Posted on 11/24/2014 12:11:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was fired by the Obama administration today.
The former senator is even too stupid for Obama.
Obama said Hagel had “been in the dirt” of combat like no other defense chief.
The New York Times reported:
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national security team to respond to an onslaught of global crises.
In announcing Mr. Hagel’s resignation from the State Dining Room on Monday, the president, flanked by Mr. Hagel and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., called Mr. Hagel critical to ushering the military “through a significant period of transition” and lauded “a young Army sergeant from Vietnam who rose to serve as America’s 24th secretary of defense.”
Mr. Obama called Mr. Hagel “no ordinary secretary of defense,” adding that he had “been in the dirt” of combat like no other defense chief. He said that Mr. Hagel would remain in the job until his successor is confirmed by the Senate.
Administration officials said that Mr. Obama made the decision to remove Mr. Hagel, the sole Republican on his national security team, last Friday after a series of meetings between the two men over the past two weeks.
The officials characterized the decision as a recognition that the threat from the militant group Islamic State will require different skills from those that Mr. Hagel, who often struggled to articulate a clear viewpoint and was widely viewed as a passive defense secretary, was brought in to employ.
Mr. Hagel, a combat veteran who was skeptical about the Iraq war, came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestrations.
Hagel blamed Obama in June for the controversial Bergdahl-Taliban swap.
And Kerry is any smarter?
I am not so sure that there are many who did.
Google: “Chuck Hagel voter fraud” to see what I mean.
65 years ago..., my Father told me... "If you lie with dogs, you'll arise with fleas (or worse)!!! It seems that DC Glamour erases common-sense in this respect!
You have to wonder how people keep from falling down laughing when she comes around.........
Hagel survived the dirt of combat but not the filth of the 0bama administration.
He made his bed, he laid down with dogs, now he’s got fleas.
He’s only out because bow-boy wanted to be the smartest man in the room!
Hagel was a Republican? Who knew...../sarc
Hagel was by no means the worst. I fear that who gets nominated next could be a total wrecking ball.
Pretty much after the last two football games, everyone in Nebraska is an embarrassment (in a different way of course)
:(
“B-1” Bob Dornan might be available. I liked him.
The late Eugene J. McCarthy was said to have felt the same way after LBJ passed him up for fellow MN liberal HHH.
Obama is now zero for three in choosing defense secretaries...he’d be benched as a kicker in almost any high school.
Nebraska has finally joined a conference where noone is intimidated by the name Nebraska....They are great, but just another team in the Big Ten!!!!!
Hapless Sad Sack Hagel......too stupid for even Obama!! LOL!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.