What Kind of Leadership Is This? Apparently, the GOP Still Controls Government in "Obama's" Administration
I'm especially sick and tired of DINOs dominating the Democratic Party.
It's a steady diet of spineless Democrats in "control" of Congress acting like Republicans and a nominal Democratic administration in the White House doing its best to cave to government of, by and for the wealthy few and right wing Republicans.
Obama's administration is filled with holdover Bushites, Republican lite Clintonites, and their ilk doing their best to make certain this presidency continues to be very little different than the appalling, damaging Reagan and Bush father and son debacles and that minority mind set Democrats continue being GOP lackeys.
I don't buy the ongoing claim that Obama is a victim. In fact, that's a damning defense.
It's Obama's fault. Most of his picks like Emanuel, Duncan, Gates, Holder, Geithner, Summers, etc. have been atrocious.
The unfortunate part is that either Obama was incompetent in selecting his team, or he only gives lip service to the Democratic Party's philosophy of government of, by, and for all the people and actually believes in the GOP corporate crony drivel that members of his administration spew and implement.
For example, when you leave Bushites still in charge of the Pentagon, this is what happens: you have right wing, neocon Bushite architects of the Iraq debacle, an invasion and occupation of Iraq based on lies, advising Obama's commander in Afghanistan.
And if that isn't enough to produce vomiting, the Department of Defense is still, thanks to Obama, headed by a Bushite, with a less than stellar record including involvement in the Irangate scandal, doing his darndest to maintain GOP control as in the following.
From Raw Story: "A key senior figure in a Bush administration covert Pentagon program, which used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage, remains in the same position today as a chief Obama Defense Department spokesman and the agency’s head of all media operations.
"In an examination of Pentagon documents the New York Times obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request — which reporter David Barstow leveraged for his April 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé on the program – Raw Story has found that Bryan Whitman surfaces in over 500 emails and transcripts, revealing the deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations was both one of the program’s senior participants and an active member.
"Barstow’s Times expose revealed a comprehensive, covert Pentagon campaign — beginning during the lead-up to the Iraq War and continuing through 2008 — that shaped network military analysts into what internal documents referred to as “message force multipliers” and “surrogates” who could be trusted to parrot Bush administration talking points “in the form of their own opinions.” Barstow’s reporting also detailed how most of the military analysts, traditionally viewed as authoritative and independent, had ties to defense contractors with a stake in the same war policies they were interpreting daily to the American public.
"Records reveal Bryan Whitman as an ever-present force in the retired military analyst program, whether utilizing the analysts to push back against negative news coverage on insufficient body armor for soldiers, the abuse of detainees, setbacks in Iraq, and other incidents and war policies.
"In David Barstow’s Times expose, a prime example of how the Pentagon “enlisted analysts as a rapid reaction force to rebut” unfavorable coverage was illustrated in an email sent by “a senior Pentagon official” after news broke that troops in Iraq were dying because they had received insufficient body armor: “I think our analysts – properly armed – can push back in that arena.”
"That senior Pentagon official, documents show, was Bryan Whitman."
My God, this administration is dense!
Again, what is President Obama thinking? This is not leadership or change....it's more of the same crap.
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