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Republican or Democrat: Politicians are politicians.

I have not seen any evidence that Democrats have greater intelligence than Republicans. Both parties seem to have just as many crooked and lying politicians.

I would not rant too much against Bush's officials...after the example Clinton set...and still follows....

H e should NOT be allowed to resign. He should be indicted and tried along with countless other Bush appointees who have proven to be corrupt. Alas, that will not happen. In a perfect world it would..and those indictments and trials would include the ineptness himself, Bush, His corruptness and Crookedness, himself, Cheney, along with the likes of Rove, Rumsfeld and a Republican list way too long to mention in this writing. We should just be glad that Bush and most of his cronies are gone or soon to be..except for some of those last minute "specail appointments" like the one another inept Condi Rice snaggled out of Bush. I wonder what dirt she had on him to finaggle that job?

Bye-bye, Bush Croney.

A simple equation:

"Bush appointee" + "intelligence"= "oxymoron."

Can't wait for an objective set of eyes without an agenda of his own to be in charge again...viva Admiral Blair!

Change is good!

Canada is nominating OBAMA for the Noble Peace Prize given his efforts reach out to Muslims. Obama knows how defeat terrorism!!!!

To those who had negative comments about Obama’s effort to reach out….let me just say this – you need to leave this CONTINENT

Get this to Lou Dobbs.

Lou instead of harping on some poor Mexican who is trying to feed his family by coming North – see if you can get these red neck stupid idiot people off the continent.

Here is the slogan

Stupidity Leave NOW!

We will all be safer!!!!!

Obama does not need a Intellingence Officer he has already shut down all intellingence gathering and said that HE would talk to people that have ill will against America and Americans and HE can protect us without any information that the Intellingence Agency might have.

well said Casey!

"The defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton announced Tuesday that McConnell will return to the company as a vice president."

As if he ever left. Get!

As my main Broham, Barack suggests:

"There's a new day dawning in America. It's time to turn the page on the failed policies of the past."

You got that right, Mr. Prez.

Time to follow the advice of Ross Perot, and, "clean out the barn".

Let's roll!

Casey | Sebastopol, CA "W's dirty little oil war in Iraq."

Where exactly is all this oil you speak of?
I hear this unqualified comment thrown around a lot by Bush haters and I have yet to see one shred of evidence that shows this was about the oil.
I have no love for the man personally, but I also detest mindless spewing of baseless comments.

As for McConnell, he's a decent guy with a great background and he did the job he was hired to do. Pretty well I might add.
So don't bag on the guy until you've looked into his service.
The ignorant and uneducated comments from the left are getting more absurd by the minute.

The guilty trying to jump ship before they are all investigated.

luan isuffi January 27th, 2009 3:19 pm ET
It is not a minute too soon.In inteligence we should have intelligent people not those arrogant, incompetent leftovers from this moron Bush
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So I image, Leon Panetta, a man with Zero intel experience going to the CIA is a good pick for you? That's not incompetent?

Aren't there any young brilliant men or women to take these jobs?
These same old same old faces are disturbing – and they usually follow the same old same old patterns.

I think there's a very strong possibility that he, and others, WILL be prosecuted. Just ask Karl Rove. This is why the Republicans are trying to stall the Holder nomination.

There's a new sheriff in town, the stonewalling of Congress is over, and we are just now beginning to learn just HOW much damage was done on the prior watch.

This Government changes "leadership" so often it's no wonder we have no "leaders"

Can say he did a great job

Michael McConnell could not stop lying to Congress, and was comfortable with torture as a means of intelligence-gathering. Good riddance.

"Intelligence", is Hard to Find; in a Technical World... Bit's and Bytes... Make just one "Letter" theses day's...

You mean he couldn't have waited a week or so until his successor was confirmed. Was this man ill?

If he wasn't, that's sure not very "Country First".

I've got to believe that if he had a new job waiting for him, he couldn't have convinced them to wait 2 weeks.

Adios to another Bush/Cheney hack.

The relationship between McConnell and Booz Allen Hamilton is indicative of the type of cronyism and "contracts for sale" approach of the former administration and fully illustrates why we SHOULD be prosecuting them all – starting with Bush and working down through this guy, too.

Booz Allen Hamilton is just ONE of the MANY groups making bucks off of W's dirty little oil war in Iraq.

Good riddance. He should be prosecuted, not allowed to resign.

It is not a minute too soon.In inteligence we should have intelligent people not those arrogant, incompetent leftovers from this moron Bush.

Was there any mention of why the resignation before the replacement was confirmed by the Senate? This seems like it is missing a sentance or two. Why is the #3 taking over? Where's the #2 and what's he/she doing (obviously not the job)?

Wow...another GOPer pansy throwing a hissy fit...awesome.

Good. Hit the road Jack...and don't ya come back no more, no more.

President Obama's Administration is ALL about changing how we do business in American. If you CAN'T handle the fire, get the hell out of the kitchen buddy!!

This guy is NOT the first who will run like a chicken without his head... there will be more. GOOD, I hope those that have a black cloud over their heads realize that President O isn't playing, he's not about fun and games.

I'm so proud of my President Obama, yes, I said it MY President.

Good riddance yes-man.

If you worked under Bush you can't have much intelligence anyway. SEEEEEEya.

Hell's bells! What do we need Intelligence for? We've got Obama the Magnificent Know-All in the white house.

He is going to be a lobbyist now????

Sounds like he doesn't want his name attached to any of the new Obama directives.

Sounds like trouble is brewing!

After Obama's executive order to close GITMO and then appearing on Al Arabiya TV saying how we're "friends" to all muslims – I'd be resigning from being Obama's Chief Intelligence Officer too!

It's quite clear Obama will be taking a hands-off approach to our enemies as Clinton did years ago leading up to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Perhaps when we're attacked again under an Obama administration, the liberal loons can explain exactly WHY Bush kept us safe for 7 years and Obama got us attacked again.