[Zakeet]

For some mysterious reason, Gates thinks the Royal Oaf is a clueless idiot!

[Da Coyote]

Here’s a quickie summary:
1. Obama is unbelievably stupid.
2. Obama is unbelievably dishonest.
3. Obama is unbelievably corrupt.
4. Obama is unbelievably uneducated.
5. Obama is unbelievably lazy.
6. Obama has contributed less to the country than ANY military man or woman...none of whom respects the miserable piece of excrement.

There, quick, easy, and the ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

[rarestia]

None of this is really a surprise to me, but hearing it being said is refreshing. Further, and on a tangentially unrelated note, I believe the term “neo-con” is overused, as is typical of most liberal linguistics.

[TexasCajun]

#11 - The most powerful person in the White House is not who you think!

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[Rockitz]

Here’s what I got from this.

BHO = all politics, all the time and much more involved than he lets on. He’s definitely impeachable based on these revelations.

Gates = CYA memoir, incompetent, should have quit in protest much sooner, but needed the job.

Biden = As advertised.

[LibertarianLiz]

3. Suspicion of White House Control Mr. Gates described the White House and its national security team as too controlling and says that he found himself at odds with Mr. Obama’s inner circle. At one meeting in the Oval Office in 2011, Mr. Gates said he considered resigning because of the White House micromanagement and strategy. “I never confronted Obama directly over what I (as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta and others) saw as his determination that the White House tightly control every aspect of national security policy and even operations,” Mr. Gates writes. “His White House was by far the most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost” in the 1970s.

Is it just me, or does this, kind of, destroy his "I know nothing" defense as regards the NSA spying scandal?

[7thson]

Two things stand out for me. One is this “There is no son of a bitch in the world who can talk to me like that,” he writes of his fantasy. And yet they did talk to him like that and he took it, over and over. His job and perks were more important to him than his integrity, which I believe he severely lacks.

The other is this - “His White House was by far the most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost” in the 1970s. I was under the naive assumption that DoD, DoS, et al., worked for the President. The White House. In my mind, regardless of which party controls the Presidency, this has been a long standing problem – the various departments within the Executive Branch feel free to do whatever the hell they want to do without bothering to listen/pay attention to the White House.

One last thing is this - Mr. Gates writes that his reputation for having an even temper often masked his outrage and contempt. “I did not enjoy being secretary of defense,” he writes. And yet he never left. I guess it is hard to give up that salary and other DoD perks. What a low-life hypocrite.

[MestaMachine]

In case you missed it.

This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.

[mmichaels1970]

Just read the highlights and it sounds more like “Clinton/Gates ‘16” to me.

[matthew fuller]

mark for later.

[canuck_conservative]

In one meeting, Mr. Gates says that he challenged Mr. Biden and Thomas Donilon, then Mr. Obama’s deputy national security adviser, when they tried to pass orders to him on behalf of the president. “The last time I checked, neither of you are in the chain of command,” Mr. Gates says he told the two men. Mr. Gates said he expected to deal directly with the president on such orders.

As more and more info comes out, I think the public will find this Administration more idiotic than anyone ever thought possible. This is just the tip of the incompetence iceberg!

This Gates book actually looks kind of interesting, read the whole article.

[matthew fuller]

Gates has a runaway best seller on his hands. He WILL be audited by IRS.

[Albion Wilde]

“Much of my conflicts with the Obama administration during the first two years weren’t over policy initiatives from the White House but rather the NSS’s micromanagement and operational meddling,” he writes. “For an NSS staff member to call a four-star combatant commander or field commander would have been unthinkable when I worked at the White House – and probably cause for dismissal. It became routine under Obama.”

As for the editorializing surrounding the quotes from the book: who wrote that -- characterizations like "contempt" and "hate" -- Axelrod? Holder? Jarrett? Carney?

[what's up]

I think Gates is a Dem.

This is why I think he doesn't go so far as to trash Hillary...as a Dem he's likely hoping for a Hillary presidency.

Ugh ugh and ugh.

[Cyber Liberty]

The more I read of this book from Gates, the less I respect him...and I never thought very highly of him to begin with. Yes, he’s saying things we already know about the Child King, but he enabled that brat.

[dfwgator]

Day late and a dollar short.