Obama Administration is sabotaged by Bush loyalists and war mongers...

[kentuck]

With General Betrayus down at Centcom calling all the shots in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the full support of Secretary of Defense Gates, we are bombing Pakistan almost daily. Commander in Chief Obama has been very busy trying to save our economy and our banking system as the Bush holdovers create more and more problems militarily for our country. The whole idea of keeping Petraeus and Gates in their positions seems to be fatally flawed.

Fortunately, the neo-con apologist, Judd Gregg, decided to drop out of the Administration. But, we still have Geithner, who helped Paulson create the bailout plan for the banks. In fact, he may have been the brains behind it all? Now he is the head of our Treasury Department. Obama is smart enough to know that he does not know everything and that some jobs have to be delegated. However, the holdovers now in charge should give all of us pause for concern.

[Eric J in MN]

1. When the bailout was first proposed by Henry Paulson,

...Obama implied that a condition of his support was that it wouldn't allow bailed-out executives would "have to forgo multi-million-dollar salaries."

Then Obama voted for the Bank Bailout Bill without any such provision.

Then Obama appointed Tim Geithner, who persuaded Congress to water down exectutive pay restrictions in the Stimulus Bill (such that the serious restrictions only apply to new hires.)