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From the LA Times:
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- Karl Rove On Obama
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Antiwar groups fear Barack Obama may create hawkish Cabinet
From the LA Times:
Reporting from Washington -- Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.
The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for top security posts backed the decision to go to war."Obama ran his campaign around the idea the war was not legitimate, but it sends a very different message when you bring in people who supported the war from the beginning," said Kelly Dougherty, executive director of the 54-chapter Iraq Veterans Against the War.
The activists -- key members of the coalition that propelled Obama to the White House -- fear he is drifting from the antiwar moorings of his once-longshot presidential candidacy. Obama has eased the rigid timetable he had set for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and he appears to be leaning toward the center in his candidates to fill key national security posts.
The president-elect has told some Democrats that he expects to take heat from parts of his political base but will not be deterred by it.
Those of us who don't much like Obama, because we took him at his word during his candidacy, must wonder why he is suddenly looking like a centrist. Is it because he truly intends to govern from a center-right position, or is it simply that he is going where the experience lies in appointing people to his Cabinent?
- Doom
Panetta to head the military? Really? Yahoo: Panetta to head Pentagon, Petraeus CIA WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate CIA director Leon Panetta as defense secretary, resetting his national security team ahead of the 2012 presidential...
- Mrs Sustein May Be The Next Secretary Of State
All bad, all around. Nothing good can come of this. Irish Central: Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State? Irish-born adviser now key to Obama foreign policy By CATHY HAYES A flattering New York Times profile has increased speculation that Samantha...
- Karl Rove On Obama
Flip-Flops and Governance Our president isn't quite as advertised. By KARL ROVE Barack Obama inherited a set of national-security policies that he rejected during the campaign but now embraces as president. This is a stunning and welcome about-face....
- Israel To Warn Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama is scheduled to be here on Tuesday in a visit that is designed mostly to convince American voters that he has 'foreign policy experience.' Obama will meet with Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert,...
- Guess Who Arab Americans Support For President?
I'll give you one guess (from Yid With Lid): Poll: 'Overwhelming' support for Obama among Arab Americans MICHAL LANDO, New York , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 14, 2008 Arab Americans remain steadfast in their support for Democratic presidential...