Party big shots want Robert Gates to stay

When you saw the header of this entry, you probably thought the party that wants Robert Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense after Bush leaves office is the Republican Party.

But now Gates is being held up as some great superman by big shots in the Democratic Party - or at least by candidate Obama's advisers. The Democratic nominee's foreign policy and national security advisers are actually urging him to keep Gates (a Bush appointee) as Secretary of Defense.

If you want proof that the Democrats have become Republicans Lite, this is just one of many, many frustrating examples.

Before the Bush era, Gates (Conservative Fool Of The Day 11/29/06) was an Iran/Contragate figure who wanted Reagan to bomb Nicaragua and overthrow that country's democratically elected government. He doesn't exactly sound like someone who'd make the world a safer place.

Man, talk about a revolving door in Washington! If someone as dangerous as Robert Gates can stink up important positions decade after decade, even with a different party in power, something is wrong.

I can understand a candidate reaching out to another party. But to Robert Gates???

What's next? Is the DLC going to tell Obama to keep Michael Mukasey on as Attorney General? Are they going to make him pick Dick Cheney as his running mate? That's about what this is like.

Damn. With stories like this, I'm so glad I'm a Green!

(Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4232070.ece)