Obama, Clinton Plan to Retrieve Ex-Envoys, Keep Bush Official

[laststeamtrain]

Obama, Clinton Plan to Retrieve Ex-Envoys, Keep Bush Official

By Viola Gienger and Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama and his designated secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, will pull veteran negotiators back into the ranks and keep at least two top Bush administration officials as they prepare to confront conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZYyMhgLdQcY&refer=us
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New slogans:

Change without all that messy change.

Stasis you can believe in.

No drama. No nothin'.

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[polichick]

1. "Change without all that messy change." LOL

[babylonsister]

2. Oh yea, let's pick a negotiator for the mideast

without a speck of experience. That would work.

[laststeamtrain]

3. There's experience & there's experience.

Here's an experience I don't think we need anymore of:

"After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ross supported the advocacy work of PNAC, a neoconservative-led letterhead group that advocated overthrowing Saddam Hussein in response to the attacks, even if he was not tied to the them.26 Ross signed two PNAC open letters on the situation in post-war Iraq, both published in March 2003. The first of these, “Statement on Post-War Iraq,” was issued on March 19, 2003, the day before the United States began its invasion. The letter argued that Iraq should be seen as the first step in a larger reshaping of the region’s political landscape, contending that the invasion and rebuilding of Iraq could “contribute decisively to the democratization of the wider Middle East.” Other signatories included Max Boot, Eliot Cohen, Thomas Donnelly, Joshua Muravchik, and several other core neoconservatives."
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/4786.html

[babylonsister]

5. I have got to believe there's a reason Obama is using him

as an envoy. None of us are privy to what's in Obama's head, but I maintain he needs people with experience.

And just as surely there will be people who squawk. That's okay, too, because at the end of the day he'll do what he thinks is the right thing.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Absolutely - we don't need Ross. A person tends to learn that someone

worked for Clinton and assumes he/she is acceptable. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! I don't get some of the stuff that going on/goind down.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Better clean up our own ranks first. Dennis Ross, Clinton adviser, is as wingnutty as they come.

National Security Council Persian Gulf Director Hillary Mann Leverett calls him "more neocon than Bush."

edited for link: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/fmr-nsc-official-clinton-advisors-more-neocon-than-bush/3721256980/?icid=VIDURVNWS09