This sums up what appears to be a heavy video day on DaddyHogwash.com…This is a good one. Nothing new for those who follow this closely, but it is a good video nonetheless…
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By: Karl Frank Jr.
“Let the players play!” is the old adage, and it is a good one. As a matter of fact, I like it. I like it a lot. Especially in baseball. A good game is designed like a well-written novel. The suspense and anticipation of every pitch, nod, wink, and stolen base can keep a true sport fan on the edge of their seat until the climactic final out. And while there is no one way to write a novel, or play a baseball game, there is a general set of rules and regulations that everyone agrees to play by. These rules did not appear in a magical rule book by some invisible hand overnight. The rules of the game evolved over a period of a hundred years, and even longer if you delve in to the history of any sport that involves a ball and a stick. If it was not for these rules that everyone agrees on before the first pitch is thrown, and the umpires to enforce them, the game that we have come to know and love would not exist –- the same applies to my country, the United States of America….
There are few things more sweet than the swing of Ken Griffey Jr.’s bat. In 2008, he started the season seven home runs short of 600, and his last home run, number 599, had been on May 31. The drama and anticipation of that 600th blast was on every baseball fan’s mind until finally, on June 10, 2008, this pure athlete took the Marlin’s Mark Hendrickson over the wall for his place in the history books.
One has to wonder what Griffey’s numbers would look like if he had not spent all of that time on the bench with nagging injuries - but even still, 600 hundred home runs is something that only 6 of over 16,000 former Major League Baseball players had ever managed before. That moment in time was a feat of personal greatness by any athletic standard.
However, Griffey’s greatness did not mystically appear out of nowhere. It was not his inborn natural talents that made him a household name in America with millions of dollars in his bank account and a place in the record books. Instead, he was a man with a passion for the game that thrived in a system that was devised for him and others to succeed within. To better illustrate this point, read what Sir Isaac Newton wrote of the French philosopher Descartes, “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Griffey was a giant standing on the shoulders of the giants before him, including a man named Ken Griffey Sr.
Yet, the system that Griffey has thrived in is not perfect, and it has never been perfect. Individual players and sometimes even whole teams have attempted to swipe the legs right from under the giants of Alexander Cartright and his “Knickerbocker Rules,” Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Stan “The Man” Musial, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and more. The 1919 White Sox, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Hal Chase, and the 1877 Louisville Greys, just to name a few, are black eyes on the history of baseball, and in many cases, almost brought down the game all together.
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These are great! Sometimes you just have to be moderate to finalize agreements, but it is hardly ever the moderate that truly sways the hearts and minds of society. Moderates just get the final credit. (Thanks for the heads up Tom Diehl.)
Live free or give me a reasonable alternative!
Peace through pragmatism.
Let’s all keep our opinions to ourselves for a while!
It’s noontime in America.
Some taxation, some representation.
What do we want? Rational discussion? When do we want it? … What works for you?
Hooray for prudence!
We request change in a reasonable amount of time after comprehensive discussion of the options!
Who wants peanuts?
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Lesser-Known Slogans of Political Moderates.
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This contains a certain element of poetic justice. Does anyone remember Rush hammering Barbara Streisand for misquoting Shakespeare?
We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. [Applause] We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. [Applause] Liberty, Freedom. [Applause] And the pursuit of happiness. [Applause] Those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded. We conservatives think all three are under assault. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you.Limbaugh, it seems, meant to say "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," which, of course, is in the Declaration of Independence. Just to be sure, however, the Constitutional Accountability Center compared his remarks to the Constitution’s preamble, and didn’t find a match.
Limbaugh Misquotes Constitution During CPAC Speech
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This is an excerpt from a letter to the editor I wrote to a local newspaper called Call Newspapers after the inauguration of Barack Obama. Click here, or on the link below to read it in its entirety.
My 6-year old son Joey and I were at the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.
Actually, that is only half true. The truth is we were on the D.C. Metro rail heading back to the parking lot about 20 miles south of D.C. when Obama was sworn in. As many have heard by now, various logistical failures on that 5-degree-wind-chill morning prevented many ticket-holders from witnessing the event firsthand.
As I rode back with Joey in my arms, I was most disappointed about him not witnessing something he likely would have told stories about for the rest of his life. It made me sad.
Resident witnesses significance of Barack Obama’s inauguration
I can think of at least three birthdays that should be celebrated in schools (K-12) across the country on an annual basis. Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. I am sure there are more, but it would blunt the effect to have too many.
To qualify for school birthday celebrations, there should be at least four criteria:
1. The person verifiably existed beyond all reasonable doubt.
2. They made at least one contribution to humanity that has withstood the test of time.
3. They must portray the value of “obtainable intelligence.” That knowledge is an essential part of any value system.
4. Textbooks should already thoroughly cover their acheivements.
The purpose of the birthday celebrations should be more than just eating cupcakes. Age appropriate curriculum should be built around the events to humanize the men or women behind their accomplishments, accentuating that they achieved what they did through hard work and persistence, not just brute intelligence.
Perhaps the over-riding goal should be to show that everyone, barring some type of disability, has the ability to be knowledgable, and even with most disabilities, children and adults alike can almost always learn more than they already know. (It would be a great way to introduce Carol Dweck’s work at Stanford into school curriculum.)
For instance, I always tell my sons, “Smart is not what you know, it is what you learn and how hard you try.”
Regardless, Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton.
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What do you think The Vatican will say it is wrong about right now, 400 years from now? Maybe a top 10 list is in order.
Vatican Rewrites History On Galileo
Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero.
The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as a man of faith, just in time for the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescope and the U.N.-designated International Year of Astronomy next year.
Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute to the Italian astronomer and physicist Sunday, saying he and other scientists had helped the faithful better understand and “contemplate with gratitude the Lord’s works.”
In May, several Vatican officials will participate in an international conference to re-examine the Galileo affair, and top Vatican officials are now saying Galileo should be named the “patron” of the dialogue between faith and reason.
It’s quite a reversal of fortune for Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), who made the first complete astronomical telescope and used it to gather evidence that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.
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Bailing out the three auto companies would not be good governance and would prevent, or at the very least, slow the oncoming transportation enlightenment. A bailout would be akin to a massive effort in the 11th century A.D. to bail out the Dark Age. There. I said it. Wow. That feels good.
Some companies, no matter how large they are, deserve to fail, regardless of the consequences.
I have had a bad feeling about the auto bailout since it was proposed, and that feeling has not gone away. However, until today, I just figured that the right choice will be made in Washington. If the bailout attempt fails, which appears to be the case, it will be a good example of the avoidance of “groupthink.” (According to Answers.com, Groupthink is, “The act or practice of reasoning or decision-making by a group, especially when characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to prevailing points of view.”)
Bad companies should fail, regardless of the consequences, especially if they are going to be bailed out at the expense of innovation. I personally know, as most of us do, many people who will lose their jobs and become financially devastated by the auto company failure, but like a recruit at boot camp in the Marines, the auto industry needs to be torn down so it can be built back up in a grander image.
Michael Moore, love him or hate him, documented the failure of GM over 20 years ago when Roger Smith, the CEO of GM at the time, was systematically betraying the American “widget” worker, sending jobs oversees. Instead of investing in the American automobile company and technical innovation, he put GM’s massive resources in to buying large stakes in completely unrelated businesses.
GM and Chrysler are bad companies that deserve to fail. Unfortunately, like the sinking of the Titanic, they are going to bring down a lot of innocent people with them.
But here is the good news. GM and Chrysler’s pending failure, and possibly Ford being not far behind, does not eliminate the demand and the need for new cars. Because we are still a largely free-market based system, other companies will pick up where GM and Chrysler failed.
I believe that while we will take our lumps in the process, this will lead to a sort of automobile/personal vehicle/transportation period of enlightenment. The transportation enlightenment is on the horizon. Many of the workers who will lose jobs will get new ones in the same industry, but in the meantime, perhaps we should take the same $14 Billion that is proposed to bail out the auto companies and use it to provide career training and other support services to those workers to help them get back on their feet.
Instead of bailing out poorly run businesses, we should invest in the ingenuity, grit, and future of the American worker. Our government needs to look at this current financial crises as an opportunity to vaccinate our free market system from the ignorance and greed of the bolo-hatted businessman, and put it back in to the education, workforce, and business systems necessary for economies to thrive in the 21st century.
For more reading, visit http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/whats-the-point-of-bailing-out-the-auto-industry/
The Discovery Channel has put together this awesome and eerie slide-show of one family’s last day in Pompeii. Polybius was an important public figure on Pompeii and archeologists have uncovered his home, along with thirteen preserved skeletal bodies. With all of the well-preserved architecture, furniture, and bodies, experts have been able to reconstruct the final nineteen hours or so of this families life.
More proof that the “End of the World” comes about 155,000 times a day around the world in 2008. Maybe that is what is meant when we hear in theology that the “End of the world is near!”
The Legacy of One Family in Pompeii.
I won two tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration, and no, they are not for sale. I don’t think I could sell them even if I wanted to, which I don’t, because I have to be there (in D.C.) in person to pick them up on the 19th of January. So, since my lodging will be in Richmond, Va. during my stay, i will have to drive 12 hours to Virginia, and then 2.5 hours to D.C. on Monday, and 2.5 hours back to Virginia Monday evening, and then 2.5 hours back to D.C. on Tuesday, and then 12 hours back to St. Louis. Would you do it?
The essay contest was held by Missouri Congressman Russ Carnahan’s office. Here is the essay that won me my tickets: (Now all I have to do is figure out who I’m going to take with me.)
What the Election of Barack Obama Means to Me and America - By: Karl Frank, Jr.
Throughout American history, events like the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency have been a reminder to us all that the United States of America is the greatest country in the history of humankind. November 4, 2008, was evidence to all observers that while the founding fathers were well-aware that there were certain hypocrisies in the founding documents, they were confident that when the situation demanded it, the system was constructed in such a way that would allow for the government to mature alongside its people. The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America is the latest in a long line of examples of that maturation process, and was imperative to the rebirth of the ideals first expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
For me, Obama’s election resulted in a boost to my previously suffering faith in the American people. A faith that was restored to a level I had not felt since I was a child. While I respected and appreciated the traditions and sacrifices of my ancestors, our country, and the system that has worked for the American people for over two centuries, my hope for America’s ability to progress with the needs of the 21st century world was diminishing. This was especially disheartening when I pondered the prospects of my young family’s future.
What happened instead is that my three young sons were able to witness firsthand our unique form of democracy in action. For them, it was a perfectly devised civics lesson, a lesson about how our government is special because it is not separate from the American people, it is the American people. Most importantly, they learned that when change is needed in government, if the message is right, the average person in this country can make change happen. In addition, thanks to Barack Obama and his supporters, my daughter, all but six-months in age, will never know a day in her life that an African-American cannot be President of the United States of America. Not once will she ever open a history book that will say otherwise.
For all of us as Americans, being alive today is as revolutionary as being alive the day the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord in 1775; or when Francis Scott Key looked through the smoke to see our flag still waving in 1814; or the day when Abraham Lincoln stood at Gettysburg in 1863 to address the nation over what was at once our greatest tragedy and greatest feat as a country; or the day that Martin Luther King Jr. took a bullet in 1968 in the hope that someday the sons and daughters of our fellow countrymen would “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
These are the days that define the American spirit for all future generations.
January 20, 2009 will not be about the swearing in of Barack Obama, or even about Barack Obama himself, but rather the ideals that Barack Obama represents, the ideals that our founding fathers put forward for future generations to ponder and achieve. It is about bringing a decade’s old cynicism in our government to a screeching halt, and how our children for generations will learn about that day in their classrooms, studying what it means to be an American, and that success in our country is not just what you achieve, but what you overcome.
That day in January will be the day that this country will once again declare its independence, and remind the world that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Barack Obama is the epitome of the great American ideal that no matter what our story is, any one of us, from any walk of life, with the right drive and desire, can make it to the top. That is what the election of Barack Obama means to me and America, and I have never been more proud to be an American.
During the Presidential election this year, I got in a rather heated argument with one of my friends, and I said essentially what Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said on Sunday. Essentially, the blog network, if you want to call it that, can work two ways. It can either be used as a tool to spread misinformation, or it can be used as a tool to debunk it.
One of the reasons that Rovian (Karl Rove) style politics did not work on Obama this year is because almost as soon as a false accusation was made, it was debunked. My point at the time was not that Rovian politics won’t work in the future, it was just that they are going to have to find a better way to control their misinformation. It has to be sophisticated and hard to debunk. You can’t just throw it at the wall and hope it sticks any more.
Part of that is because of blogs, but the other part is that people on the internet as a whole have gotten a little more sophisticated. Not that we do not have a long way to go, just that people in America weren’t as quick to accept something they read or saw just once, or in passing, as fact as they were in 2000 and 200.
Fancy words will only get you so far. If there isn’t a reason for people to believe there is some substance behind what you are saying, it is going to be awfully hard in the future to bring them to your cause.
Which, by the way, is why the “all talk, and no substance” argument didn’t stick to Obama. He had a verifiable history of good judgment and thinking critically.
The spread of information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said Sunday.
In his Nobel lecture to the Swedish Academy, the 68-year-old Frenchman said an earlier introduction of information technology could even have prevented World War II.
“Who knows, if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler’s criminal plot would not have succeeded - ridicule might have prevented it from ever seeing the light of day,” he said.
This post is in response to Barbara Walter’s 10 Most fascinating people, who weren’t really all that fascinating. Click here to see Daddy Hogwash’s previous post on the matter. So, with some major input from a fundraising consultant for non-profits and scholar, Tom Diehl, and poet, writer, and archivist, Philip Gounis, here is DaddyHogwash.com’s 10 most fascinating people for 2008.
Our criteria: Someone who either advanced or was recognized for advancing the progress of humanity, and/or our understanding of science, culture, and systems of modern civilization in 2008.
10. Nate Silver - Mr. Silver is the founder and major author of the blog FiveThirtyEight.com with 538 standing for the amount of total electoral votes available to candidates in the Presidential race. Silver, a baseball statistician and performance forecaster by trade, developed what turned out to be a dead-on projection of the outcome of the Presidential race, out-predicting most professional pollsters. Throughout the process, Silver gained fame for his analysis, appearing on various political and news outlets on T.V. and print, and has likely changed the game for political election forecasting for many years to come.
9. Amy Wagers, Phd. - Wagers, at 34 years of age, has accomplished more in the field of stem cell research than most. At the age of 28, she wrote and published a paper disproving some of the recent theories of the pluripotency of adult stem cells. She had this to say in Harvard Science, “The whole idea was that stem cells run around in your blood looking for damage, and then when they find it they just become whatever it is they need to become, magically,” she says. “People still have this idea of stem cells. They’re not magic. But people want them to be,” she adds. Her research on adult muscle tissue stem cells will have long lasting, and exponential effects of the future health of our society.
8. Noam Chomsky - Chomsky was recently dubbed the man who “found the innate humanity in the human brain” by Discover Magazine, and the University of London linguist, Neil Smith, had this to say in the journal Nature, “Noam Chomsky’s position in the history of ideas is comparable to that of Darwin or Descartes…Chomsky has redefined our understanding of ourselves as humans.” Chomsky has a long history of scientific advancement in the area of linguistics and its genetic nature, and as a controversial political writer. Discover went on to say, “…he stands in the tradition of the great Enlightenment thinkers who combined a sweeping intellectual vision with meticulous technical analyses. He revived a rationalist conception of human nature in which the mind is richly endowed with creative powers at a time when behaviorism ruled and “innate” was a dirty word. He showed that languages have an elegant mathematical structure, which set a research agenda for linguistics, psychology, and computer science for decades to come, namely, “What are the computations that allow a language to be learned and used?
7. Raymond Kurzweil - According to Answers.com, Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist. He has been a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. In 2009, Kurzweil will be unveiling his movie, The Singularity is Near where he discusses how humans and machines will eventually become single entities, “achieving inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.”
6. Adam Reiss - Reiss, a 2008 MacArthur fellow, was the lead author of a recent paper that discovered that not only is the universe expanding, it is expanding at an accelerating rate, shocking the astronomical research community and reducing the likelihood of the universe as we know it ending in a big crunch. According to cosmologists, the observable mass of the matter in our universe can not account for the universe’s expansion, leading to the theory of a massless gravitational energy called “dark energy.” According to the MacArthur foundation, “Reiss is now actively engaged in designing expiraments and devices to detect and measure dark energy.” Reiss’s fascinating work will continue to have profound effects on how we understand our universe, from beginning to end.
5. Paul Krugman - According to Answers.com, Krugman “is an American economist, columnist, author and intellectual.[2] He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”.[3][4] Krugman is well-known in academia for his work in international economics, including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance.” Krugman’s work in these times of economic turmoil will be essential in getting the global economy back on its feet again.
4. John Brockman - According to Answers.com, Brockman is a “literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields.” The basis for the Edge.org project is to ask what would happen if you made an organized effort, “To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, and seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.” This project has resulted in several books compiled by Brockman asking some of the pressing questions of our time and seeing what these complex and sophisticated minds have to say about them. Brockman’s accumulation of these minds on pressing questions is what fascinates me about him.
3. William McDonough - McDonough was coined ‘The King of Green Architecture’ by Discover Magazine for his environmentally friendly ‘cradle to cradle’ architectural work. “William McDonough aims to create buildings that produce oxygen, sequester carbon, and produce more power than they use.” McDonough hopes to create a new industrial revolution where the homes and buildings we design are naturally sustainable and make our world a better place, as opposed to destroying our environment. Good luck William McDonough.
2. Barack Obama - Everyone knows Obama’s story by now, but to summarize, what he did was totally change the political landscape of America with an emphasis on empowering ordinary people to make a meaningful difference in their communities. He broke through a barrier that no political analyst would have predicted two years ago. He inspired and challenged African Americans to see themselves in a different light; pushed back against the cynicism that has gripped this nation for 45 years; stimulated young people to take ownership in our political system. The world is anxious for him to take office. His election marks a transformation in American society. Rarely does one individual make such a mark on history. - Tom Diehl
1. Norman Borlaug - The man who has saved a Billion lives and the “father of the green revolution.” How in the world more people do not know the name Norman Borlaug is completely beyond me. Well, I have a guess, he is the epitome of humility and shies away from the television camera. Now at 93 years old, Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal in early 2008 for his food research work, which resulted in the feeding, and in some cases, providing self-sufficiency for hundreds of millions of people who would have otherwise starved to death.
Honorable Mention: Arianna Huffington: Huffington is a major force in reinventing and perfecting the way news is reported on the Internet with the huffingtonpost.com. Her solid balance between fresh news, editorial blogging, and news aggregating has led to 9.5 million monthly visitors according to quantcast.com. Huffington has recently moved more in to local news for the Chicago metro area, and looks to expand after securing $25 million in investment capital.
So that is DaddyHogwash’s list of the 10 most fascinating people of 2008. Do you agree? Who would you remove? Who would you add? Who makes up your 10 most fascinating people of 2008?
Only in America!
Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds through Friendfield Plantation.
More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their descendants remained for more than 100 years after the Civil War. The last tenants abandoned the hovels about 30 years ago, and even they would have struggled to imagine a distant daughter of the plantation one day calling the White House home.
But a historical line can be drawn from these Low Country cabins to Michelle Obama, charting an American family’s improbable journey through slavery, segregation, the civil-rights movement and a historic presidential election.
Politics | Michelle Obama’s family: From slavery to White House | Seattle Times Newspaper
Freakonomics.com had some interesting thoughts on Turkey for Thanksgiving. It is clearly my least favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal, well, right after the giblets…which I don’t even try.
I always take a small piece of turkey so I don’t appear rude to the chef and then load up on Mashed Potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, sausage stuffing, green been caserole, and bread. (I just got really hungry.
So, Freakonomics asks, why do so many of us have turkey for Thanksgiving? I think it is clearly option number 1.
Why Roast a Turkey? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
This leads me to wonder: why do so many of us have turkey for Thanksgiving?
People rarely roast turkeys during the year. I am guessing that roast turkey is pretty far down anyone’s list of the most delicious foods. So why do so many of us go against our true preferences on this one day? Here are a few ideas:
1) We love tradition more than we love turkey.
2) We love to do what everyone else does, and if everyone else is roasting a turkey, we’ll roast a turkey too, damn it.
3) A roast turkey is a very cheap way to feed a lot of people.
4) Roasting a turkey gives the host a way to keep busy and avoid the once-a-year relatives who have invaded his/her home.
5) Turkey is a great delivery system for gravy, which is what we really like, and it’s hard to justify putting gravy on other foods that are naturally more flavorful.
In the days following 9/11, I felt very close to President Bush, as did millions of other Americans. His approval rating was over 80%. The country rallied around him and our immediate and decisive action on the Taliban of Afghanistan. But then things changed. As we are all aware, the focus shifted to Iraq, and that is when my satisfaction with Bush began to decline.
It was about motive, and it was hard to trust that Bush and Cheney were not looking for any excuse to invade Iraq and Saddam Hussein from day 1 of their administration. And with their ties to oil, the line was blurred from the outset as to whether or not the Iraq War really was about national security, or oil, or some misguided combination of the two.
Regardless, that is history. When Obama announced his national security team today, I felt eerily at peace with his choices. Originally I was very uncomfortable with him picking Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State because my impression that the Clinton’s, while smart and qualified, are also known (worthy or not) to be political backstabbers.
However, when I saw the picture today of Obama, Clinton, Biden and others on the stage, the feeling came over me that we are in the best of hands. Other than the typical ulterior motives of ego and power that possess most politicians, the real and absolute motive of this team will be what is best for America as a whole is good for all Americans in the long run.
This team, I believe, radiates a sort of American altruism. One that believes in and respects the Constitution as the one binding document that makes us what we are, and that the idea of America is what we are protecting and fighting for, not the individuals who live contained within the borders of that idea.
This team is just more evidence that with Obama, we are in the best of hands.
Obama Introduces Clinton, National Security Team - Huffington Post
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush’s Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
At a news conference, Obama also introduced retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security adviser, former Justice Department official Eric Holder as attorney general and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as secretary of homeland security.
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