{"id":5913,"date":"2008-12-05T15:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2008-12-05T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T21:01:23","slug":"mugged-by-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5913","title":{"rendered":"Mugged by reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, the barren hags of Code Pink were celebrating the win of their candidate, Barack Obama, as the end of all war. Today, they’re not so sure;
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While Obama is busy trying to convince us that a cabinet made up of the Reagan\/Bush\/Clinton\/Bush administrations is really change, the anti-US crowd is beginning to wonder if they’ll really have a voice. The Boston Globe<\/a>‘s Joan Vennochi\u00a0 wrote yesterday that in order to be a FOO (Friend of Obama), you had to have been an enemy first;<\/p>\n

John Kerry’s fate illustrates the new political order under President-elect Barack Obama: Reward your enemies, not necessarily your friends.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton, Obama’s tough primary opponent, became Obama’s choice for secretary of state; Kerry, an avid Obama ally, was passed over. Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, is also a former rival. Yesterday, Obama named Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, another primary challenger, as his pick for commerce secretary.<\/p>\n

What’s next, Dennis Kucinich as secretary of labor?<\/p>\n

Before that, Obama stood behind Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat turned Independent who campaigned hard for Republican John McCain. With Obama’s blessing, Lieberman retained a prestigious committee chairmanship.<\/p>\n

If you’re Kerry, you’ve got to be feeling a bit like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – thrown under the Obama bus, while ex-rivals climb merrily aboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, there’s room under that bus for all of those gullible jackasses on the Left who thought that Obama was serious about change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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