Elections mean nothing. Bolton=McCain=Leiberman=Hagel. Palin=Biden. Extending all of the Bush tax cuts = extending the tax cuts for people earning less than 400K. Letting GM go bankrupt would have been the same as not letting them go bankrupt.
I voted for Obama. I think Obama is doing a SHIT ton better than Romney and the Republickers. You CLEARLY think Obama is a moron, since he's stupid enough to nominate an extreme right-winger to be Secretary of Defense, an extreme right-winger who McCain, Imhofe, and every 'moderate' Republican, not to mention AIPAC and Bibi, don't want to be Secretary of Defense, for some odd reason. The same clan of Republickers who had no problem putting Rummy and Gates into office.
So go ahead, I'll give you the last word on this. I own a copy of Mein Kampf, if that helps.
But I'd suggest you give Obama the benefit of the doubt.
Here are a few things from Wikipedia, that make me think Hagel is the type of person I could support, aside from the quote in the original post in this thread:
In 2011, after he left office, Hagel stated that President Obama needs to start “looking for the exit in Afghanistan”, and that “We need to start winding this down.”
In response to the Bush Administration’s intentions to permanently keep Guantanamo Bay open, Hagel said the military prison is why the U.S. is “losing the image war around the world,” and that "It's identifiable with, for right or wrong, a part of America that people in the world believe is a power, an empire that pushes people around, we do it our way, we don't live up to our commitments to multilateral institutions." I guess he is to the left of Obama on this one.
In November 2007, he rated the Bush administration "the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus—almost every area" of any presidency in the last forty years.
Hagel did not endorse McCain for President in 2008 in the primaries or the general election.
According to a SurveyUSA poll, in August 2006 Hagel had a 10% higher approval rating among Nebraska Democrats than Republicans.
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