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December 1st at 12:01PM

President-Elect Obama Announces His Super Secret National Security Team

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio


Well, Barack Obama just gave his (by my count) 413th press conference since being elected as the next president. This time around, it was to introduce his national security team.

The rundown goes like this...

* Attorney General: Eric Holder - AKA black guy with moustache

* National Security Advisor: Gen. James L. Jones - AKA clean-cut, avuncular white guy

* Secretary of Homeland Security: Janey Napolitano - AKA Hobbit woman

* Secretary of Defense: Robert Gates - AKA token Republican

* Ambassador to the United Nations: Susan Rice - AKA pixie woman

And, of course, the big surprise was his choice for Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton. Wow! What a shocker! I never, ever in a billion years would have guessed that one. Amazing, how they managed to keep a lid on that choice for all these weeks, with no leaks to the press or anything!

Man, you'd think a choice like Hillary Clinton would have dominated the news cycle for the past three weeks, rendering the actual announcement as little more than a boring bit of extra news that just gets stuck at the end of a really not all that funny post that most people probably aren't even going to read till the end.

Yep. Exciting news.

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by Hilo December 10th at 11:19AM
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November 25th at 8:21PM

From the Pork Barrel: Turns Out Torture's Bad For You After All

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

* Pulling out of the running for Director of the CIA must be torture for John Brennan.

* Secretary of Defense Robert Gates only known American to keep job through the year.

* AIG isn't blowing money like it's coke. AIG is still blowing money like it's coke.

* Assumption confirmed: Republicans like assholes.

* GOP ad man went out of his way to avoid racism in anti-Obama ads. How racist!

* Michael Bloomberg sticking around this shithole we call New York City after all.

* Wanna hear a good one? McCain 2012.

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