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Open Thread: To Be Always a Child

by: Dean Barker

Mon Aug 16, 2010 at 08:23:56 AM EDT
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.
From Tully. Loosely: Moreover, not to know what happened before you were born, this is to be always a child.

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Secretary Gates plans to retire in 2011 (4.00 / 1)
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/a...

While I disagree with many of the war policies of the two administrations he's served, I think Gates has been an excellent model of how a Cabinet official can serve in a non-partisan manner under a President of either party.  Ray LaHood is to be commended for that too, though DoT isn't as high profile as DoD.

That said, I think when he does leave, one of the many things President Obama should consider in picking a replacement is that it'd be nice, for once, to have a Secretary of Defense who is a Democrat with pre-established name recognition--if only to prove such a person can hold that job. Disagreements with war policy aside, the myth in politics that Republicans are the only ones who keep America safe needs to go away.

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Hope 2012

@DougLindner

Sidenote re: the GOP/national security myth (0.00 / 0)
If President Bush's wolves are such a threat, can't we just give Sarah Palin a helicopter to deal with them?

--
Hope 2012

@DougLindner

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Odd Note (0.00 / 0)
I had an odd note from some lady in Louisiana today. She wrote that she wished that I and the NHDP would die in a plane crash.

I had several reactions:
1. I felt sorry for her
2. I was irritated at Halloran and to a slightly lesser extent Rep. Horrigan
3.  Was angry at her
4.  Was bemused by the notepaper, it had an owl on it. Owls are a symbol of wisdom, also my mother liked owls, as she was a member of the organization of women legislators.
5. Wished I wasn't boarding a plane to go to a DNC meeting Wednesday.
6. Decided to post here and then move on.
 



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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