Fire John Brennan

Thursday, February 11th at 7:00AM EST

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Even before he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama proclaimed he wanted to appoint a Lincolnesque cabinet, a “team of rivals.”

Lincoln, as ABC’s Jake Tapper reminded us way back in May 2008, appointed three of his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination to his cabinet, people who disagreed with him and at least one — Edward Stanton, who became Secretary of War — who had hurled personal insults at Lincoln, calling him a “long-armed ape.”

But Obama’s cabinet is no team of rivals, and his national security team is a concatenation of radical liberals like himself, a curious admixture of fools, miscreants and worse.

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You gotta love your choice of words, EE

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Thursday, February 11th at 7:05AM EST (link)

Yes, Brennan should go. You should be running a context here on RedState to see which of the CIA characters in all the Jack Ryan novels Brennan best fits.

They can always bring back Sandy.

I am very tired of the Lincoln analogy- it's a smokescreen

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Thursday, February 11th at 7:51AM EST (link)

Team of rivals? Please his cabinet is a bunch of like-minded liberal ideologues looking to obfuscate the Constitution so the Republic can be remade in their image through legislative expansion of government power and judicial fiat. They have no desire to take the Constitutional route vis a vis an amendment process because they know it would fail miserably. So they increase the central governments power at expense of the states and individual rights because Democrats don’t believe the people have any recourse (btw wrong). Now if you can comprehend all I just articulated and still think Obama compares to Lincoln, there is no hope for you.

Lincoln’s fundamental concern was to preserve the Union. His “team of rivals” was a balancing act to help accomplish that goal. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to avoid war more than Lincoln. His ideas for our great nation were grounded solely in the Constitution. I defy anyone to tell me where he went astray on those principles.

Obama on the other hand thinks the Constitution guarantees the “right” of health-care, gives non-citizen terrorists access to our guaranteed protections, bankrupt the nation and so on. That compares him favorably to most socialist figureheads and as an adherent to Marxist philosophy- but Lincoln? Not now, not ever.

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson