President Obama has nominated former Republican Senator from
Nebraska CHUCK HAGEL for Secretary of Defense and boy what an uproar the nomination
has caused on BOTH sides of the isle.
Chuck Hagel is a Republican that I admire and would have
voted for him as president in 2008 but “good” Republicans like Hagel and Jon Huntsman
are never nominated because they are moderate in their views and not religious
Neanderthals.
I like Hagel because he is my age, a Vietnam veteran with
two (2) Purple Hearts who finished college on the GI Bill and made millions as
a businessman.
He also is Polish on his mother’s side which cannot hurt.
Why are people on both sides of the political spectrum up in
arms over his nomination; because he does not always follow the party line but actually
has a brain of his own; he tends Libertarian.
He opposed Bush’s Iraq War. He said that the Jewish lobby in
the U.S. is too strong. He challenged our military budget and he challenged
many political ideas that did not make any sense to him regardless of which
party they came from.
I guess he is a maverick and boy do we need people like that
in Washington, DC.
His nomination hearings should be a great show to watch as
all the political blowhards try to knock him off his perch but I feel Obama made
a great choice for Secretary of Defense and his nomination should stand in the
end.
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