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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I bet it's either the Moose or the Squirrel!
Obama will just like Hitler
There goes our Sec. Def. folks, Ol’ Chuck “Foster Brooks’’ Hagel. Take a bow Chuck. Between you and your former boss the world is more f**ked up then it ever was. Thanks Big Guy. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
I would wait until we see who will become POTUS at noon on January 20, 2017.
I would recommend the Senate not confirm any new SecDef and to make Obama keep Hagel as SecDef until Obama goes back to Honolulu or Chicago.
Who replaces Hagel?! Stupid question. Another unqualified, anti American, Marxist, dweeb d-bag. Who else?
It won't be a white, male, you can count on that.
Who would want to?
Its his time, fool.
John Kerry is an obvious choice. Also, he served in Vietnam.
They’ll have to pull Panetta back out of retirement.
No one else can get confirmed at this point.
My vote is for Natasha Fatale...
Seriously, Obama will nominate someone very distasteful to the GOP senate. They will not give their advise and consent( which is their right) and he will appoint anyway (which is his right in this case).
That will further cement the notion that 1) the GOP is obstructionist and 2)he has the power to act when Congress won’t.
This was long planned when he named a RINO as SecDef and one who is a total idiot. He was the perfect fall guy for when the time came as well as complicit in the tearing down of the military.
Bowe Bergdahl?
They will have a brown ring around their neck.
Mitt Romney is rumored to be 0bam’s favorite.
The Jarrett Administration found out Benedict Arnold was dead, so they’ll probably have to go with Bill Ayres.
Nice one!
She's French, so what could go wrong there?
And he was Demi Moore's boy toy, right?
The most unqualified, obnoxious, defeated democrat.
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