President Obama seems set to nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel to head up the DoD.
White House officials and sources close to Hagel declined to confirm to The Cable that Hagel is the president’s choice to be the replace Leon Panetta at the helm of the Pentagon, but several sources close to the process said have told The Cable that the White House and Hagel have been in touch on a regular basis and that Hagel is indeed the expected pick. Decisions about the timing and logistics of the announcement are being finalized now.
The Cable had previously confirmed that Hagel successfully complete the vetting process, as have Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy.
Did that vetting process pick up this?
Hagel, who served as president and CEO of the World USO from 1987 to 1990, expressed intense opposition to the USO Haifa Center during a tumultuous 1989 meeting with Jewish leaders, according to multiple sources involved in the fight to keep the post open.
“He said to me, ‘Let the Jews pay for it’,” said Marsha Halteman, director for military and law enforcement programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), which led the battle to keep USO Haifa operational. …
“He essentially told us that if we wanted to keep the USO [in Haifa] open—and when I say ‘we’, he meant ‘the Jews’—he said the Jews could pay for it,” said Halteman, who recalled being taken aback by the comment.
“I told him at the time that I found his comments to be anti-Semitic,” she said. “He was playing into that dual loyalty thing.”
Hagel would be an odd choice. There’s little love for him among Republicans, whom he has betrayed more than once. His old anti-gay remarks weaken him on the left. His “Let the Jews pay for it” riff goes along with his anti-Israel streak and makes it tough for any mainstream Democrat to support him fully.
Obama may be using him the way he used the possibility of Susan Rice’s nomination to head State, as a stalking horse to get another nominee approved.
Obama hates Israel so why not?
Hagel is a signal to our tyrant’s muslim allies.
Bingo!
In Audacity of Hope, Obama presented himself as sympathetic to both Palestinians and Israelis (that was the moral equivalence theme). Now that he has moved sharply away from the center toward the far Left, he converges with communist historians and publicists like the late Eric Hobsbawm. See http://clarespark.com/2012/12/08/hobsbawm-obama-israel/. Hobsbawm and POTUS share the same longing for a social justice-inflected international order that will mow down the nation state and its bourgeoisie; redistribution of stolen First World wealth toward the non-white peoples; the Green Revolution, and most interestingly, an affection for George Soros (who funded some of EH’s books).
This Nomination and it’s review and approval, is one argument America should have.
Do words have meanings?
Does our Prez actually get his jollies doing this stuff?
Do The Chosen mean so little that they are the new {same as the old} scapegoats?
Let’s get this out in The Open and let American Jews see up close and personal just what Barry, Chucky and Senate Progressives think of them and theirs.
‘Revealing’ is one term I’d use, and let’s see what others can be applied here………
that obama is using, a form of jew-baiting, so to watch them squirm and squawk
like when he told aipac jerusalem would be israel’s unified capital, to great applause
and took it back the very next day, knowing all along they’d be all upset then
he’s a little creep, and why a big majority of jews can’t see it is no mystery
the majority is plain stupid, that’s why, but luckily, plenty are wise to the creep, too
for somebody else
just as bad
or a whole lot worse
but either way
obama worshiping
jewish voters
will kiss the calf
in deep devotion
but you’re probably right.
Why should a person, just because they are ethnically and/or religiously jewish, support Israel? It’s just a country like any other. We don’t expect people who are ethnically Chinese to automatically support China, no matter what. So why does the right feel comfortable demanding such behavior from american jews, most of whom have probably never spent a single second in Israel?
Of course he will. Obama is a closet muslim and he hates Israel. If he can ram through Hagel Obama will do it. If Obama can’t ram through Hagel, he will find another anti-semite.
Watch. After the inauguration. Bets on how long before Obama reveals that he has “converted” to Islam.
Dear me.
Mr. Hagel seems to have policies consistent with
ImamPresident Obama’s and will therefore fit right in with Egyptian President Morsi, his chosen bringer of true peace throughout the Mid East and even elsewhere.Sully hasn’t written about it.
““He essentially told us that if we wanted to keep the USO [in Haifa] open—and when I say ‘we’, he meant ‘the Jews’—he said the Jews could pay for it,” said Halteman, who recalled being taken aback by the comment.”
So … did he actually say “the jews”, or not? Because that statement is having a bet each way. If he just say “you can pay for it”, that is an entirely different matter.