So, the appointment of George Mitchell as Middle East envoy is great news for possibilities of peace. After his success in Northern Ireland and his amazingly fair and balanced, the real kind, report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 2001, there might be hope for peace. It seems that Obama is willing to speak with everyone.
The disappointment comes from NY Governor David Paterson: the appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand to Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat.
This is another Democrat in the Senate who is anti-gun control and until just a few weeks ago, anti-gay marriage. However, I admit I made a mistake: Gillibrand is supposed to be pro-choice. However, when running she was less than clear as to her views on abortionand access to birth control and medically accurate information.
She did vote against the TARP. Twice.
Unfortunately, Paterson went for a political choice instead of an inspired one. He made a choice so that his re election campaign was more important than having a strong advocate to match Hillary Clinton's views in the Senate.
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What is truly incredible is that the New York Governor stated he wanted to appoint a woman. Why? Because this Senate seat had been held by a woman? Was this Senate seat a woman's seat? Like there are Asian seats? White man seats? Hispanic seats? African American seats? Or perhaps he wanted to appoint someone just like Hillary Clinton? And in his limited view the only person just like Hillary was a woman?
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