Is it just me, or are cabinet appointments like a game of musical chairs. Latest appointment is Leon Panetta as CIA chief. And what makes him qualified to be in charge of the CIA? Well, he was Clinton's Chief of Staff.
It seems as if Obama simply called up a whole bunch of ex-Clinton cabinet members, and then just gave them all new jobs. This guy was chief of staff last time, ok...we'll make him CIA director this time. "Everybody get up and move one chair to the left...."
And what's sad is it seems that the Bush Administration wasn't much different.....many of them were former Reagan and Ford cabinet members, and they too all got new jobs totally unrelated to their old ones.
Am I the only one who thinks the CIA chief should be someone who has spent a good amount of their life working in intelligence? Or should the Secretary of Defense actually be someone with some military experience? Or should the Secretary of State be someone who actually has worked at the State Department?
Instead we get former Generals as Secretary of State, people with no military experience as Secretary of Defense, former oil execs as National Security Advisor, and someone with absolutely no executive experience of any kind as head of FEMA. It makes no sense.
Imagine if a football coach filled his starting lineup this way. This guy punted last year...let's make him a wide receiver this year.....this guy was a defensive end last year....let's make him a kick returner this year...
We have a bunch of Washington insiders who simply trade favors, and very few of them are qualified to do the job they are given. Add the continuous corruption and lobbying that goes on in Washington, and it's no wonder that we end up with the results we get.
