Jackson Jambalaya

Here are some nice comments from the Huffington Post about Obama's decision to retain current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates:

Nan2008 If Obama is the man for change, don't you think he should start by hiring HIS OWN. We want change not the SAME-O, SAME-O STUFF. And that means Nancy and Harry need to go as well. She tabled IMPEACHEMENT EARLY ON, WHEN DOES ACCOUNTABILITY START, IF NOT AT HOME WHERE AND WHEN? We elected him to do a job, if HE DOESN'T PERFORM AS WE ELECTED HIM TO DO HIS BUTT CAN FIND IT'S WAY OUT AS WELL. I don't care if he's the first Black President, he could be purple for all I care. The culture of corruption needs to end NOW, and the willingness to just go along is NOT ACCEPTABLE.

alainv If you havn't figured it out yet our elections are a sham and our presidents are simply figureheads for the military industrial complex and the corporate elite , otherwise known as the illuminate. Barrak was the best choice because he allows them to continue there agenda without fear of revolution witch may have ensued had the election gone the other way . These people are genious in there ability to know exactly how far they can go without a serious uprising by the masses of sheep who desperately want to believe that all is well .

SangZe I'm beginning to think we've been had once again.

thefed I voted for Obama and now I feel betrayed by his choices ...............I heard also that he is not closing gitmo and i feel if this happens ..........HE has not only conned us but betrayed the trust of the majority of the blacks who trusted and voted for the man who stood for change

piul05 Consistent with all the bad picks for foreign relations.No wonder Biden seems lost and without a role; everywhere he looks there is a militaristic hawk.Who's the next appointee? John Bolton?

InfoWarriorNY Obama has already killed the anti-war movement and the impeachment & accountability movement. These were conditions of the shadow gov't -- Peter Dale Scott's "deep state." Without his acquiescence to these (and a few others) the corporate controlled MSM would have annihilated his candidacy

geobushono Gates is BLOODY with the gore of the inconvient children he considers collateral damage. THAT is a big problem for me. How many warmongers, and right wing zealots are we going to have in this Cabinet?With all this effort with broad appeal, MY values are being cast aside to try to get another 2% in the 2012 Election.Send your checks to Riyad & Tel Aviv....they have The President's ear.

Nonamnesiac One can have a positive view of Gates only if one uses Rumsfeld as the yardstick. Gates is pro-torture, pro corruption (he's made no effort to recover the unaccounted for billions in Iraq and supports Blackwater and Haliburton unquestionably) and can be traced back to both the practice and the actual events of Iran/Contra.It's amazing to watch this guy Obama make choice-after-choice of the people who got us into the economic and international mess we're in and claim he's an agent of change. He's affirmed much of voodoo economics with the band of free-market, don't regulate choices he made for his economic team, many of whom personally helped transform the stupidity of Reaganomics from bad economics into a vehicle for them to personally become fabulously wealthy and then redefine policy to remove any obstructions to their becoming fabulously wealthy under the mantra of "deregulation". Even the so-called "bailouts" of the financial industry did not include enforced transparency, enforced accountability or any reregulation even though even Alan Greenspan admits that deregulation is a major cause of this calamity. But everyone's ready to trounce autoworkers because they bargained pensions and healthcare in a society that only provides a supplemtal pension (social security) and poverty-causing health care to its retirees if those workers had not negotiated pensions and health care.And now Gates, another let's-never-leave Iraq kind of guy. This is not change.

benndissed well ,i just got back from change. gov , and i feel better that i let barack know my disappointment in his hawkish picks for our nat. sec. team. i hope he listens and reconsiders. if not, i will campaign against confirmation for them. ending the war in iraq is one thing that doesn't need to be managed by those who supported and voted to authorize use of force there by bush.

LemonMeringue I too will give Obama the benefit of the doubt. However...We must hold him accountable. We will watch his back, but we will dog him and let him know what we, the people who elected him, want from this administration. I feel fortunate that a man such as he is willing to give up the life he knew to take on the hardest job in the world. I also believe that he owes us something. The peace movement worked very hard for him. The environmental movement worked very hard for him. The people who have been appalled at the abuses of the Bush administration worked hard for him. We worked hard for change and we expect to get it.

mach A bunch of Bush appointee apologists ---who'd of thunk it

FreedomUSA I want my old America back--shame on you Obama. You have duped many with your lies--"New Washington, new change." You seem to be a Washington conspiracy yourself.Wake up America!!!

Axlotl Hey, I have an idea; how about NO G*****N REPUBLICANS, or Republican appointees, in the new Democratic cabinet whatsoever?Screw this "bipartisan" stuff. Is he insane? If I wanted Republicans, Id' have voted for one, thank you very much.

larazon Bay Buchanan thinks Gates's a great pick. Maybe he can pick her as his WH spokesperson?

kentj All warmongers probably think Gates is a great pick. Why did we hold an election, when everything stays the same, especially that illegal and immoral Iraq war?

Alex02139 This is outrageous. I guess change we can believe in is nothing but a an empty slogan. Bush boy Gates, Bush boy Geithner, McCain boy Jones. Disgusting appeasement.

ProfessorGeorge First let me say that I enthusiastically supported Obama, but I sure hope that after what we've seen with the economic appointments and now Gates, that we all need to take our heads out of the sand and wake up to the fact that the love fest with Barack needs to come to an end fast. We progressives have had little to be overjoyed about and need to start putting the pressure on.

Steamboater Keeping Gates. What a mess. This is what you can expect from someone without cajones and it's going to happen again and again. We've already heard that Obama won't do anything, if he does anything at all, about DADT until 2010 and let the issue fester over and over until what happens will be another compromise. The war in Iraq and with Gates there especially will also fester. We're not getting out there. This whole election was sounds more and more like a scam every day.

Chillinout I don't know why Obama didn't nominate General MacAurthur, of Admiral Halsey. Nominating live people is NOT change I can believe in. I have already emailed the election board and told them I want my ballot back so I can change my vote. I suggest you all do the same

nogimmicks Sadly, appointment after appointment we see the same pattern.Obama = Bush (but younger and more eloquent). Policies and people are the same or worse (e.g. . Geithner could be worse than Paulson). Oh well, ... as the late George Carlin used to say "f*** hope".

biwee For someone who campaigned on "Change", it is strange to me that Obama's appointments are the same old, tired and ineffective retreads from past administrations. The "Change" was just a scam.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/19/robert-gates-obamas-defen_n_144874.html

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