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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:10 PM
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Obama Nominates Republican Rep. McHugh to Be Secretary of Army
President Barack Obama nominated U.S. Representative John McHugh, Republican of New York, as secretary of the U.S. Army.

McHugh is the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, representing since 1993 a district in northern New York that includes Fort Drum, home to the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. He would replace Pete Geren.

Obama said he wants to include Republicans in his administration. He picked Republican Representative Ray LaHood as transportation secretary, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is a holdover from the Bush administration, and on May 17 he nominated Utah’s Republican Governor Jon Huntsman to be U.S. ambassador to China.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aURNY1Mon1o8&refer=us
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:15 PM
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1. I am totally nauseated!
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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:24 PM
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2. Doesn't look good for leaving Iraq any time soon.....
Afghanistan shaping up to be Obama's Viet Nam.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:36 PM
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3. Does Obama mistakenly believe that giving the GOP their wars
will appease them somehow?

He's a fool if he thinks that giving the Republicans ANYTHING wont just embolden them further because they'll think he's weak.
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