Eisenhower, not Kennedy.
Admittedly, the first large scale deployment of troops happened under Kennedy, but Eisenhower was the guy who put us there in the first place.
Folks were hoping for the Secretary of Education, perhaps?
Speaking of which, I thought the cabinet members’ heads would be bigger.
And Johnson’s the one who REALLY screwed the pooch. (Gulf of Tonkin, anyone?)
There have been a few comparisons made between Obama’s choices and JFK’s cabinet. Salient points being that turning your cabinet into a think tank can have problematic results. Then again, the other extreme is just as bad.
The promising bit is that the Obamaniacs are pissed at not utterly dominating the cabinet. It’s shaping up in ways that neither party imagined.
Now Texas State University-San Marcos, home of the Fighting Bobcats. Check out the LBJ Library while you’re there, and try the funnel cake.
Uh huh. You do realize, of course, that I chose those schools because Presidents Carter, Johnson and Truman attended them.
Or maybe you didn’t realize that.
As a Republican I am impressed with his choices so far. Yes, even Hillary for Secretary of State. A good leader knows their limitations. Obama knows he lacks Military or foreign experience so he chose some competent people to serve for a while.
Sometimes it is all about leadership. Reagan knew this and surrounded himself with people who were intelligent.
Obama is perfect right now just like Reagan was after the Carter years. So far, I like him. I’ll be ducking Republican lightning bolts after this post. I hope you are happy.
Is there any reason to believe that Obama is ignoring the best people and choosing people from the right schools instead? If not, what’s the issue?
Cite? The people at Daily Kos seem fine with many of his choices, if not overly happy with a few.
School-tier diversity is about the last thing I care about in a presidential cabinet. It’d be odd if we got to the point where politicians felt obliged to pick someone from Bellevue Community College as their token non-elite-school guy. I think we can start worrying about that after we get our token (openly) gay, token Athiest, and token Muslim at around the SecDef/SecState level. Thankfully we’ve already filled our Token Black (shout out to Stan & Kyle) for this administration.
I read a few blogs from Iraq and Iran. They were pretty much saying when Obama got elected they expected business as usual. “A Family in Iraq” has an intelligent woman and her family who are involved in the business of trying to save Iraqis. She said before the election that she expected no difference, but when she heard Obama speak she began to change her mind. She did not hear blustering and threats. She heard an intelligent man careful about his words and doing his best not to be a threatening, blustering small thinking man like our last president. That gave her hope where there was none . I am less convinced but I am hopeful.
There is no issue. This is a tiny minority of people who are grasping for something, anything, with which to put Obama down.
OMG, he’s picking elitist snoberies for his cabinet posts!!!1111 Why don’t he pick someone who went to muh high school? Thinks he’s too good for us. That uppity… guy.
Considering that Obama’s nominee for Secretary of State has said similarly anti-intellectual bullshit, I wouldn’t say it’s just a problem with conservatives.
This could be true. I told my wife I would never vote for a black man for president, but then I thought John McCain was the black man and so voted for Obama by mistake. D’oh! :smack: I’ll bet this happened to a lot of voters.
Perhaps we could hold a Cabinet Draft, and have the [del]Commissioner[/del] Speaker of the House stand on stage and announce each appointee’s alma mater, position, and legislative statistics.
Cite?
I’m referring to her attacks on “elite opinion” and economists when she was proposing a gas tax holiday. Take your pick of cite.
Are people actually complaining that Obama is choosing people who are too intelligent? Does intelligent and well-educated automatically mean “out of touch with the common man”?
As opposed to that crowd of human rights abusers? Comb-lickers? Warmongers? Non-critical thinkers? Uncredentialled FEMA directors? Vindictive cover blowers? Mis-intelligence gatherers?
I will take my chances with change.
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This one asks smart questions
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When your opponent suggest that you should dumb down you choices you must assume that they don’t have the best of intentions towards you.
Either because you’ll make them look bad by contrasting the stupidity of their own ways or they’d rather see you flounder in a sea of ineptitude. Or both.