Does President Obama’s White House need more governing professionals and fewer political hacks? Forbes columnist Dan Gerstein thinks so, suggesting Obama invite an “independent-thinking Democratic wise man like Bob Kerrey” aboard. Survey the president’s advisers, Gerstein wrote, and “what’s missing from this group, besides diversity of experience and interests, is a senior adviser or two with an independent point of view who could carry Obama’s post-partisan portfolio. Someone who would wake up every day thinking about how to form broad-based coalitions, to deepen the confidence and trust of independents and non-rabid Republicans in government, and push Obama to honor his promise to change politics-as-usual in Washington. Or at minimum, someone not ingrained or trained to think that the Republicans are the enemy.”
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How many of obama’s staff have left or been asked to leave?
“Or at minimum, someone not ingrained or trained to think that the Republicans are the enemy”
That would be too nonpartisan
Obviously Gerstein and Forbes are racist. No interviews for you.
they are old rich white men. Unfit for today’s society.
“… to deepen the confidence and trust of non-rabid Republicans in government”?
And just where might those people be?
The whole CON machine is based on attacks — personal attacks — against the President.
You mean personnel attacks?
Good insight Mr Kia. Monkey – bless your little heart. His entire staff reads like Chicago Politico. He has some of the most radical advisors ever. This keeps him from being taken seriously and having the best interest of the nation at heart.
Anita Dunn, Van Jones – just two that should never have been on staff. The purge goes on.
http://www.greenforall.org/
Cosmos are you well paid to follow the GW posts here – and even ones that have absolutely nothing to do with GW? You seriously need to get a life and quit trying to dictate to everyone else what they should do and think.
okobserver,
What was so radical about Anita Dunn?
I have but two thing to add at this point”
BHO = Worst President Ever!
cosmos = boooooring! Got those nerd-protectors in place cosmos?
And how was she ‘purged?’
Moa
or Mao
“Or at minimum, someone not ingrained or trained to think that the Republicans are the enemy.”
Republicans ARE the enemy. The last thing the base will tolerate is President Obama pandering to the very people who made all our problems. Republicans don’t WANT Government to work and do their level best to work against efficient and effective Government every chance the get.
So don’t give them any chances. They have nothing to add that is not self motivated.
okobserver,
You should stop attacking people who are trying to make the world a better place.
http://www.greenforall.org/
She was purged by Mao? Mao’s been dead since ‘75, man.
“Someone who would wake up every day thinking about how to form broad-based coalitions.”
Yeah let’s ask a weasel and a couple of foxes their input running the hen house while we are at it.
She was purged by Mao?
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I don’t think so.
What was so radical about Anita Dunn?
And how was she ‘purged?’
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She purged herself in her stated admiration of a politician who ordered the killing of no less than millions of his countrymen to gain and sustain power.
But you already know that.
So I’m guessing in questioning it, you agree with it?
“Dunn has worked for Obama since early 2008, and the video is from June 5, so this isn’t some archival footage from decades ago that’s being used now to make Obama look bad. (Media Matters says this was a speech to high school graduates.) It’s quite simply stupidity or cluelessness on Dunn’s part. She could have cited an untold number of sources for her banal words of wisdom—essentially, think for yourself and make your own way—and yet she drew her inspiration from the man who’s responsible for the deaths of 40 million to 70 million people.”
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Daniel you really aren’t as clueless as you try to show yourself to be are you?
She is a symbol of the type of person Obama has surrounded himself with. When he told us to judge him by the company he keeps he really should have tried to keep better company.
There’s no such thing as a “non rabid Republican”.
Mr_Kia
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:01 pm | Permalink
What was so radical about Anita Dunn?
And how was she ‘purged?’
-Daniel
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She purged herself in her stated admiration of a politician who ordered the killing of no less than millions of his countrymen to gain and sustain power.
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You mean that speech she made to the High School graduating class? Ha! Funny thing is that she mentioned Mao and Mother Teresa in the same breath so you’d think those two would cancel out.
Also, sometimes when a speaker is trying to make a point they will mention or quote two figures that you wouldn’t normally associate but happened to have the same idea or philosophy some narrow area of agreement.
For example, you wouldn’t normally associate Mother Teresa and Mao but they both espoused the idea that one must choose their own tactics and own them, stick with them despite what one’s opposition may or may not do.
It’s called ‘juxtaposition’ and it’s a common rhetorical device. You should look it up.
Will the bu++hurt ever be soothed?
Satatom you might be one of the reasons this prez is know as a ‘do nothing’ prez. The only accomplishments he can point to are not good ones for the country at large.
Republicans have a lot of ground to make up in the 2010 elections and it is statements like your that will make that possible.
Moderation is the name of the game. We need a team that can work together to actually accomplish something.
The healthcare bill passed in a partisan fashion with democrats hollering ‘victory’. This bill now goes to the senate where republicans holler ‘defeat’. Who is the loser here. That would be the American people.
We elected representatives to work together for the common good of our country and if this crew can’t do that then we can fix it in the next election.
Daniel that is a stretch even for you. Which part of ‘he is a philosopher I admire’ didn’t you understand.
If I mention arsenic and baby powder in the same breath then that makes arsenic harmless because….
Put down the shovel and step away.!.
okobserver
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:08 pm | Permalink
She could have cited an untold number of sources for her banal words of wisdom—essentially, think for yourself and make your own way—
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Same answer to you as to Mr_Kia, look up the term ‘juxtaposition.’
So that’s a Yes?
You agree with her?
I don’t know how you refer to a murderer of millions as a philosopher. Or refernce them as a favorite. The only thing right thinking people would do in quoting such a man would be in demonstration of what not to do.
okobserver
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
Daniel that is a stretch even for you. Which part of ‘he is a philosopher I admire’ didn’t you understand.
If I mention arsenic and baby powder in the same breath then that makes arsenic harmless because….
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You don’t seem to understand this concept. How would you connect arsenic and baby powder? And the goal isn’t for one term to mitigate the use of the other.
Nice words ksgrm but you have proven time and again that you are one of the rabid Republicans who wants Obama to fail no matter what the cost.
Your insincerity reeks of the sewer.
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Mr_Kia
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
So that’s a Yes?
You agree with her?
I don’t know how you refer to a murderer of millions as a philosopher. Or refernce them as a favorite. The only thing right thinking people would do in quoting such a man would be in demonstration of what not to do.
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Was there a question posed somewhere along the way that I overlooked?
Juxtaposition – Daniel
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If it came from the Administration vs. you I might believe it.
BlueJay
Posted November 10, 2009 at 3:59 pm | Permalink
“Someone who would wake up every day thinking about how to form broad-based coalitions.”
Yeah let’s ask a weasel and a couple of foxes their input running the hen house while we are at it.
So your saying that only Republicans? Please don’t tell me you are that stupid. In washington it doesn’t matter what party you are, it only matters who is lobbying. Not a single person in congress or the house give 2 Chits what you or I think about anything. As long as you pay your taxes. You don’t get into politics now to help out your country, you get into politics to get rich. Get a clue
Daniel appears to be “bu++hurt”.
You mean that speech she made to the High School graduating class? Ha! Funny thing is that she mentioned Mao and Mother Teresa in the same breath so you’d think those two would cancel out.
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Well Daniel, in my mind, it’s OK to study the tactics of scoundrels. Mao, Hitler, Stalin were all successful. Unfortunately they were evil. We can still learn from them.
But to mention Mao as a political role model to a high school class was exactly the wrong thing to do and shows again how out of touch Obama’s leftist appointees seems to be.
Mr_Kia
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
I don’t know how you refer to a murderer of millions as a philosopher.
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The term philosopher is a neutral term. Why do you assume that it has a positive connotation?
Confucius was a philosopher, Marx was a philosopher, GWB referred to Jesus Christ as a philosopher, Hitler espoused a political and social philosophy.
You shouldn’t assume the use of the word as being praise or an insult.
You sure seem to have spent a lot of energy getting upset over something you seem to understand very little about.
Mosin Nagant rifle
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Is that a Russian 8mm?
My knowledge of military rifles is limited.
Poop, wrong thread.
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Mr_Kia
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink
If it came from the Administration vs. you I might believe it.
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If what came from the Administration, this explanation? Why should they bother? I think they have wisely written off the 21% who will be upset by this idiocy. I’m just trying to make some conversation and maybe spread a little knowledge along the way.
How about tax dodgers as well as political
But Obama’s West Wing is devoid of governing wise men (think Leon Panetta for Bill Clinton, James Baker for the first George Bush and Clark Clifford for multiple Democrats).
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That quote from the article is pretty much accurate.
O’BAMA and staff just reference the Alinksy handbook of dirty tricks and then use spin, deceipts, lies and closed doors for their policies.
O’BAMA
Worst
President
Ever
okobserver
Posted November 10, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
Daniel that is a stretch even for you. Which part of ‘he is a philosopher I admire’ didn’t you understand.
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That is not an accurate quote.
Obama has still a lot of charisma going for him though even the foreign press is now a bit leery of their former lavish praise. When the Homeland Secretary made visits to both Mexico and Canada she upset everyone with her vast ignorance of both borders’ concerns for she lumped them both in the same basket. I loved this item of a few month ago in the G&M. Seems the guy he appointed Ambassador to Canada was his NUMBER TWO Chicago bag man during Obama’s election campaign. The G&M mused the 2 Ambassadors under “W” had been former State Governors with much legislative and political experiences, able to comprehend and sometimes tweak the cumbersome morass of international politics. Evidently the G&M would have been happier with at the least his NUMBER ONE Chicago bagman, but they now accept their relative importance in the overall scheme of things. Honest!!!!
It’s about 8 yrs. too late to talk of bipartisanship and reaching across the isle, you might lose a hand if you try.
Newt used a Mao quote in the house chambers, appropriate? Does that make him a Maoist?
The quote was something like “Politics is war without blood, war is politics with blood”
Obama thinks he is still God and still on the campaign trail. He has more power he wishes to establish for himself and has competely forgotten or never known that he is to govern as a statesman for America.
Not as an Obamaian or democrat.
Hey Phantom!! Throw me another M1A1 tank, wouldja?
(snort, snort)
Remember you have plenty of “clips”……
:)
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Phantom
Posted November 10, 2009 at 6:50 pm | Permalink
Newt used a Mao quote in the house chambers, appropriate? Does that make him a Maoist?
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Maoist? No.
It makes him something even worse to the St. Sarah wing of the GOP…a RINO!
How about too socialist? too communist? too tyranical? If it was just too political, that’s minor!
I’m coming after you and all your nics James.