After listening to portions of the Senate hearings I do understand why everyone on the left wants to keep reminding us that he had been a republican (notwithstanding him supporting Obama over his "ol' senate buddy" McCain) heck we prefer not to claim him either. What I don't understand is why he was nominated in the first place.
As a veteran, I see this as "officer elitism" on the part of McCain. How dare a 'mere enlisted man' run a department no one would think of giving The Admiral™.
Hagel has seen death. McCain got a room at the S&M Hanoi Hilton.
I hate old white men with power, real or imagined.
Yeah, he was against Rice so much because she mocked McCain's trip to Iraq in 2008 wearing all that protective gear during his tour of Baghdad, after he was screaming to the top of his lungs during the Presidential campaign how much more safe the country was due to the surge.
The media gets its stories from events, and things that people say. There haven't been any Republicans who have expressed concern that their party is divided?
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Bipartisanship has to start somewhere and it ain't gonna happen on the right side of the aisle, bro.
Hagel is a good man, one of the few Repubs I respected. He will do a fine job.
The GOP, not so much.
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When the other guy's idea of bipartisanship and compromise is total capitulation...
Being a "good" man is not the primary qualification for much of anything in politics, or at least so it seems.
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Are you indicating that rigidity and polarization among politicos are what the country needs? "My party, right or wrong"
Indeed.... I'm sure there are things Hagel disagrees with both sides of the aisle. This is a bad thing because....?
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Hagel has seen death. McCain got a room at the S&M Hanoi Hilton.
I hate old white men with power, real or imagined.
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McCain never forgot that.
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I can't believe you made me dig back and find this...
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He made a comment about Republicans. I commented back about the GOP in response to his comment.
He asked "who brought Republicans into the conversation?"
I sent him his link, displaying he should have known it was him.
Is there an issue?
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Pst! You were responding to the OP.
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