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Flint, it's not about you.

"BRUCE! Where's my BAN button?"

Forget it...just shoot me.

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 520561)

It's funny to me, and I understand that it might not always be funny to everyone reading it. So, in that way, there is a callous part of me that disregards the reader who doesn't understand what I'm doing. I'll even say, outright, that insomuch as you can't account for every person's tastes, my methodology is (largely) to simply act however I feel like acting, and to hell with the consequences. People, generally, put up with me.

No way! :lol2:

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 520300)

WTF? No.

If you would be so kind as to state what you did mean, then.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Naw, not worth the time or effort.

PANETTA .. THE PERFECT APPOINTMENT
Neil weighs in. He has an interesting perspective on things.

By Neal Boortz @ January 7, 2009 9:01 AM

For Barack Obama, that is - but perhaps not necessarily for America.

I don't know many people who are thrilled with Obama's pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA. The guy has less experience working in intelligence than our own Washington correspondent Jamie Dupree. Of course I strongly suspect that Dupree is actually working under cover as a journalist. You should see the armament he carries. Anyway ......

One of the first to really speak up was Dianne Feinstein. She got her feelings hurt that Obama didn't consult her before making the selection. Well, she's right. You do talk to the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee about your pick to head the CIA .. but that was quickly corrected with some obsequious fawning by Obama and Biden.

Other thoughts on Panetta run the gamut. Dick Morris thinks he's being sent to Langley to effectively emasculate our premier spy agency. The destruction of the CIA began under Jimmy Carter. Will it become a fait accompli under Obama? There is much liberal angst over this phony torture controversy. Is Panetta the payoff to the left?

Others are saying that Panetta's experiences in the Congress and the Clinton White House qualify him for this position. After all, as the president's Chief of Staff he was a "consumer" of intelligence information. By that reasoning, since I bought a new GM vehicle a few weeks ago I'm now qualified to run GM. Than again, who isn't?

http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/01...ppointmen.html

All I'll say it that there is a difference between reading a book and writing one.

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 520854)

Naw, not worth the time or effort.

There you go, then.

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 520854)

Naw, not worth the time or effort.

... because that was a major mental task for the wacko Merc. It takes some minimal education to post something useful you shitbag. Oh. Another word that makes the least educated among us feel at home - you George Jr lover because you are so dumb.

[quote=tw;520934.....wacko....Merc......shitbag. ......George Jr ......[/QUOTE] :lol2:

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After all, as the president's Chief of Staff he was a "consumer" of intelligence information.

Who knows better than the consumer what they need and in what format? Isn't that what the top people at the CIA do, glean the info the President needs from all the stuff being passed up the chain?

I just think if you are going to appoint a politico to a job, put him in the one that is most political, the over all director of national intel, not the head of the CIA. I think he had them switched, maybe it was a typo and he read them backwards.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 521037)

Who knows better than the consumer what they need and in what format? Isn't that what the top people at the CIA do, glean the info the President needs from all the stuff being passed up the chain?

The consumer in this case is like the aftermarket. How is he qualified to determine what "info the President needs"? Hell he could be the best directer ever, but it just seems to make more sense to put a guy in here with some in the field experience. I know there were several others, including Bush Sr. who did well. I'm not gonna bury the guy yet. I guess all we can do is see what happens. He does have the political & boatloads of managerial experience - perhaps thats half the battle.