Some friends have been compiling a tally of the rats. Please add your own additions in comments.
The Rats
- Arne Carlson (former governor of Minnesota)
- Scott McClellan
- William Weld
- Colin Powell
- Kenneth "Cakewalk" Adelman
- Chris Buckley
- Kathleen Parker
- David Brooks ("...what disappoints me about the McCain campaign is it has no central argument...")
- Charles Fried (a recent adviser to McCain!!)
Frankly, watching all of these denizens of the shadows gathering around Obama concerns me greatly. The Clinton-era foreign policy and national security people Brooks likes and endorses as Obama advisers... Anthony Lake? Ish!
But now, all of these rightist and jingoist promoters of war are coming into the fold too.
At least Charles Krauthammer has enough honor to go down with the Commander.
Krauthammer: Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the last year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?We can expect the likes of Krauthhammer to remain on high alert against Obama. They will be ready to spring traps, hype faux outrage, yell about the tiniest attempts to de-rig the system away from the favor of the rich, stamp out any notion of fairness for the Palestinians, insure jingoist consensus, and, yes, holler "impeach!" if given the slightest excuse.
What fun this will be.
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