Susan Rice Don't Want the Gig

[tinselwolverine]

Just in now.

 

[tsmith7559]

John Kerry is up

 

[Slick]

Rice will get National Security Advisor....more power , more politics in the position.....not sure why she was even floated for SoS , its well known fact she doesn't play well with others....also cant wait to see him niminate Chuck Hagel for Def Sec...a Repub who ran as far away from John McCain as he could in 2008

 

[tinselwolverine]

Rice will get National Security Advisor....more power , more politics in the position.....not sure why she was even floated for SoS , its well known fact she doesn't play well with others....also cant wait to see him niminate Chuck Hagel for Def Sec...a Repub who ran as far away from John McCain as he could in 2008

If not running at all means running as far away from McCain as he could then, yes; he ran as far away from McCain as he could.

Hagel announced he wouldn't be seeking a third term in the Senate in the late summer of 2007, long before McCain won the Republican nomination.

He completed his 2nd term in January of 2009 and is currently a Professor at Georgetown.

Hagel was the lone Senate Republican who voted against authorizing Bush to use military force in Iraq.

 

[Michchamp]

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Hagel was the lone Senate Republican who voted against authorizing Bush to use military force in Iraq.

i didn't know that.

was watching a documentary on the US escalation of the vietnam war called "In the Year of the Pig" last week. it featured interviews with a lot of people, as well as public statements from Nixon, JFK, LBJ, McNamara, etc. also Senator Thruston B. Morton, speaking about how he viewed the escalation as an example of the military industrial complex run amok, and scoffed at the grounds for intervention trotted out at the time (Domino theory, spreading democracy in Vietnam, etc.). I was surprised to learn he was a republican from Kentucky, given his views and how candid he was at expressing them (documentary came out in '68)

was wondering if we saw any GOP opposition to "Bush's vietnam" in '02-'03. I couldn't remember any.

so good for Chuck Hagel. Guessing NBC, ABC, Fox, etc. weren't inviting him on to discuss his views back then as they were beating the war drums...

 

[Slick]

If not running at all means running as far away from McCain as he could then, yes; he ran as far away from McCain as he could.

Hagel announced he wouldn't be seeking a third term in the Senate in the late summer of 2007, long before McCain won the Republican nomination.

He completed his 2nd term in January of 2009 and is currently a Professor at Georgetown.

Hagel was the lone Senate Republican who voted against authorizing Bush to use military force in Iraq.

Hagel was open to the VP slot on the O ticket in 2008 , which pissed McCain off.....it's what I meant.

 

[tinselwolverine]

so good for Chuck Hagel. Guessing NBC, ABC, Fox, etc. weren't inviting him on to discuss his views back then as they were beating the war drums...

Maybe he was invited on; maybe not.

More importantly, wait for my next response to the 'evilness" of the Koch brothers when they

1)support gay marriage

2) support signifinant decriminilization of drug laws

3) Fought against the Patriot act

4) were opposed to both middle eastern wars

5) Opposed the Presidency of George W. Bush (David Koch specifically ran against the Bush ticket as the Vice-Presidential candidate on a 3rd party ticket in 1980)...

Then...the furr is going to fly...my friend...

 

[tinselwolverine]

i didn't know that.

was watching a documentary on the US escalation of the vietnam war called "In the Year of the Pig" last week. it featured interviews with a lot of people, as well as public statements from Nixon, JFK, LBJ, McNamara, etc. also Senator Thruston B. Morton, speaking about how he viewed the escalation as an example of the military industrial complex run amok, and scoffed at the grounds for intervention trotted out at the time (Domino theory, spreading democracy in Vietnam, etc.). I was surprised to learn he was a republican from Kentucky, given his views and how candid he was at expressing them (documentary came out in '68)

was wondering if we saw any GOP opposition to "Bush's vietnam" in '02-'03. I couldn't remember any.

so good for Chuck Hagel. Guessing NBC, ABC, Fox, etc. weren't inviting him on to discuss his views back then as they were beating the war drums...

Wow.

Holy fuck.

Really?

Fucking realy?

Lots of Republicans/conservatives opposed the war.

George Will opposed the war. The current republican governor of Ohio* John Kasich (then Fox News Contributor, and a long time GOP Congressman) opposed the war. William F. Buckley opposed the war. Not surprisingly Pat Buchanan opposed the war; Joe Scharborough opposed the war.

Obviouusly Ron Paul opposed the war.

I saw this GOP/conservative opposition to the war. with these high ranking Replican right wing pols right on my TV - right on on regular media - Kasich was opposing the war right on Fox News, for God Sakes!!

I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed you didh't know that Hagel was the lone Rebuclican Senator who opposed authorization for the war; and you probably didn't know that Hagel served to Senator and Presidential Candidate Obama as a foreign affairs/national security advisor on the Obama campaign.

That said, I expect that I will get over it.