Posted on 10/08/2010 7:41:19 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
For a long time, Donilon lived his life from presidential campaign to campaign.
The Democratic operative worked on his first Democratic National Convention at 24, and hes been helping elect candidates ever since. He has worked for Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Joseph R. Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at whorunsgov.com ...
Gates was a colorless, second-banana bureaucratic hack of the first magnitude when Obama asked him to stay on.
Anyone who accepts and appointment and works for Obama with his well-known no-victory, anti-military, anti-troops DNA is a sell-out and toadie of the first magnitude.
I'll grant Gates a minimum of slack for his first year when he undoubtedly thought he could make a difference in something or other.....but to stay on and on after every single revelation about the Usurper indicates his bent for the destruction of America and it's national defense, THAT is indefensible.
Hic, haec, hac.....I was appointed, I stayed, I'm still a HACK and I'll keep collecting my substantial salary.
Leni
Just another member of “the family”.
It seems the Dems see the post as a plum for toadies, lickspittles, hacks....and criminals.
The Emperor just wants someone to tell him his clothes are beautiful.
... and known loyalists who will march into the NSC headquarters sensitive documents archive and take the original copies of all incriminating evidence out of the building hidden in their socks.
Exactly. So are the Czars.
Total family affair .. nepotism is alive and well in the Beltway.
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Donilon worked as a member of President Barack Obamas transition team, where he vetted potential State Department officials.Toner, Robin, “Race Is On For 1988’s Brightest and Brashest Consultants,” New York Times, May 31, 1987(1)Toner, Robin, “Race Is On For 1988’s Brightest and Brashest Consultants,” New York Times, May 31, 1987 Since then, he has become a key National Security Council aide, helping craft Obama’s temporary surge of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
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His brother is Michael C. Donilon, a counselor to Vice President Joseph R. Biden. His wife, Cathy Russell, is Jill Biden’s chief of staff.
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Thomas_Donilon
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