Nutty left already riled up
Monday, December 1, 2008 at 07:55PM It only took the nutty left four weeks to work themselves into a tizzy over President-Elect Obama's cabinet selections.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, dropped this little stink bomb in Obama's lap today regarding the appointment of Gates and Clinton.
Seems like the far left has a limitus test for cabinet appointments: they must have opposed the war.
"Maybe being right about the greatest foreign policy disaster in US history doesn't mean much inside the Beltway," writes Vanden Heuvel. "How else to explain that not a single top member of Obama's foreign policy/national security team opposed the war--or the dubious claims leading up to it?"
I dunno. Maybe Obama is a pragmatist, and realizes that summarily withdrawing troops while we're so close to the finish line makes no sense. Or perhaps it's a tacit admission that his anti-war posturing was simply that -- political posturing -- and that Iraq actually requires a much more nuanced approach. Or maybe he just doesn't like the loony left. Who knows. But I'd rather seem him evolve beyond campaign platitudes than stick to his rhetoric from 18 months ago.
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