“Aides say he originally planned to select someone with experience…” NYT, 1/5/09

Barack Obama “wanted” to select someone with experience to head the CIA. He really did. And some of us had hoped to select a President with a little as well. Apparently experience is overrated in this current political climate. You don’t need it to be the Senator of New York, or the Commander in Chief. Why should you for the head post at the CIA?

When Barack Obama pondered his recent decision to place Leon Panera Bread in charge of the CIA (aka Leon Panetta by inhuman search robots), he chose someone who knows little of the inner workings of the Agency. He has one politically correct viewpoint that he can hang onto relating to torture, and we know how much waterboarding Democrats can inflict upon a President who dares set up a detention and interrogation program to deal with terrorists. No! Let them come! Let them bomb! We can deal with all that later in a court of law, and think of all the evidence we’ll have then, torture free!

Obama wanted to select John O. Brennan, but he had been there during that debacle of failed policy that used interrogation as a tool to shut down terrorist activity across America in states such as Deleware and Alaska! For all the times Obama used that catch phrase to help him get elected, how embarrassing would it be to have to select someone who had helped make it all such a success, or… failure, wasn’t it? Yeah.

Words are tricky that way. If you start talking on the national stage about the “Great Depression of 2008” in front of millions of illiterate children, you may come to find that people stop buying cars, and stop filling them up as regularly with your tax-burdened fuel. They might start selling off stocks faster than you can say change. But it’s too early to start encouraging people to buy into our economy again. Economic improvement won’t count for Barack officially until January 20, will it? So let’s hold off just a little while longer. Although he has done quite well in his position at the O. of T.P.E., so we might just give him the credit he so richly deserves. (Watch for the movie showing actors depicting their own lives as they struggle to deal with falling mansion values, and cut backs on plastic surgery.)

If all it takes is one strong politically correct viewpoint to snag a position one is otherwise unqualified for, I feel bad for the Supreme Court, as we might see Nancy becoming Justice Pelosi solely on the basis of her positions against Parental Notification and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.