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2016-05-11 Government

More on Champ's 'boy wonder' Mr. Ben Rhodes

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-11 02:38|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Snippet from 5 May 2016 NYT piece.

In Panetta’s telling, his own experience at the Pentagon under Obama sometimes resembled being installed in the driver’s seat of a car and finding that the steering wheel and brakes had been disconnected from the engine. Obama and his aides used political elders like him, Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton as cover to end the Iraq war, and then decided to steer their own course, he suggests. While Panetta pointedly never mentions Rhodes’s name, it is clear whom he is talking about.

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-11 02:50|| 2016-05-11 02:50|| Front Page Top

#2 the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself

Did we forget about ValJar?

Posted by gorb 2016-05-11 03:02|| 2016-05-11 03:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Did we forget about ValJar?

You're saying look at the puppeteer not the puppets?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-05-11 03:35|| 2016-05-11 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Could it be that they work as a team? Ben handles foreign affairs and the media, ValJar executes the domestic infiltration of Islam, MB and the like ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-11 11:40|| 2016-05-11 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 sometimes resembled being installed in the driver’s seat of a car and finding that the steering wheel and brakes had been disconnected from the engine.

Dear NYT - the steering wheel and brake systems on the car are disconnected from the engine. Freakin' morons...

Posted by Raj 2016-05-11 11:45|| 2016-05-11 11:45|| Front Page Top

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