Petraeus, Panetta Reflect Obama’s Support for Status Quo

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by Randy Shaw, BeyondChron.org

President Obama’s announcement that C.I.A. director and longtime Washington insider Leon Panetta will become Secretary of Defense, replacing Robert Gates, and that General David Petraeus will take Mr. Panetta’s job at the C.I.A. reflects the type of appointments that could have been made had John McCain won the 2008 election. Obama’s commitment to business as usual in foreign and military policy is consistent with his key economic policy appointments. In fact, one is hard-pressed to name a single top Obama advisor or influential Cabinet member who represents the break from the past that Obama promised voters in his 2008 campaign. Yet despite the President’s commitment to the status quo, he is cynically reviving old campaign themes for his 2012 campaign.

When John McCain faced Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, the Arizona Republican could not stop touting General David Petraeus and his allegedly successful “surge” strategy in Iraq. Petraeus has now become the go-to guy for Democratic President Obama, whose overall foreign policy agenda is little different from that of his former Republican opponent.

Is Petraeus running the C.I.A. really what change, Obama-style, looks like?

Full story: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=9136

[RandomThoughts]

1. I think surfacing of a sub.

In detection range is used to show who has what control.

shrug, why alot of things occur,

weather people know it or not.



So The Justice league, with help from friends like Joker Penguin, And Riddler, still got the football

:)

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Status Quo... does that mean the same thing as 'Change'?

Or was someone lying through his teeth during '08?

[leveymg]

3. Change changes. Or the other alternative you mentioned might explain it..

But, lies are conditional, too. Think that kinda saved us from an even worse reign of error during the Bush years. This guy's got more certitude, which in a way is even more frightening.

[Demit]

4. Maybe there was so much change so fast that we missed it, Obama being a god & all,

playing his eleventy-dimensional chess that we mortals can't understand, and this is the change that brings us right back around to where we were. Which might seem like the status quo but is really full 360 degree change.

[indepat]

5. So the PNAC mantra is alive and well all the while our economy, standard

of living, job prospects, housing market, infrastructure, and quality-of-life rankings all go to hell in a hand-basket. So it's long live fruition of the RW's longstandard wet dream of global hegemony. :shrug: :patriot:

[KoKo]

6. It's very disappointing. Particularly Petraeus at CIA.

I know there are those here who say it's a brilliant move by Obama to keep Petraeus from running for President...but why would Petraeus be such a threat to Obama that he needs to have a Military Man running CIA which was always supposed to be a Civilian Job. When Harry Truman signed the CIA into being...it was never meant to be run by the military.

:shrug: