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• Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:43 AM

  Glenn

  While it is easy to view Obama's cabinet nominations especially the national security and economic team on a comparative basis with Bush appointments, could you not have put it in context on the fact that it is Bush and his ideology that actually determine the path these cabinet members take? For example, According to the then Treasury Secretary O'Neil, even before Al Qaeda struck, they were thinking about Iraq and Bush's obsession with the fact that Sadam wanted to kill his father. Had that obsession not happened, will we have been to Iraq with all its consequences against which we now view Bush and his cabinte appointments in a fundamentally hostile way?

  It is the leader who sets the goal and the vision and whether it takes centrists or those on the right of Obama to implement it inorder to mute the criticism had he chosen all liberals or those on the left to implement that, so be it. Let us wait and see what happens Glenn; you are giving in too much to the same unaccountable beltway media elites whose opinions and opearations you have excellently been exposing.

  Nobody determines the standards for pardons which are given to those convicted of crimes and singling out Marc Rich's or whatever as the most egregious is simply political posturing and buying into right-wing crap. Go back to pardons by Presidents and one can find as many depending on your politics to feed upon. Using it to derail Holder appointment as some Republicans and some media elites seem to suggest is childish.

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