[Peace-discuss] meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[E. Wayne Johnson]

    Right-Wingers and Neocons Love Obama's Cabinet Appointments


          By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet
          Posted on November 30, 2008, Printed on December 2, 2008
          http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/www.alternet.org/109160/

 As Barack Obama's opus, */Team of Rivals/*, continues its rolling 
debut, the early reviews are in and the "critics" are full of praise for 
the cast:

"[T]he new administration is *off to a good start*."
-- /Senate Republican leader, *Mitch McConnell*/.

"*[S]uperb ... the best of the Washington insiders* ... this will be *a 
valedictocracy* -- rule by those who graduate first in their high school 
classes."
-- /*David Brooks*, conservative New York Times columnist/

"*[V]irtually perfect* ... "
-- /Senator* Joe Lieberman*, former Democrat and John McCain's top 
surrogate in the 2008 campaign./

"*[R]eassuring*."
-- /*Karl Rove*, "Bush's brain."/

"*I am gobsmacked by these appointments*, most of which *could just as 
easily have come from a President McCain* ... this all but *puts an end 
to the 16-month timetable for withdrawal from Iraq*, the unconditional 
summits with dictators, and other foolishness that once emanated from 
the Obama campaign ... [Hillary] Clinton and [James] Steinberg at State 
should be *powerful voices for 'neo-liberalism'* which is not so 
different in many respects from 'neo-conservativism.'"
-- /*Max Boot*, neoconservative activist, former McCain staffer./

"I see them as being sort of *center-right of the Democratic party*."
-- /*James Baker*, former Secretary of State and the man who led the 
theft of the 2000 election./

"*[S]urprising continuity on foreign policy* between President Bush's 
second term and the incoming administration ... certainly *nothing that 
represents a drastic change in how Washington does business*. The 
expectation is that *Obama is set to continue the course set by Bush* ... "
-- /*Michael Goldfarb* of the neoconservative Weekly Standard./

"I *certainly applaud* many of the appointments ... "
-- /Senator *John McCain*/

"*So far, so good*."
-- /Senator *Lamar Alexander*, senior Republican Congressional leader./

Hillary Clinton will be "*outstanding*" as Secretary of State
-- /*Henry Kissinger*, war criminal/

Rahm Emanuel is "*a wise choice*" in the role of Chief of Staff
-- /Republican Senator *Lindsey Graham*, John McCain's best friend./

Obama's team shows "*Our foreign policy is non-partisan.*"
-- */Ed Rollins/*/, top Republican strategist and Mike Huckabee's 2008 
campaign manager/

"*The country will be in good hands*."
-- /*Condoleezza Rice*, George W. Bush's Secretary of State/

/**/Team of Rivals/ will be playing all day, every day for at least the 
next four years**/

/Jeremy Scahill pledges to be the same journalist under an Obama 
administration that he was during Bill Clinton and George Bush's 
presidencies. He is the author of/Blackwater: The Rise of the World's 
Most Powerful Mercenary Army/ and is a frequent contributor to /The 
Nation/ and /Democracy Now!/ He is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at 
the Nation Institute./


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