It’s official, being friends with Bill Clinton is more important than experience when looking for a high ranking cabinet post. This notion was just reaffirmed as President-Elect Barack Obama named Leon Panetta, someone who has never worked in an intelligence agency, to lead our nation’s spies and the CIA. Just what the War On Terror needs… a lifelong bureaucrat and political crony with absolutely no experience fighting terrorism. Oh, wait… wasn’t he a Clinton advisor when Bill missed a few chances at nabbing Osama?
And thus begins my quest to replace Hank Paulson as Treasury Secretary. I used to own a small mortgage company, which gives me more related experience than Leon Pannetta has at the CIA.
UPDATE: During post-announcement questions, President-Elect Obama rambled on about diplomacy and talking to our enemies, blah blah blah. Yeah, diplomacy worked real well on September 11th, just ask the heroes on United Flight 93. What’s Panetta going to do next time we are under terrorist attack? Pick up the phone and tell some hijacker that he feels their pain? The Israelis have been talking with the Palestinians for for decades, ask them how well that’s been working out.
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