And we should attack later. In this case… Obama is nothing but MORE OF THE SAME.

His promised CHANGE is just an election rhetoric.

We can only credibly say that if Obama successfully installs Panetta starting January 25.

Francis- Obama doesn’t have to understand what Government actually does as he has plans to change the definition into a whole new meaning which will fit his agenda. He has nothing to learn from the past, as we have never been a Socialist form of government before.

Well, now yer just talkin’ CRAZY talk! An EXPERIENCED president? Well, I never.

So after eight years of screaming that the Bush Administration was using the CIA and its intelligence for political purposes, the Obama Administration decides, essentially:

“It’s really OK, as long as it’s for OUR political purposes.

So he installs a pure wonk, a Washingtonian steeped in nothing more than inside-the-Oval-Office politics as Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Even his Wikipedia entry testifies to how unqualified he is: it’s barely a page long and mostly consists of places and people he’s worked for.

This, to me, signals a couple of things:

1) Barack Obama intends to blatantly politicize the intelligence community in America, and use it strictly for political purposes.

2) Perhaps since Panetta’s most notable career accomplishment was (in terms of the Wikipedia article) standing up to Richard Nixon regarding the enforcement of the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act, maybe this means that we can now expect the CIA to be involved in enforcing them.

3) Since he was politically opposed to offshore oil drilling in California, perhaps as the Director of the CIA he will take it to the next level and use covert operatives to sabotage oil rigs run by companies he doesn’t like off the coastlines of America.

4) By choosing someone so obviously ill-suited to the job of leading Agency, I can only guess that Barack Obama intends to gradually erode the morale and the competence of the intelligence community in America, prior to sweeping it into the dustbin of history.

would a person be hired/appointed to a position of which they know nothing about? But then, it has already happened with the highest office in the land.

He did it to avoid the backlash from the New York Times and human rights pressure groups.

Period.

Obama intends to hand the CIA to a guy with no specific intelligence background because he wants to curry favor with human rights organizations and the liberal members of the press.

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You will have to forgive me if I find having a member of Clinton’s administration anywhere near intelligence an offensive act. Why? Well these are the same people that were dissmissive of AQ and OBL in the entire run-up to 9-11. Then, true to form, made everyone else a scapegoat when 3,000 people died.

Having Sandy Berger’s lunch partner as DCI is probably one of the worst, despicable choices I could imagine. It is also another reason this incoming administration should be called “Clinton II; The Final Destruction”.

…. the NYT, and this is what I found.

In disclosing the selection, Democratic officials said Mr. Panetta’s gravitas and ties to Mr. Obama would give the C.I.A. a powerful voice within the administration, particularly in bureaucratic jockeying with the Pentagon, which has a much bigger budget and more bureaucratic clout.

So “gravitas” and “ties to Obama” qualifies one to lead one of the most important national security entities in the US? I am prohibited from typing what I want to here because of the “No Profanity” instruction. Oh wait, I’m sorry - I missed this one - he also has “managerial skills”. I didn’t realize the ability to plop one’s butt in a desk chair so it doesn’t float away qualified one to head an intelligence organization.

But wait, there’s more:

An early test in Mr. Panetta’s tenure at the C.I.A. would be to determine the future of the agency’s detention and interrogation program.

“Those who support torture may believe that we can abuse captives in certain select circumstances and still be true to our values,” he wrote in The Washington Monthly last year. “But that is a false compromise.” He also wrote: “We cannot and we must not use torture under any circumstances. We are better than that.”

So the truth starts to emerge. This was potentially a bone thrown to H’s far left critics who say they haven’t been represented. Panetta’s in there to eliminate torture. What a wonderful top priority for an intelligence-gathering body. We see evidence here:

Some human rights groups praised the choice. Elisa Massimino, executive director of Human Rights First, said it was important that the new C.I.A. director be someone “who recognizes that torture is illegal, immoral, dangerous and counterproductive.

Shocker.

Obama was going to CHANGE Washington, and bring newness to it?! Here is a good quote from the Bloomberg article:

Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the intelligence panel, said Panetta is a “savvy” Washington veteran who can change the agency.

Savvy Washington veteran, eh? Well, there are all of a sudden a whole lot of Washington Veterans getting appointed to some positions and the winds of change are being replaced by the winds of adminstrations past!

is all that will result.
The gains of the terrorist fight will be wiped away in ONE day.
One day is all it will take for Obama to say “come on in and do what
you want” - because this is the opening the terrorists have been waiting for. The left just does not get it. All the procedures & policies were set up to get bad guys. And it has worked. Why would Obummer pick a no nothing about intelligence to run an intelligence agency? Because Obummer has no intelligence, he is a political creature and will be eaten alive by the rest of the world.

Unbelievable, the utter nitwits and America haters set to run this country shortly. Every buffoon already proven to be incapable of governing and having no relationship with intelligence (in all meanings of the word) is amassed into a group that will go down in history.

I’m now utterly convinced only something truly catastrophic can right our ship, because as a nation we have utterly lost our way. God knows how many will be lost. This Clinton Admin III will take us a long way toward that catastrophe if not bring it about altogether.

Historians will marvel at the mindlessness of this age.

as a student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He and Daschle were there trolling for military officers who would say something bad about the Bush administration and its conduct of the war. He didn’t get many takers.

He told us that he started a foundation to encourage young people to get into public service, because so few young people seemed interested in being congressional pages and growing up to be legislators these days. I told him that if he really wanted to meet American kids whose hearts were set on public service he should visit Iraq. There are thousands of them there.

I don’t think he considers military members as being involved in public service. What more do we need to know?

He has dedicated himself to stopping torture, and everyone knows the CIA is the source of all torture. By putting Panetta in charge, the torture will finally end.

Ronald Reagan said it best, “The problem is so much of what [our] opponent[s] know, simply isn’t true”

Says who?

(thanks izoneguy…i’ve been waiting for an opening for this pic..lol)