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Well, I think Obama's appointments do tell us a little bit Obama but I think they tell us what we already knew. Obama is a very careful, don't-rock-the-boat, establishment centrist with perhaps mildly liberal leanings but with no ideological predilections strong enough that he would take any political chances fighting for them.
In the midst of the wideranging praise for Bob Gates am I the only one who worries that he was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal that set one of the templates for unitary executive assertions of executive power as well as providing training ground for traitorous scum like Elliot Abrams and John Poindexter (not to mention Gates himself)?
Its just another piece in the as yet admitedly very incomplete jigsaw puzzle that consistently suggests that Obama will do nothing to counteract the dangerous precedents of the Bush Administration.
Maybe Obama will surprise me, but I doubt it.
