Posted on 11/24/2014 1:54:29 PM PST by Zakeet
President Obama will be naming his fourth secretary of defense in six years. Will he choose the first woman to run the Pentagon?
Even before Chuck Hagel's resignation from the Defense Department became official, the names of a pair of longtime Pentagon veterans had already surfaced as top contenders to replace him as secretary: Michele Flournoy and Ashton Carter.
Flournoy and Carter have been through this wringer before: Both were floated as possible Pentagon chiefs earlier in Obama's presidency, and both have served at the highest levels of the department. A third candidate, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, said through a spokesman on Monday he was not interested in the post.
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Jeb Bush
After thinking about for a moment while checking the dry heaves...
I would not be surprised at all...if Obama offered it to him...
Michelle J. Howard
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One of hussein’s extra special muzzy buds.
At this point in time it doesn't matter who the next Sec. of Defense is. The person who's selected will be too busy imposing Obama's and the Democrats' weird, bizarre social policies and experiments on the military and can't be bothered to defend the country.
So let it be Al Sharpton or Rosie O'Donnell or Obama's favorite boy toy from Man's Country.
Some Democrat that just lost an election.
My money is on Nidal Malik Hasan getting both a pardon and the job. He’s the perfect guy for Obama.
Which one? Raul or Fidel?
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