chairman of the Administration Committee's Subcommittee on Personnel and Police
* Chairman of the Task Force on Domestic Hunger created by the U.S. House Select Committee on Hunger
* Vice Chairman of the Caucus of Vietnam-Era Veterans in Congress
* Member of the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies.
Budget work
Panetta (right) meets with National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and President Clinton in 1994.
He was a key participant of the 1990 Budget Summit, and served on the U.S. House Committee on the Budget from 1979 to 1985, as well as being the chairman from 1989 to 1993.
In 1993, the beginning of his ninth term, he was chosen by then-President Bill Clinton to be Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget. He is credited with developing the budget package that would eventually result in the balanced budget of 1998. On July 17, 1994, he was appointed White House Chief of Staff by Clinton, a position he held until January 20, 1997. He was an important negotiator of the 1996 budget, which was another important step towards balancing the budget.
20 posted on
01/05/2009 11:56:33 AM PST by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: Red in Blue PA
Overheard in ‘da hood today: “Da-yum.. why he ain’t pick P.Diddy or somfin for no jobs yet”
30 posted on
01/05/2009 12:03:34 PM PST by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: Red in Blue PA
Interesting. Very similar to Bush 41’s career prior to DCI job.
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Panetta’s prior to becoming DCI:
Member of the House of Representatives (1976-1993)
Dir, OMB (1993)
WH, COS: (1994-1997)
Bush 41’s prior to becoming DCI:
Member of the House of Representatives (1966-1970)
U.N. Amb (1971-1973)
Chrm, RNC (1973-1974)
China Envoy (1974-1975)
To: Red in Blue PA
I would think that this type of position would absolutely require some professional experience in the field.
This is not a place to put amateurs...
To: Red in Blue PA
Geez - another Clintonista. I find it very strange that he is stacking his cabinet with Clinton people. Hey, maybe she has a copy of that birth certificate......
To: Red in Blue PA
This must be satire.
What do the Clinton’s have on this Hussein creep?
40 posted on
01/05/2009 12:07:33 PM PST by
roses of sharon
("No socialist system can be established without a political police.", Churchill -1945)
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