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2009-05-27 Home Front: Politix

Obama announces WH changes to create new "National Security Staff"

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Posted by Seafarious 2009-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Can someone translate that for me?

It may not mean anything, but it *is* certified ISO 9000 buzzword compliant.

Posted by SteveS 2009-05-27 00:36|| 2009-05-27 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 It seems to me that he continues to bypass the existing cabinet leadership and legislative oversight, wrapping all into his close grasp.

Posted by tipover 2009-05-27 01:33|| 2009-05-27 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 international, transnational and homeland security matters

How shall he call it
"People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs"
or
"Committee for State Security"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-05-27 06:16|| 2009-05-27 06:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Gotta keep track of them radical war veterans. Perhaps Obama can entice them to his side with free farmland?

Posted by ed 2009-05-27 07:49|| 2009-05-27 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Grom: Komityet Gosudarstvjennoj Biezopasnosti

Posted by mojo 2009-05-27 11:18|| 2009-05-27 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Can someone translate that for me?

Department of Peace.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-05-27 11:53|| 2009-05-27 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps Obama can entice them to his side with free farmland?

Ummm, 40 acres and a John Deere? (Modern Mule)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-05-27 13:57|| 2009-05-27 13:57|| Front Page Top

#8 The President also announced creation of a new Global Engagement Directorate "to drive comprehensive engagement policies

Whole lot o' trips to Tiffany & Co., I reckon.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2009-05-27 14:05|| 2009-05-27 14:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Heimat-Sicherheit Rat
or
Vaterlandsicherheit Rat

would be "homeland security council" in German

Posted by Lord garth 2009-05-27 14:24|| 2009-05-27 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Heimatsicherheitsdienst, according to my formerly German mother, now here for a long visit (hurrah!), lord garth. Anything with Vaterland in it is streng verboten post-1945.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-05-27 14:36|| 2009-05-27 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 How does this affect General Jones??? Any ideas?

Posted by Art ofWar 2009-05-27 15:51|| 2009-05-27 15:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Redneck Jim, nah, not a Deere.

First off, he's gotta keep it real with a product from Government Motors/Chrysler. And it has to be "green".

So, it would be more like a solar powered Smart Car.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-27 17:36|| 2009-05-27 17:36|| Front Page Top

#13 A way to get Janet Napolitano out of Obama's inner circle.

Posted by ed 2009-05-27 19:51|| 2009-05-27 19:51|| Front Page Top

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