Help Wanted: One Risk-Taking State Department Employee

Amid word that Obama has drafted a letter to Iran which may or may not be sent comes word of this stalled Bush initiative with which I can easily see Obama going forward.

In its dying days, the Bush administration was planning to open a US interests section in the Iranian capital Tehran, one step down from an embassy. Bush's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, said that never happened because attention was diverted by the Russian invasion of Georgia. Others say that rightwingers in the Bush administration mounted a rearguard action to block it.

As for the position cited in my headline, someone born after the Carter presidency might be best.

Comments

[Kat]

Someone that will speak truth to power. Take on 'The One' and reject the kool-aid.

[jharp]

You guys had better tune into ElRushbo tomorrow and get your marching orders.

Wingnuttia is in crises mode. I'm telling you, crises.

And the leader of the GOP, the three time divorced druggie, Limbo is The One for those on the right.

Pretty gosh darn amusing to me. He's The One who took you to the dance. Is it time for you to leave him standing alone?

[mark l.]

considering the State departments unwillingness to staff Iraq, I'm not getting a picture of people jumping out of there seats to go to Iran.

[WBestPresidentEver]

I am so glad that the Presidential Bush Whitehouse.org page is still available.
I can always remember now the good times and how America used to be
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/
before it was taken over by a cult.

You go to the New page for the White House now and it all propaghada all the time. In your face, socialism, in your face lies and in your face, do as I say. I am the one. I won. We will have a new world order now.

One lady yesterday in an article even said that Barrack Hussein Obama was the most famous person ever in the existance of the world.
I wanted to vomit.

Meanwhile....we are screwed for the next 4 years. Bend over.

[Lala]

Talk about cultish behavior, I got this yesterday. Is it true? Does the little boy not want to go back to school because he's afraid of the man in the photo staring out at him?

"Pledge of Allegiance Becomes Pledge to Obama
By Alan Gray, NewsBlaze

A parent in the Clark County School District of Las Vegas, Henderson area reported today that his son, who is in 1st grade, came home yesterday saying that he didn't want to go back to school anymore.

When asked why, the boy said that during the Pledge of Allegiance the teacher put up a large image of Obama next to the flag.

Thinking that the boy might be exaggerating, the man asked his son if he was sure, and suggested that by "large" he might mean an 8x10 photo of the president. The boy apparently said "No, it is a large picture of Obama and when we are done, the teacher turns off the image."

The same thing was not done for President Bush last year.

After investigating this morning, the other parent reported that what the boy said was true.

At least three of the five classrooms have an overhead projector and as the children stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the teacher turns on the classroom overhead and a full body image of Obama, with six U.S. flags behind him, comes up about 4 feet away from the flag that hangs on the wall. The screen is apparently around five feet by six feet.

In the image, President Obama appears to be staring straight out with no facial expression, just a serious look. All of the kids in each class faced the President, instead of the flag that hangs in the corner.

Local parents are up in arms over this situation. Teachers clearly do not realize the gravity of what they are doing"

[templar knight]

"Teachers clearly do not realize the gravity of what they are doing."

Yes, they do, Lala. They know exactly what they are doing. It's called building a cult of personality, much like what they have in No. Korea. Obama is now "our dear leader". Pukeworthy!

[mark l.]

if there is a god, he make sure Joe Wilson gets the Iranian post.

There's no one I would rather see held hostage for 444 days.