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CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security
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riker 
make it so
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11/19/2008 10:00 PM
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Just on CNN - Janet Napolitano being vetted for Secretary of Homeland Security.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Janet Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, and a member of the Democratic Party, originally elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. She is Arizona's third female governor, and the first woman to win re-election. In November 2005, Time magazine named her one of the five best governors in the U.S.[1] She served as the Chair of the National Governors Association in 2006-2007.[2] In February 2006, Napolitano was named by The White House Project as one of "8 in '08", a group of eight female politicians who could possibly run and/or be elected president in 2008.[3] On November 5th, 2008, Napolitano was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.[4] She is widely considered as a potential member of Obama's cabinet, likely as either Attorney General[5] or Homeland Security Secretary.[6]
So this is how liberty dies.... with thunderous applause. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:03 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
We are doomed. |
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Freethinker
Human Advocate
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11/19/2008 10:17 PM
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Why wasn't James Witt considered for this job? He is by far the best for Homeland Security.
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:18 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
why wouldnt he make her attorney general
homeland security post should be someone with knowledge of military |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 554968
11/19/2008 10:18 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
I don't see what the problem is? Why, because she's a women? A Democrat? she seems to be fairly popular in her home state...
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:19 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
I don't see what the problem is? Why, because she's a women? A Democrat? she seems to be fairly popular in her home state...
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she looks like a MAN |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:21 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
She has a first hand understanding of border issues. She really can see Mexico from Arizona......My Parents live South of Tucson. There is such a problem with illegal immigration, drug running etc. Ms. Napolitano represents a very concerned state and knows the problems first hand.
I think she is a great choice. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:23 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
Why wasn't James Witt considered for this job? He is by far the best for Homeland Security. Quoting: Freethinker
I agree. Perhaps they will find a position for him elsewhere...
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
James Lee Witt (born January 6, 1944) was Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the administration of President Bill Clinton.
Witt was born in Paris, Arkansas, and was raised in Dardanelle, in Yell County, Arkansas. He founded a construction business in 1968. At 34, he was elected County Judge of Yell County. Witt was re-elected to the post six times and was recognized by the National Association of Counties for his work. Witt was a charter Board Chairman of Child Development Inc., which works to advance Head Start programs.
In 1988, Witt was appointed by then-Governor Bill Clinton to be the head of the Arkansas Office of Emergency Services where he reorganized the state's emergency management process.
When Clinton was elected President, he appointed Witt to head FEMA, for which Witt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1993.
During his tenure, Clinton elevated FEMA to cabinet status, and Witt overturned FEMA's previously poor reputation. A 1992 interim report by the Congress (prior to Hurricane Andrew, which led to further criticism of FEMA) had said, "FEMA is widely viewed as a political dumping ground, a turkey farm, if you will, where large numbers of positions exist that can be conveniently and quietly filled by political appointment ..."[1]
By 1996, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial said, "FEMA has developed a sterling reputation for delivering disaster-relief services, a far cry from its abysmal standing before James Lee Witt took its helm in 1993. How did Witt turn FEMA around so quickly? Well, he is the first director of the agency to have emergency-management experience. He stopped the staffing of the agency by political patronage. He removed layers of bureaucracy. Most important, he instilled in the agency a spirit of preparedness, of service to the customer, of willingness to listen to ideas of local and state officials to make the system work better."[2]
Witt's term in office saw approximately 348 Presidentially declared disaster areas in more than 6,500 counties and in all 50 states and the U.S. territories. Witt supervised the response to the 1997 Red River Flood—the most costly flood in the nation's history at that time—the most costly earthquake, and a dozen serious hurricanes.
As of August 2007, Witt serves on the Management Team of Global Options Group LLC, as President of James Lee Witt Associates LLC, which provides consulting on emergency and disaster preparedness to local and state governments. Witt also served as CEO of the International Code Council, which sets international standards for building construction, 2003-06.
On September 3, 2005, he was hired
by Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to oversee reconstruction efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In December 2005, the University of Texas System hired his firm to prepare, process, and recover claims for damages from FEMA related to natural disasters.
Witt was mentioned as a potential candidate for Governor of Arkansas in 1997 but took himself out of consideration and stayed at FEMA until he was replaced by Joe Allbaugh, the first appointee of President George W. Bush. Witt has been mentioned as a possible Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. |
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I am Satya
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11/19/2008 10:23 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
I don't see what the problem is? Why, because she's a women? A Democrat? she seems to be fairly popular in her home state...
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she looks like a MAN Quoting: Anonymous Coward 542937
Get over it... ;}* |
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anonymous
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11/19/2008 10:25 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
she is a sad choice..she lacks military experiance...how about a 5 star general..i mean homeland security is a super major task now.. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:25 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
why wouldnt he make her attorney general
homeland security post should be someone with knowledge of military Quoting: Anonymous Coward 542937
Military is the LAST thing we want in Homeland Security!
It is all a bunch of BS anyway. The best thing would be if he were to erase/elminate this Nazi department of the Corporate U.S. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:26 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
why wouldnt he make her attorney general
homeland security post should be someone with knowledge of military Quoting: Anonymous Coward 542937
Her dealings with the illegal immigrant situation prompted the State of Arizona to take action rather than wait for the Federal Government (Homeland Security) to drag their "feet". |
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The Pasty Honkey
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11/19/2008 10:27 PM
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why wouldnt he make her attorney general
homeland security post should be someone with knowledge of military Quoting: Anonymous Coward 542937
That's good news for those against it then. Perhaps she'll run it like a good ole fashioned bureaucracy.
Also, is she related to that Judge on Fox News? You know, Andrew Napolitano or something? |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:27 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
is she a dyke? |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 10:27 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
Janet Reno II |
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Freethinker
Human Advocate
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11/19/2008 10:28 PM
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Mr Witt lives in the next county across the Arkansas River from me. Never a better man served in government.
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan |
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Apocalypse Troll 
Forum Moderator
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11/19/2008 10:28 PM
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We are doomed. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 554626
Yes.
Yes we are. |
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Freethinker
Human Advocate
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11/19/2008 10:30 PM
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Obama is striking out at the plate picking teammates...
How's that for a mixed metaphor?
"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan |
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Satya Palvonis
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11/19/2008 10:31 PM
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is she a dyke? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 259490
Get Ovuuuur it! |
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The Pasty Honkey
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11/19/2008 10:34 PM
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Obama is striking out at the plate picking teammates...
How's that for a mixed metaphor? Quoting: Freethinker
No kidding, here I was thinking we'd see an all brother and sister cast. He's really dissapointing me. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 554962
11/19/2008 10:49 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
Obama is striking out at the plate picking teammates...
How's that for a mixed metaphor?
No kidding, here I was thinking we'd see an all brother and sister cast. He's really dissapointing me. Quoting: The Pasty Honkey
Racist? |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 11:06 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
why wouldnt he make her attorney general
homeland security post should be someone with knowledge of military
Military is the LAST thing we want in Homeland Security!
It is all a bunch of BS anyway. The best thing would be if he were to erase/elminate this Nazi department of the Corporate U.S. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 554656
Amen.. hear, hear. |
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SunSpot
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11/19/2008 11:17 PM
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McCain can breathe a sigh of relief - talk was of Napolitano running for his Senate seat in 2010, and she had a good chance of winning. |
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The Pasty Honkey
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11/19/2008 11:24 PM
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Obama is striking out at the plate picking teammates...
How's that for a mixed metaphor?
No kidding, here I was thinking we'd see an all brother and sister cast. He's really dissapointing me.
Racist? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 554962
haha, I'm a Honkey... A Pasty Sarcastic one at that!
I don't really care, but it's strange he is picking people that seem like they belong in the Kremlin. |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 11:26 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
WOW!!
I made a thread about McCain long time ago that had tons of information about CANAM EX and Janet Napolitano's task force that has been in place since 2001 to ensure the development of the superhighway for canamex.
I can't find the thread anywhere. It had so much information on laws passed, and enforcement, and progject that has been in the works for years now. It all comes down to can a mex corridor for this selection. Sickening. Didn't matter who was elected though. The plan is in place and moving right along.
Can somebody please find that thread. It's completely gone. I looked all over for it. google is completely scrubbed for information concerning these relationships |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 11:32 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
I don't see what the problem is? Why, because she's a women? A Democrat? she seems to be fairly popular in her home state...
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Hell no, she is not popular here in AZ, unless you are a lesbian...that is.  Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 531497
11/19/2008 11:34 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
She has a first hand understanding of border issues. She really can see Mexico from Arizona......My Parents live South of Tucson. There is such a problem with illegal immigration, drug running etc. Ms. Napolitano represents a very concerned state and knows the problems first hand.
I think she is a great choice. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 551092
Yeah right...better do your research on her open border policy. But she does a lot of flip flopping depending on who she is pandering to.  |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 11:38 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
Janet Reno II Quoting: Anonymous Coward 435072
Correctomundo. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 531497
11/19/2008 11:39 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
is she a dyke? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 259490
BINGO! |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 11:41 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
fuck Reich-land Security |
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Anonymous Coward
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11/19/2008 11:42 PM | | Re: CNN: Obama selects Janet Napolitano Secretary - Homeland Security | Quote |
Under bo and co there will be a big push once again for the open border and giving illegals citizenship...all the bs that bush co tried to shove down our throats....they are gonna try, try again until they are successful. |
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