WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key administration posts: Christopher Schroeder, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator for Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency; Sherry Glied, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services; Winslow Sargeant, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration; Ambassador Nancy Powell, Director General of the Foreign Service, Department of State; and Deborah Matz, Chair, National Credit Union Administration. President Obama also announced his intent to appoint Max Cleland as Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Cleland to get Obama appointment
From a White House press release today:
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Disappointing but not surprising.
Cleland is a pretty disgusting person, morally speaking, and he's ridden his war wound about as far as it can go. Or has he?
Wow Keich, how many limbs have you given up for America? When you reach three then your comments about Max should be taken seriously!
Typical response from a Democrat.
A person isn't allowed to criticize someone simply because they were injured in combat?
And I'm sure you applied this same empty-headed logic to John McCain in 2008, right? That is, he was tortured for years, so you can't comment on him as a person and a politician, right?
WRONG.
I'm sorry, but as anybody around GA politics will tell you, there are too many stories about Cleland's moral shortcomings out there to think them all just gossip. At some point, the reputation sticks, and I, for one, didn't like what I heard.
And for the record, Cleland blew himself up by fumbling a grenade. He was not injured in combat. This, of course, does not diminish his service, which I applaud him for, but it does put the "war hero" tag in a little more perspective.
If you were criticizing his politics it would be one thing, but his integrity is another. Moral shortcomings would have led him to avoid service like Saxby Chambliss or Dick Cheney.
For the record there are many things I disagree with John McCain on, but I would never question his integrity or his heroism. I wish we had more American's like him. His concession speech after the election was truly one of the great political speeches that I have ever heard. Republicans would be smart to listen to him more.
But I am just a typical Democrat!
You are a typical democrat, because you missed the entire point of my previous post. Read it again.
I never questioned Cleland's personal integrity (I don't know enough about it), I questioned his personal morality.
That is, I don't think he is a very moral person. I also think his misrepresented his war injuries to bankroll a political career, which does somewhat speak to his integrity.
You're also a typical democrat because you can't stay on topic. Remarks about Cheney and Chambliss, neither of whom I have any time for, are irrelevant. We're not talking about either man here and we're not making relevant judgments.
And you're repeating yourself: Service in the military does not equal integrity. There are plenty of people in the military who have absolutely no integrity at all. So the fact someone served -- and was injured -- does not give them a magical pass on other aspects of their character.
In my book people who loose three limbs in a war, that they could have avoided have integrity. On the other hand, I question the moral integrity who avoided the war with fake injuries and claims of other priorities at the time. Not just because they avoided service, because plenty of people did that, but the fact that they needlessly defame the service of people like Max and John Kerry who could have avoided service, but they didn’t.
Give one example of him bankrolling his political career due to his war injuries. Guy can't help he is in a wheel chair and it reminds people of them when he speaks. He's never been anything but honest that I've heard about how the injuries occurred in the war.
If that makes me a typical Democrat then, so be it. I wear the badge proudly!
BTW Glad you aren’t working for the Telegraph anymore since you have such obvious disdain for those of my political perspective.
It has nothing to do with your persuasion and everything to do with the inane arguments you have put forward. That is, you continue to equate injury in war with integrity, a patently ridiculous supposition. There are plenty of people wounded in war who are completely immoral and lack integrity. Yet, your brain seems incapable of realize this very basic -- and what should be very obvious -- concept.
You also continue to try to make this a relative discussion by talking about other people when, in fact, they have nothing to do with the original point that I made: I believe Cleland is someone who has some serious moral failings, regardless of what happened to him more than 30 years ago.
based on his comments here, it sounds like keich is "a pretty disgusting person, morally speaking".
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