And the speechwriter is a moron btw, the thinking not pretty, but canned, and trite, the culinary equivalent of a can of Campbell’s tomato soup.

But they dont understand why this is a problem for them, a function of their narcissism.

Second: cynic – I think we already know how effective he’s going to be given the number of times he goes on vacation and whenever there is an incident he refuses to comment on it. HE’S NOT GOING TO BE! And don’t give me that crap he’s not the President yet! This is the man who is going to be taking it over in a matter of days!!! He should be taking a stand NOW so the country and the world know where he stands and where he is going to lead this country after he’s immediately sworn in. Since I assume he’s not planning on nuking anyone and would go the diplomatic route – I’m assuming here – there is no reason why he can’t voice at least an opinion.

Furthermore, after reading Mel Goodman’s article above, it’s clear Bush III has definitely arrived as well as the continued abuse of power – remember Obama voted FOR FISA! Follow the bouncing ball here, cynic, the “WE TOLD YOU SO” is loud and clear!

“He’s president-elect because they thought he was a risk we couldn’t afford not to take.” Only the koolaid drinkers thought he was a risk we couldn’t afford to take – only because he had his hopey dopey changey speech with nothing to back it up. It takes more than words to prove a candidate can create change! It takes proof in his background – and Obama didn’t have it and still doesn’t – his books don’t count as proof. I’m in a heavily democratic college town – 55% of the votes went to McCain because the older democrats didn’t like or trust Obama so they took the unusual step of crossing party lines and it wasn’t based on racism. The only Obama/Bidens lawn signs were on properties with student housing and eventually those became fewer.

No, Mel Goodman’s article just reinforces that Bush III has arrived and, on top of everything else Obama news related it, shows that we’ve four more years of a very rough ride and business as usual.

And by the way, the whole NASA thing, as I read about it in TIME, doesn’t seem to be a priority either, and so Obama’s people are fighting with NASA’s engineers. The problem is that very often space programs drive military technology, and we’ve got a tremendous space race right now with China, Japan, South Korea and India all slated to send space missions and beef up their space programs. It’s not a minor issue, and we shouldn’t consider it as unimportant to maintain on some level.

For the billionth time — Obama is completely out of his depth. He has a smart ass kid, barely out of his teens writing speeches with pretty words. Obama can read the words from a teleprompter but he has zero comprehension of the meaning of the words.

Obama lives in a fantasy land.

Obama is unprepared and unqualified — and he is lazy. He has only moved from job to job — not really staying long enough to learn the job.

His last job as US Senator was spent running for his next job — he never bothered to even understand the complexity of world politics.

Obama does NOT understand the military culture — I have NEVER seen anyone so damned ignorant about the US military run for Prez of the US.

We had the superior candidate — that was Hillary Clinton. McCain also is very knowledgeable about International politics and he knows the players.

Ray-gun was a bumbling fool — Bush is a stupid fool — Obama is WORSE then Ray-gun on his worst day.

You Obots are beyond hopeless.

Obama is a danger to the world — he is causing death and destruction — and the SOB isn’t even Prez yet.

enough said.

Obama isn’t president-elect because the people thought he was without risk. He’s president-elect because they thought he was a risk we couldn’t afford not to take.

I’m not all that knowledgable about the workings of our national intelligence agencies or about their internal problems and politics. I assume, however, that the White House sets policy and tone and lays down the rules. Nobody is going to run roughshod over Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, nor is anybody going to pull the wool over their eyes for long. Forget the far-right geopolitical agenda of the Project for the New American Century. There’s a new game in town.

Barry & ‘the Boys’: The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History by Daniel Hopsicker

Then ask why Obama would keep anyone with close alliance to Porter Goss.

Then realize why so many of us warned you ..and remember it when we say..we told you so!

Thank you Mel..great article, thank you for enlightening so many!!

I guess most of us can start saying “WE TOLD YOU SO”.

My biggest issue with Obama was that he is a National Security risk on many levels. I doubt that he understands anything about the spy business — and it’s doubtful that he even understands the Pentagon issues and the State Department conflicts mentioned in this article.

Obama does seem like a ceremonial type of President — I don’t expect that he is going to expend the effort to understand the functioning of the Government.

This is very discouraging. For the active duty military — oh my god — what sort of hell are you all going through?

My father was lucky — he served under mostly decent men who took their job as CiC very seriously

Looks like the hard lessons of history are coming the way of the uninformed/misinformed electorate.

We now have Princess Di in the Oval Office.