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2016 Postmortem

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 10:37 AM Jan 2014

Robert Gates, former Sec of Defense, new book trashes Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton. Who knew? [View all]

His Republican Party bona fides are shining through. I guess that's what happens when you try to be bipartisian in your Cabinet choices.

So is Mr. Gates planning for a presidential run in 2016, or is it that he just wants to sell books. He's guaranteed a best seller since the rightwingnuts will eat this up.

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Robert Gates, former Sec of Defense, new book trashes Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton. Who knew? [View all] politicaljunkie41910 Jan 2014 OP

He doesn't trash Hillary. I think he trashes Biden, most of all, because Biden TwilightGardener Jan 2014 #1

According to E.J. Dionne and David Corn DURHAM D Jan 2014 #3

I don't think what he said about Obama was all that damning, but of course the TwilightGardener Jan 2014 #4

I completely agree with your last statement. DURHAM D Jan 2014 #5

I saw an O'Donnell rerun on that. Whisp Jan 2014 #6

Well, that's what Obama gets for hiring or keeping on Rethuglicans HERVEPA Jan 2014 #2

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Peregrine Took Jan 2014 #7

Yep. BlueToTheBone Jan 2014 #8

Just what I was going to post. bigwillq Jan 2014 #9

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