Could somebody please explain Obama's thinking on this? Rosa Brooks???

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Hello All, I am terribly unnerved by Obama's appointment of George Soros lackey, and left-wing columnist Rosa Brooks as an "Advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy". "In what has to be one of the most extreme appointments yet by the Obama Administration, ex-Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks has just been made an adviser to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy - a move Brooks describes as "my personal government bailout. "Bailout is certainly the right word for someone who appears to have no relevant national security qualifications for the position. She does though have experience working as Special Counsel for George Soros's Open Society Institute in New York, and as a former adviser to Harold Koh, the hugely controversial nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department." http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/rosa-brooks-antiwar-radical-appointed.html Brooks is known for her extreme views, seething contempt for George W. Bush, his administration, the military, and anyone who doesn't agree with her points of view. How then is she to fit in with Obama's promise of bi-partisanship and unity? This is the same woman who regularly compared George W. Bush to Adolph Hitler in print. Appointing Brooks is not so unlike a Bush appointment of media personality Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity as an advisor to the Defense Department. Would anyone on the left be OK with Rush being appointed in an official capacity, to a position of unmatched influence in our Defense Department and federal government? She is wholly unqualified for the position. So, why has Obama appointed her to a post with that much influence to shape the policy of this administration? What's even more troubling is the haunting question: Do we really want such a vile, hateful, extremist directly affecting our national policies? What the heck is Obama thinking? "Socialist Brooks new boss Flournoy holds one of the most powerful posts in the Pentagon. As an advisor to Flournoy, Brooks will yield the next primary degree of influence in helping shape US policy. Socialist Brooks will hold a security clearance higher than most Congressmen and Senators." http://speaknowamerica.org/2009/04/21/rosa-brooks-appointed-to-advisory-position-at-pentagon.aspx [i]"“Brooks' description of the previous occupant of the White House as "our torturer in chief" is hard to square with President Obama's call for bipartisanship. Nor is her ludicrous comparison of the Bush Administration's legal arguments on the war on terror with Adolf Hitler's use of political propaganda.” “Brooks has compared being a citizen in George W. Bush's America "to being a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver," and compared the Bush Administration ("our local authoritarians") to the leaders of North Korea or Iran.” “Let's hope this is isn't the kind of advice the new administration takes on for the war in Afghanistan. In fact it is hard to think of a more inappropriate political appointment at a time when America needs a hard-headed approach to winning a global war instead of defeatist, far-left rhetoric.” http://noise.typepad.com/peoples_politics/2009/04/rosa-brooks.html What in the world was Gates or Obama or Fluornoy, whoever was responsible for this appointment, thinking? This choice is so bad even some Europeans think it is crazy. I wonder why (as of this writing) I haven’t seen anything in the American MSM about it?"[/i] [b] This is the same hack whose final column in the LA Times outlined the need for taxpayers to 'bail-out' the failing newspaper industry![/b] http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks9-2009apr09,1,4863536.column [i]"With that reasoning in mind - that the government needs to pay for its own watchdog is reason for the government to bailout failing her brand of print journalism. "It's time for a government bailout of journalism," Brooks declared. Governments have long been involved with the journalism industry. Brooks may prefer the Canadian and British styles, but some of the more famous examples include Pravda, the journalistic organ of the Soviet Union and the official media outlets of the Chinese government - China Central Television (CCTV), Xinhua - the state-run news agency and People's Daily - the news outlet of the China's Communist Party." http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/04/09/la-times-columnists-farewell-bail-out-journalism-[/i]0 ___________________________________________________________________________________ [b]My questions to you are: 1. Am I the only one wondering what the heck is going on with this new administration? 2. Should this hack be "bailed out" (her own words) and thus become a paid civil servant, when her history shows that she only 'serves' the approximate 10% -30% of Americans who embrace the hard left, George Soros, model of a socialist America? 3. Should this woman get the boot before she has a chance to do irreparable damage? Thanks, I'm looking forward to reading all of your responses.[/b]