So President Obama now thinks Ray Kelly is "well qualified" for the DHS post . . .

[markpkessinger]

. . . Why am I so not surprised?

(Counting down the number of seconds until we see reply after reply from the usual coterie, now declaring themselves lifelong fans of Ray Kelly.)

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=9174700

[Generic Other]

1. And what are his qualifications

Knows how to kettle occupiers?

[PoliticAverse]

2. Also some discussion on this in the New York group...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1068&pid=1445

[SamKnause]

3. Kelly

Puppet Obama would nominate the 'devil' if his puppeteers demanded it.

Wall Street thieves
corporate tax dodgers
Bush holdovers
warmongers
Republicans

All choices Puppet Obama has made.

[chervilant]

4. Might as well add

"Bill of Rights Violators" to your list.

(Do you think Mr. Obama EVER intended to be the change we hope to see in this world?)

[datasuspect]

6. "Oh, and I say it again, you've been had

You've been took. You've been hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Led astray. Run amok!"


- Brother Malcolm

[xchrom]

5. ...

[Enrique]

7. yes the coterie that has a sudden hatred of leakers

will turn out to also have a sudden love of racial profiling.

"I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns."

[djean111]

8. I was thinking yesterday that somehow the, um, quality of appointees has been completely

overshadowed by the victory of getting them appointed.
Yay!! The GOP blinked! So are we blinking.
Appointing a Ray Kelly is not a victory. The Martin case was all about profiling.

So is complete surveillance.

[East Coast Pirate]

9. Par for the course.

No surprise at all.

[chervilant]

10. Wow...

What think you about the dearth of responses to your rather appropriate OP? Frankly, I thought there would be a plethora of censuring rebuttals by now.

Of course, some on my IL might have chided you for criticizing Mr. Obama, and I wouldn't have a clue. Maybe they just use "trash thread," and hide what they can't bear to see. I've even had a post hidden for observing that ofttimes our idols have feet of clay, so maybe some folks have ME on IL.

At any rate, I thought for sure your OP would motivate a lively discussion. What say you?

[markpkessinger]

11. Thanks!

I rather thought it might generate more of a discussion, too, but the one thing I have figured out in my roughly four years here is that sometimes, with the very heavy traffic this site sometimes generate, a particular posting can get lost in the shuffle. Sometimes, I do manage to post something that gets quite a response; other times, not so much. I've learned not to take it terribly personally. Cheers!

[tritsofme]

14. Doesn't surprise me. Kelly would not be a controversial nominee.

The teeth gnashing would be minimal and largely irrelevant. The no votes on his confirmation would likely be in the single digits and include names such as Rand Paul.

[beevul]

12. I wonder what Adrian Schoolcraft would say...

I wonder what Adrian Schoolcraft would say about how "well qualified" Kelly is...

[H2O Man]

13. That's obscene.

Recommended.

[Octafish]

15. Well, if he's good enough to get the Subway Gunman's endorsement...

...he'll probably do a bang-up job of keeping people in their authorized protest zones. Go COINTELPRO!

[Bluenorthwest]

16. So Obama favors racist profiling apparently.

Kelly, Zimmerman, it's all the same shit, can't have one without the other, can't oppose one but not the other.

[emulatorloo]

17. Bet you a dollar he will not be nominated.