I have a simple retort to this: If you have radical goals, why appoint all your key people from the center and center/right?

Interesting point, Ron.

But first, I suppose…we would have to define center and center/right.

Let’s pick an issue:

1)Health care
2)Israel
3)Abortion rights
4)Interrogation of terrorists
5)Distribution of wealth
6)Second amendment rights
7)The UN
8)Fannie and Freddie
9)Campaign finance
10) Global warming

Ron, I look at the days ahead and I don’t see a clear picture emerging. I don’t know what Malley, Brzezinski, Bonior, McPeak, Power, Lake, Susan Rice, …have done, are doing or will do in the future administration. I only know that I am terribly uncomfortable with most of these folks.

I’m a bit nonplussed about the Holder appointment. Less filled with dread than uncertainty.

And…what to make of the lifelong open ear to the likes of Rashid Khalidi, the late Edward Said, and perhaps Don Warden/Khalid al Mansour.

Moreover, it is nearly impossible to tell what impact or influence Michael Klonsky, Ayers/Dohrn, Sam Graham Felsen, George Soros, Frank Marshall Davis and numerous radical professors had on the worldview of President-elect Obama. How much of it took hold? Any? Some? None?

And how will those influences (if any) manifest themselves. Are we to believe…in NO way, whatsoever?

Clearly we are flying blind here, because the entrenched media saw fit to hold a sit down strike during the vetting process. Let me restate that. They actively retarded and aborted the process, while simultaneously shilling for one candidate while demonizing his opposing party.

How can we gauge what these appointments mean in the long term? By taking it all at face value? I certainly would like the comfort it would provide to do so.

Simply explain away Malley’s magic act of appearance, disappearance, reappearance…and tell me what he’s been up to and what his role is, has been and will be.

Tell me what this whole Walt and Mearsheimer crowd is doing within the administration, has been advising and what they intend to do going forward.

Tell me what influence Soros had, has now and will have in the future of shaping things to come.

And let me know what influence the Noam Chomsky’s have and his disciples.

How will Susan Rice approach the UN and their mental midgetry vis a vis Israel?

I’m a centrist, I’ve been a centrist most of my life…Ron…some of these people are no centrists.