Chuck Hagel: Unworthy of Confirmation

[emptystep]

Did you watch the Confirmation Hearing...Hagel was lost...over his head.

The only pattern that I see is Obama wants it, therefore his minions defend it, no matter how much ignorance Hagel demonstrates.

Any parts of the hearing which particularly stand out? I will keep an eye out for them.

Containment, Iran, the Surge (McCain WAS somewhat heavy-handed in that exchange I'll concede, but a good leader must be able to admit mistakes and learn from them)...and the part where he basically said "don't worry, I'm not going to have much power", my jaw hit the floor.

He just doesn't prove even a rudimentary understanding of basic concepts, or that he was at all prepared for the hearing...much less the position.

I quit watching a little after McCaskill. Dropped off my priority viewing list. McCain is one to talk about lack of vetting but then again. (I will deny ever saying that if brought before the committee. )

 

[Missourian]

Any parts of the hearing which particularly stand out? I will keep an eye out for them.

Containment, Iran, the Surge (McCain WAS somewhat heavy-handed in that exchange I'll concede, but a good leader must be able to admit mistakes and learn from them)...and the part where he basically said "don't worry, I'm not going to have much power", my jaw hit the floor.

He just doesn't prove even a rudimentary understanding of basic concepts, or that he was at all prepared for the hearing...much less the position.

I quit watching a little after McCaskill. Dropped off my priority viewing list. McCain is one to talk about lack of vetting but then again. (I will deny ever saying that if brought before the committee. )

Suffice it to say...it was a train wreck.

 

[Missourian]

Containment:

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Only clip that I could find that contained all three clarifications.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Hagel is unworthy, that's why Obama picked him. He's a perfect compliment to that anti-American SecState Kerry

 

[Big Black Dog]

Chuck Hagel: Unworthy of Confirmation

I agree. Chuck Hagel is a dip shit.

 

[emptystep]

Containment:

[youtube]2zxjnPouh-c&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]

Only clip that I could find that contained all three clarifications.

OK, OK, no need to rub it in.

 

[skye]

 

[Katzndogz]

Hagel should be easily confirmed. He is perfect. Obama is building an ineptocratic administration. Someone qualified wouldn't last. He would be replaced by an incompetent. Just put an incompetent in to start and don't waste the time.

 

[skye]

Hagel should be easily confirmed. He is perfect. Obama is building an ineptocratic administration. Someone qualified wouldn't last. He would be replaced by an incompetent. Just put an incompetent in to start and don't waste the time.

Well...he is surrounding himself with Anti-Americans like him.

They want a weaker America.

In that sense Hagel is perfect for the job.

 

[freedombecki]

Hope a less controversial person is found for the job.

 

[American_Jihad]

Containment:

[youtube]2zxjnPouh-c&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube]

Only clip that I could find that contained all three clarifications.

Now that's what you call PROGRESSIVE...

 

[American_Jihad]

The West’s Shameful Demonization of Israel

February 4, 2013
By Bruce Thornton

After watching Chuck Hagel’s embarrassing performance in his confirmation hearings, I can’t decide if he’s a bigot, a paleocon isolationist, or just plain stupid. I suspect the latter, given his statement, “If confirmed, I intend to know a lot more than I do.” More significant is the fact that he was nominated at all, given his record of gaffes, his use of anti-Semitic tropes like “Jewish lobby” (used only once “on the record,” he assures us!), his indulgence of the genocidal Iranian regime and its nuclear arms ambitions, and his endorsement of American guilt and global retreat.

But the most important dimension of Hagel’s foreign policy beliefs is his obvious distaste for Israel, evident in a catalogue of public statements over the past decade. He has consistently indulged the specious moral equivalence that refuses to acknowledge Arab hatred of Israel and Palestinian terrorist violence as the root causes of the conflict, refused to support condemnations of Palestinian terrorism and terrorist organizations, blamed Israel for lack of progress in the so-called “peace process,” and decried the malign influence of the “Jewish lobby” on American foreign policy. Yet all these positions are ones with which Obama is comfortable. That’s why he nominated such an unprepared, inexperienced blowhard to run the Pentagon.

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The West?s Shameful Demonization of Israel

 

[American_Jihad]

Hagel should be easily confirmed. He is perfect. Obama is building an ineptocratic administration. Someone qualified wouldn't last. He would be replaced by an incompetent. Just put an incompetent in to start and don't waste the time.

Well...he is surrounding himself with Anti-Americans like him.

They want a weaker America.

In that sense Hagel is perfect for the job.

Obongo drove the car through the ditch and into the pigsty...

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[sealadaigh]

The West’s Shameful Demonization of Israel

February 4, 2013
By Bruce Thornton

After watching Chuck Hagel’s embarrassing performance in his confirmation hearings, I can’t decide if he’s a bigot, a paleocon isolationist, or just plain stupid. I suspect the latter, given his statement, “If confirmed, I intend to know a lot more than I do.” More significant is the fact that he was nominated at all, given his record of gaffes, his use of anti-Semitic tropes like “Jewish lobby” (used only once “on the record,” he assures us!), his indulgence of the genocidal Iranian regime and its nuclear arms ambitions, and his endorsement of American guilt and global retreat.

But the most important dimension of Hagel’s foreign policy beliefs is his obvious distaste for Israel, evident in a catalogue of public statements over the past decade. He has consistently indulged the specious moral equivalence that refuses to acknowledge Arab hatred of Israel and Palestinian terrorist violence as the root causes of the conflict, refused to support condemnations of Palestinian terrorism and terrorist organizations, blamed Israel for lack of progress in the so-called “peace process,” and decried the malign influence of the “Jewish lobby” on American foreign policy. Yet all these positions are ones with which Obama is comfortable. That’s why he nominated such an unprepared, inexperienced blowhard to run the Pentagon.

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The West?s Shameful Demonization of Israel

somewhere along the line. y'all are gonna have to decide if you are american or israeli.

 

[sealadaigh]

thanks homes.

9th divarty.

 

[American_Jihad]

The West’s Shameful Demonization of Israel

February 4, 2013
By Bruce Thornton

After watching Chuck Hagel’s embarrassing performance in his confirmation hearings, I can’t decide if he’s a bigot, a paleocon isolationist, or just plain stupid. I suspect the latter, given his statement, “If confirmed, I intend to know a lot more than I do.” More significant is the fact that he was nominated at all, given his record of gaffes, his use of anti-Semitic tropes like “Jewish lobby” (used only once “on the record,” he assures us!), his indulgence of the genocidal Iranian regime and its nuclear arms ambitions, and his endorsement of American guilt and global retreat.

But the most important dimension of Hagel’s foreign policy beliefs is his obvious distaste for Israel, evident in a catalogue of public statements over the past decade. He has consistently indulged the specious moral equivalence that refuses to acknowledge Arab hatred of Israel and Palestinian terrorist violence as the root causes of the conflict, refused to support condemnations of Palestinian terrorism and terrorist organizations, blamed Israel for lack of progress in the so-called “peace process,” and decried the malign influence of the “Jewish lobby” on American foreign policy. Yet all these positions are ones with which Obama is comfortable. That’s why he nominated such an unprepared, inexperienced blowhard to run the Pentagon.

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The West?s Shameful Demonization of Israel

somewhere along the line. y'all are gonna have to decide if you are american or israeli.

somewhere along the line when I google reabhloideach which one describes you the best...

 

[Katzndogz]

The West’s Shameful Demonization of Israel

February 4, 2013
By Bruce Thornton

After watching Chuck Hagel’s embarrassing performance in his confirmation hearings, I can’t decide if he’s a bigot, a paleocon isolationist, or just plain stupid. I suspect the latter, given his statement, “If confirmed, I intend to know a lot more than I do.” More significant is the fact that he was nominated at all, given his record of gaffes, his use of anti-Semitic tropes like “Jewish lobby” (used only once “on the record,” he assures us!), his indulgence of the genocidal Iranian regime and its nuclear arms ambitions, and his endorsement of American guilt and global retreat.

But the most important dimension of Hagel’s foreign policy beliefs is his obvious distaste for Israel, evident in a catalogue of public statements over the past decade. He has consistently indulged the specious moral equivalence that refuses to acknowledge Arab hatred of Israel and Palestinian terrorist violence as the root causes of the conflict, refused to support condemnations of Palestinian terrorism and terrorist organizations, blamed Israel for lack of progress in the so-called “peace process,” and decried the malign influence of the “Jewish lobby” on American foreign policy. Yet all these positions are ones with which Obama is comfortable. That’s why he nominated such an unprepared, inexperienced blowhard to run the Pentagon.

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The West?s Shameful Demonization of Israel

somewhere along the line. y'all are gonna have to decide if you are american or israeli.

Whether you want freedom or islam.

 

[American_Jihad]

Chuck Hagel: Unprincipled Flip-Flopper or Serial Liar?
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February 5, 2013
By Ari Lieberman

In 1998, Chuck Hagel attempted to block the appointment of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxemburg on the grounds that Hormel was “openly and aggressively gay.” Fourteen years later, on the heels of his own political appointment as Department of Defense (DOD) chief, Hagel issued an apology to Hormel calling his remarks “insensitive” and not reflective of his current views on LGBT issues. Of course the timing of Hagel’s “apology” was impeccable. One could even say expedient and likely done not on his own initiative but at the behest of the White House. But Hagel’s sudden reversal on gay issues is but one of a number of recent Hagel retractions.

At his recent confirmation hearings, Hagel reversed himself on nearly every past position he had so staunchly held. On nuclear weapons, Hagel had co-authored an article where he advocated unilateral reduction in ground-based ICBMs and the elimination of tactical nuclear weapons. Under intense questing from Senator Deb Fischer, Hagel performed an about-face and maintained that he only favored bilateral reductions. This current Hagel position is diametrically opposed to positions that Hagel had previously held and committed himself to in past articles.

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Either way, the nation can ill afford to entrust such a personality with our national defense and the Senate should reject his nomination without reservation or equivocation.



Chuck Hagel: Unprincipled Flip-Flopper or Serial Liar?

 

[Katzndogz]

Either way, the nation can ill afford to entrust such a personality with our national defense and the Senate should reject his nomination without reservation or equivocation.



Chuck Hagel: Unprincipled Flip-Flopper or Serial Liar?

Have you noticed how many competent military leaders have recently been fired? General Carter Ham, General Stanley McChrystal, Major General Peter Fuller, General James Mattis, Admiral Charles Gaoutte, all gone because they were competent. obama has been quietly decapitating American military leadership. He's doing an excellent job of it too. It is not mystery why Chuck Hagel is a Secretary of Defense nominee, or that John Kerry is secretary of state.

 

[American_Jihad]

Either way, the nation can ill afford to entrust such a personality with our national defense and the Senate should reject his nomination without reservation or equivocation.



Chuck Hagel: Unprincipled Flip-Flopper or Serial Liar?

Have you noticed how many competent military leaders have recently been fired? General Carter Ham, General Stanley McChrystal, Major General Peter Fuller, General James Mattis, Admiral Charles Gaoutte, all gone because they were competent. obama has been quietly decapitating American military leadership. He's doing an excellent job of it too. It is not mystery why Chuck Hagel is a Secretary of Defense nominee, or that John Kerry is secretary of state.

Obongo administration looks like its following the bill ayers weather underground and the Cloward-Piven Strategy...

When the shit hits the fan those generals could lead Military coup d'état against the obongo gubment...