just wondering....has the name DICK CLARKE been bantered around for any post in the cabinet?

[AgadorSparticus]

I'm such a fan of his, I'd like to see him be a part of Team Obama. He has much to offer...

[medeak]

1. my hero

although I'd like to keep seeing him making the media rounds! he saved my sanity for years

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Secretary Of Pop Dance Music?

Oh... you meant the OTHER Dick Clark(e).

Never mind.

[napi21]

3. Only from a few of us on DU so far. I hope he's tapped too! He is

VERY GOOD at his job. If the idiot had listened to HIM, there may not have been a 911, thus no Iraq/Afghan wars either!

[tularetom]

4. I dunno - he useta be OK back in the 50's

He might be a little old now.

[Pirate Smile]

5. He has been an advisor to Obama for a long time. I'm sure he is going to be working somewhere

in the Administration.



"Former White House adviser talks about foreign policy

Sen. Barack Obama may not have Sen. John McCain’s military experience, but he has the right judgment when it comes to foreign policy, said Richard Clarke, former terrorism adviser in President Bill Clinton’s administration, in a Tuesday visit to UF.

Clarke and Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, one of Obama’s foreign policy advisers, spoke to a crowd of about 150 in the Reitz Union Auditorium in an event sponsored by Students for Barack Obama."

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/09/24/news/campus/080923_obama.txt



"Obama Campaign Rolls Out Richard Clarke To Hit Back At McCain's "Sept. 10th Mindset" Attack

Richard Clarke made an appearance as an Obama surrogate on a conference call with reporters moments ago, hitting back very hard against the McCain camp's claim today that Obama has a "September 10th mindset."

"I'm frankly disgusted at my friends on the McCain campaign," Clarke said, perhaps being a bit optimistic in describing those folks as still being "friends" of his. Clark referred to the McCain camp's claim that Dems only favor a law enforcement approach to terrorism, and accused McCain advisers of "completely and utterly distorting the record of that party."

"They said that about Bill Clinton," Clarke continued. "They said that about John Kerry. And now they're saying it about Barack Obama. I'd like them to show where in the record Barack Obama has favored only a law enforcement approach."

The Obama camp hastily assembled the call after the news spread this morning about the McCain camp's attacks.

Clarke emphasized that Obama has unveiled a comprehensive anti-terror plan and has said that he would be willing to act on actionable intelligence to pursue Al Qaeda suspects in Pakistan. "This is the Karl Rove strategy of taking what the truth is, and stating the opposite," Clarke said of the McCain team's charges.

This attack today by the McCain team signals a new phase in the race and is a major test for the Obama campaign, which will need to respond far more effectively to this sort of stuff than John Kerry did. And it was a good move to roll out Clarke as a way of signaling that the Obama team will indeed respond aggressively and fast."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/obama_campaign_rolls_out_richa.php

[Ian David]

6. Secretary of New Years Eve? n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

7. I like it. It has a nice beat. You can dance to it.

[navarth]

8. I like that idea very much.

You'd better call him RICHARD Clarke so the comedians on this thread will stop.

[90-percent]

9. Richard Clarke

Clarke is the only person in all of American Government that apologized for the failure of government on 9/11.

Everybody else was too chickenshit to even acknowledge that it was the failure of government that allowed this entirely preventable tragedy to happen.

I hope this post doesn't transport this all to the DU 9/11 dungeon!


-90% Jimmy

[annabanana]

10. Here! Here!. . . .

Intellectual Honesty is a powerful plus.