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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:16 PM Original message |
Okay, we need a much stronger State Department |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's not a good idea to turn the State Dept. into a Clinton machine operation manipulating the media |
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PresidentObama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Manipulating the media? Who let you out of the basement. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. The Clintons are master media manipulators |
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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Which begs the question: What are they going to try to sell the media/public on? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. That's what we'll have to watch |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Hillary for President - 2012. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Think of Judith Miller - maybe it is |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Hillary's campaign proves otherwise. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. If she uses that against the DoD, CIA, |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I don't think agencies' infighting is what Obama has in mind. n/t |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I don't think a State Dept that gets steamrolled |
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QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. This happens in the DoJ |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 01:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. "every time there is a change from one president to another. " |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Except history shows us that much was weakened under Clinton, including the presidency, and |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I understand that |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Did you see Bill USE his influence to urge Bush and Pakistan to add security for Bhutto when |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. This is a very good point. Rec. |
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beachmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Maybe, except the point Josh Marshall made: that she has been a poor manager. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 01:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Yeah, I know that too |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
17. Cheney made the state dept. into a joke, at his beck and call |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
18. I think the loss of institutional memory at State may be huge. |
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