Suddenly “change” and “hope” sound like “stay the course.”

BO’s not pulling out. That is the message. Gates gives him cover til the 2010 midterms. The added bonus is that telling voters that he “may” retain Gates soothes the nerves of anxious social conservatives potentially interested in voting for BO. If things get dicey in Iraq, he can still blame the evil GW.

Come now, isn’t this conventional wisdom by now? Rush has been saying this for over two years alone. News to no the mainstream, but not shocking to alt media types.

Just some more acrobatic back flips by the Messiah of the universe.

tossing others under the bus the first time the waters get a little choppy

A bus on water? Obama’s Magic Bus?

This would signal, not suggest, that Iraq stays the course.

It’s time to throw hope and change under the bus.

So,to be fair,Gates comments were directed at McCain as well,however,McCain will put country first,
canopfor on June 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM

If McCain wanted put the country first, he would have proposed real immigration reform. Build the fence, build it now, fine employers, jail anyone who knowingly give any government benefits to illegals, ad-infinutum.

Should Obama ask him to stay? It would seem to be the politically expedient thing to do, so he may well do it. But it will be kept private, unless Gates accepts.

Iran’s military said it might hit the Jewish state with missiles and stop Gulf oil exports if it came under attack. Israel “is completely within the range of the Islamic republic’s missiles,” said Mohammed Ali Jafari, head of the feared Revolutionary Guard. “Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime cannot confront it.”

Gadaffi endorsed Obama despite his “clearance sale” of Jerusalem, noting that Obama the Muslim, Gadaffi’s brother, has dispensation to say whatever it takes to get elected; yet Gadaffi has his alliance expectations with Obama laid out front and center.

Gates headed the CIA so he ought to know the score. Let Gates decide what Gates should do. Personally, I’d like to hear Gates renounce Obama as incompetent during the campaign and go back to Texas A&M rather than prop up Soros’ Pinocchio. It is arguable, but which honorable man SHOULD have stayed in office when Hitler first assumed authority in hopes to provide Hitler better leadership when that was impossible since Hitler took no one’s advice and going against Hitler met doom?

Obama’s mantra: Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
Question: does Gates want to deceive the world for Obama?

The success in Iraq is DESPITE him, not Because of him.

Of course, when obama doesn’t win, we’ll all be considered racists who didn’t vote for him. What a conundrum.

I’d stay, then resign in protest once Obama does something foolish.

Lehosh on June 28, 2008 at 7:34 PM

And then write a book.
Call it, “Waht Happened.”
OOPS! Taken… but you get my idea.

If these aides succeed it will mean we’re not departing from Iraq any time soon! Everyone knows Barack doesn’t blow his nose unless someone else tells him too.

What BHO wants is cover, not change. We are winning, and that is money in the bank if he’s elected president.

What he’s looking for with this is CYA with the nutroots, and an easy pander to undecided voters who support the surge and want to succeed in Iraq.

James OK on June 28, 2008 at 8:39 PM

exactly what I’ve been telling people I know for awhile now. If the dems can ever get in office and actually seem to “win” a war then the distrust of that party on national secruity goes out the window. So now you have national security and government programs for everybody and they have locked up the White house for years. With things looking better in Iraq now, he will not change course too quickly and he will do what George W could not do and bring the troops home with victory flag in hand. And putting an “R” in that seat who is against the war will only shore up the votes in the future.

As my mama would say, I was born at night, but not last night.

As my cousin now forward deployed somewhere recently said “to know him is to hate him”.

Er, I know he and his supporters think he’s the President already, but wouldn’t that discussion be a bit premature?
JDPerren on June 28, 2008 at 10:41 PM

Actually JD,

No it is not. It is a political ploy in the same way that Dick Cheney was tapped to be VP and Colin Powell was already lined up as SECSTATE when GWB was still campaigning. It’s meant to reassure the electorate. In Obama’s case, the message is that the DOD will not be harmed just because the POTUS is a troop-hating Democrat with no experience in national security or diplomatic issues. In other words, leaving Secretary Gates in place sends the message that adults will still be in charge in the Penatgon when the current national security and diplomatic teams (arguably the best the nation has to offer) leave their jobs because an unqualified community organizer from South Chicago takes over.