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fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 10:37 PM Sep 2015

Advisor McDonough

Rachel was fascinated that while the most important item in Obama's legacy, the Iran Agreement, added its 34th vote, was passed, was marked in silence about those who voted for it, no gloating, while Obama is in Alaska fishing for salmon, boating near glaciers, dancing with children, and just thrilling the hell out of the people in this tiny town on the edge of nowhere.

The Republicans must all be on tranquilizers by now.

That made me want to look up the name of that McDonough that he walks with on the White House Grounds now and then, out of earshot. It is:

◾Denis McDonough "point guard" on foreign policy ◾formerly was legislative aide to Senator Daschle

All I can say is that this advisor is nobody to fool with, and if he decides who he wants to succeed Obama, if they follow his advice, they are a shoe-in...He must be one of the masterminds behind the pro-treaty passing.

Obama sure can pick advisors and people to trust closely with that don't need to be watched.

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