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Obama Loses Key Foreign Policy Advisor
Newsweek ^
| 10/01/2009
| Holly Bailey
Posted on 10/01/2009 11:57:46 AM PDT by SDShack
Big news from the West Wing: Mark Lippert, one of President Obamas closest foreign-policy advisers, is leaving to rejoin the Navy. Lippert, who is deputy national-security adviser and chief of staff of the National Security Council, has worked for Obama since his first days in the Senate and later advised him during the campaign. Perhaps no one on the foreign-policy team, save for fellow campaign vet and top NSC aide Denis McDonough, is closer to Obamaa situation that has sometimes raised questions about the relationship between Obama and Lipperts direct boss, national-security adviser Jim Jones.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; democrats; jimjones; lippert; mark; marklippert; nsc; obama
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First one to go. Question is why and how many more?
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posted on
10/01/2009 11:57:47 AM PDT
by
SDShack
To: SDShack
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:00:31 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Joe Wilson speaks for me.)
To: SDShack
Lippert is taking leave to rejoin the military as a Navy SEALthough theres no indication when hell return. Um...doesn't telling the entire world he is a Seal just make him useless as a Seal.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:03:07 PM PDT
by
txroadkill
( 9/12/2009 another win for the Gipper!)
To: SDShack
Wow, RATS already deserting a sinking ship?
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:04:03 PM PDT
by
mombonn
(God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
To: Yo-Yo
Our Armed Services are being infiltrated.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:04:14 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: SDShack
Considering how weak 0bama has been in the foreign policy department, I cannot conclude that this is really that big of a loss.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:06:11 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: SDShack
FWIW...Lippert was Obama's point man for Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
IF you believe Jerome Corsi:
Who is Mark Lippert?
IMHO, I have always found Corsi to be somewhat of a kook.
To: SDShack
Actually, I think this smells. He’s taking leave with the plan to possibly return? Would you want someone aboard ship or wherever you might be who is going to return to the staff of the worst and most anti-military CIC this country has probably ever seen? I need to know a lot more to see this as positive in any way.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:08:03 PM PDT
by
twigs
To: twigs
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:10:58 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat - Claire Wolfe)
To: SDShack
To: txroadkill
"Um...doesn't telling the entire world he is a Seal just make him useless as a Seal. " Lippert wasn't a SEAL, and won't be a SEAL. He was assigned to a SEAL unit as their intelligence officer when he spent some time on active-duty as a Naval Reserve officer.
Mr. Lippert is resume building for his own political aspirations, IMHO. And, this mis-information coming from a WH source, just proves that there's no one in Obama's administration that understands the difference between the Civil Air Patron and the US Air Force.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:12:43 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
To: SDShack
Is this related to the proposal to allow both sexes on our nuclear subs?
Cheers!
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:14:21 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: SDShack
..national-security adviser Jim Jones.
Mark Lippert didn't drink the kool-aide?
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:17:03 PM PDT
by
dancusa
(Czars Czuck)
To: SDShack
His foreign policy to date, has sucked.
Good riddance to the bad advise he has been getting.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:24:06 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: SDShack
rats leaving a sinking ship.....
To: Iron Munro
Doesn’t it sound like that? I guess it’s too soon to tell.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:37:44 PM PDT
by
twigs
To: OldDeckHand
From wiki:
Lippert grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Stanford where he received his degree in international relations.[1] He started out as a policy advisor to Senator Patrick Leahy and a Vermont political organizer. He worked for five years in the Senate Appropriations Committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee. He also handled foreign policy and defense issues for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. In 2005, he both became a senior foreign-policy aide to Senator Obama and joined the Navy Reserve. From 2007 until the summer of 2008, he served about a year[1] in what had been scheduled as a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq as an intelligence officer for the Navy SEALs; as of 2008[update] he is a lieutenant junior grade. He played a key role in Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
I agree. It sounds like he's gearing up for a political run.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:43:48 PM PDT
by
astyanax
(Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
To: SDShack
maybe he wants to help the unions take over the navy
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:52:36 PM PDT
by
dalebert
To: SDShack
“Lippert is taking leave to rejoin the military as a Navy SEALthough theres no indication when hell return.”
Based on the picture, I would say in about 60 pounds. I didn’t know the SEALS accepted communists, or do they have a French team.
To: SDShack
Obama Loses Key Foreign Policy Advisor Really? I didnt' hear about another Predator strike in Pakistan.
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posted on
10/01/2009 1:38:03 PM PDT
by
Pilsner
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