President Barack Obama stands with Sen. Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office, Dec. 7, 2011.
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President Obama won reelection on Tuesday night, granting him another four years in the White House. As he transitions from his first term to his second, the president will likely make some personnel changes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, repeatedly, that she will retire from her post at the end of 2012, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is "pretty confident" that he will leave at the end of President Obama's first term.
The President will have to replace member of his cabinet, and set new policy priorities for the next four years. Sandy Berger and Harrison Wellford know a lot about the transition process. Samuel Berger was the National Security Advisor to President Clinton. Harrison Wellford served as White House transition advisor to President Carter, President Clinton, and to President Obama in 2008.
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In the same way the northeast needs a break from storms and regroup, Obama needs no political storm to happen in the rest of the world for a couple of months, so he can get a game plan together.
He might want to get some sandbags as a buffer for the Middle East and the imminent Euro collapse
OMG. Susan Rice; nominated for the post of Secretary of State.
Dear Santa Claus; the Republican party has had a rough fall. But if you would please give us Susan "It was the video" Rice as a nominee for a lengthy round of Senate confirmation hearings, we'd be so grateful.
The American public might also find it useful; a detailed explanation, of how she went on every Sunday interview program on television and misled the nation during the critical period of a presidential campaign. Under cross-examination by Jeff Sessions, John Kyl, Mitch McConnell, Jim Demint and/or Marco Rubio. It is hard to figure out what committee Ms. Rice might appear before; the Foreign Relations committee, for a nomination hearing, or the Judiciary Committee, pending an indictment.
Praising Clinton, Rice and Donilon with no mention of Benghazi and praising Geithner in context of the upcoming fiscal cliff, ruinous debt and fiscal crisis.
Is this reasoning in an absolute alternative universe with no serious challenge whatsoever?
My advice would be to turn away from the culture of death issues that he supports - he supports all of them, promotes them. But he won't do it, they are what he ran on. And since we voted for the culture of death, we can't expect anything good.
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