AMERICAblog: Chuck Hagel will join Obama on trip to Iraq and Afghanistan
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· 1 year ago
tsst
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Hagel's wife gave to Obama's campaign.
According to Federal Election Commission records, Mrs. Hagel donated twice to Obama's campaign in February for a total contribution of $500. The contributions were first reported by the Washington Post
Maybe while they are there on their fact finding mission, they can find out how to rebuild a society from scratch. That kind of knowledge is desperately needed here.
Just posted this below, but want my Americablog "family" to see it. A-blog is my favorite site, obviously. My brother and Wichita Wingnuts baseball coach, Kash Beauchamp, is ALL OVER the national news - CNN, MSNBC, "Inside Edition," etc. He got into a big fight with umpire over bad call, and went ballistic. I grew up with him, so his temper doesn't surprise me but I have to say he was REALLY creative with the shoe and arm pit gesture. In fact, I think its hysterical! Kash is one of those people that totally loses his head when he gets angry, but IT CAN ALSO BE ENTERTAINING.
I posted the video which has gone viral on my site:
Check it out and let me know what you think. Its funny because my brother caught all kinds of hell, especially from my major league baseball player Dad, Jim Beauchamp, for his temper. I told him yesterday, "For all the hell you caught growing up over your explosive temper, its vindication it would make you famous, huh?!!?" We had a good laugh. He is in some hot water over it with his league, and probably doesn't find this as funny as the rest of us but I think the video is a CLASSIC!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I remember having your dad's baseball card when I was a kid.
Forget which team he was on then.
(I guess your brother was saying that call "stunk," huh?)
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
You probably had his New York Mets card. I have a lot of interesting memories of that time. As you probably know, my dad and I didn't have a very good relationship. I do remember answering the door as a kid in Rockville Center, NY and having people standing there holding baseball memorabilia and taking it to my dad to have him sign and then returning it to the fan! LOL
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Hagel's a decent sort, being against Bush's war and all, but--putting a Rethug on the ticket would be just too damned much of a novelty act.
Memo to Obama: Stick with your own party for VP. There are plenty of Dems out there without going over to the Rethuglicons. It would seem as much of a cave as your vote on FISA.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Yeah, Hagel doesn't have a great environmental record either.
And I think he's pretty socially conservative.
I see him more as a cabinet secretary.
jr
· 1 year ago
I wouldn't mind Hagel as Secretary of Defense but his regressive economic policies would cause trouble during the vp debates. The Kash Beauchamp vide was awesome
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
I haven't heard from Hagel on the economy for a long while. Do you suppose he's had a change of mind? I can't believe that anyone would not, given the quickly deteriorating economy.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
Is he floating Hagel as VP?
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Someone has, and Hagel has indicated that he is willing.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
If Obama does not choose John Edwards as VP, I'd like to see him appointed as the AG. Then I'd like to see Cowboyneok's Brother made the Congressional Sergent of Arms , armed and all, to start pulling those Administration ratbastards out of their holes.
Jcapt
· 1 year ago
I wish this sit would not perpetuate the media comments that anyone in congress voted for war in Iraq. That was not the vote. The vote was to give the President authority to use force if it was justified. There really was never a vote to enter into what we now know as the War in Iraq.
ron071
· 1 year ago
Giving Bush any additional power is, by definition, a gross error and this error was made by those who voted to give him any additional power. He has corrupted the government in so very many ways that his tenure will be forever marked as a disaster.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Bush as Bluto Blutarsky: "You fucked up. You trusted us."
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Ha, ha. Take that up with Karl Rove. He insists that it was an authorization for war.
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Congress gave their permission to go to war. Of course Bush took it to the extreme on every part of the government. Thanks congress.
ron071
· 1 year ago
The more I learn about and observe the Obama campaign and contrast it with the McSame campaign the more the superiority of Obama shines through. Chuck Hagel, if not for his hard right social positions, would be a dramatic VP running mate. I frankly don't know how to bridge this. Perhaps he and Obama can figure it out. Jack Reid is relatively unknown to me.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Non-partisan fact-find tour of Iraq? NIce . . . should we look forward to a non-partisan cabinet? I could live with that.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
So could I, and I am a "flaming leftist liberal" to some of my friends.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
For years, Hagel and Biden offered the only legitimate criticism of the War in Iraq seen on Sunday morning TV.
I am grateful to him for that.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
I wonder, as with their coercion of a German official at the G8 to prevent an Obama speech location in Berlin, if Cheney or Bush will be prevented from screwing with this Iraq inspection by military and protective services who should know far better?
jiminportlandoregon
· 1 year ago
Hagel sucks on every single issue except the war. That is the only issue where he and Obama completely agree. Otherwise, Hagel is too far to the right.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
If Hagel came on board, he would have to declare himself a Democrat and pledge that he would adhere to the party platform. If he did that, I would have no objections to him. I believe that his wife has endorsed Obama. But please, god, not Colin Powell!
jimfromthefoothills
· 1 year ago
I think we can turn Hagel into a progressive.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Not without using prolonged stress positions that would cripple a thirteen-year-old Chinese contortionist.
mirth
· 1 year ago
You could be right. How much of his voting record represents his personal views and how much represents the views of his conservative constituency is a tossup. If Obama chooses him as VP, that would suggest his personal views are in agreement with a more progressive agenda...or it could mean what we fear, that Obama is less the progressive than we have hoped for.
Obama hasn't visited Iraq in over 2 years and now he wants to go on a bipartisan tour with two former military men opposed to the war who each may accept a VP ticket offer. War definitely brings people together.
shanobama
· 1 year ago
Unlike McCain, Mr. Obama was engaged in a very close and tough primary election.
He has kept up on foreign and domestic affairs, though. And I suspect he knows more about the Middle East and all the players involved than McCain does. Obama has a view that will agree with the Iraqi governments recent decisions about the next treaty. McCain, not so much.....
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Visiting Iraq means nothing per se. Someone called it the roof top view. I suppose Obama should have gone over there much earlier to buy rugs for his family home while surrounded by a platoon and with helicopters overhead.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Don't you guys think that Hagel might make a party switch if he were offered the veep slot? I still think Clark would be the best choice and hope that Obama will surprise everyone.
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According to Federal Election Commission records, Mrs. Hagel donated twice to Obama's campaign in February for a total contribution of $500. The contributions were first reported by the Washington Post
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I posted the video which has gone viral on my site:
http://www.pinkpanthersblog.com/
Kash also writes for our site BoomerSooner.com:
http://www.boomersooner.com/
He is a really good sports writer, as well.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Its funny because my brother caught all kinds of hell, especially from my major league baseball player Dad, Jim Beauchamp, for his temper. I told him yesterday, "For all the hell you caught growing up over your explosive temper, its vindication it would make you famous, huh?!!?" We had a good laugh. He is in some hot water over it with his league, and probably doesn't find this as funny as the rest of us but I think the video is a CLASSIC!
Forget which team he was on then.
(I guess your brother was saying that call "stunk," huh?)
Memo to Obama: Stick with your own party for VP. There are plenty of Dems out there without going over to the Rethuglicons. It would seem as much of a cave as your vote on FISA.
And I think he's pretty socially conservative.
I see him more as a cabinet secretary.
I am grateful to him for that.
How much of his voting record represents his personal views and how much represents the views of his conservative constituency is a tossup. If Obama chooses him as VP, that would suggest his personal views are in agreement with a more progressive agenda...or it could mean what we fear, that Obama is less the progressive than we have hoped for.
Here is Hagel on the issues:
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Chuck_Hagel.htm
He has kept up on foreign and domestic affairs, though. And I suspect he knows more about the Middle East and all the players involved than McCain does. Obama has a view that will agree with the Iraqi governments recent decisions about the next treaty. McCain, not so much.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_rule