Chuck Hagel Official Obama Nominee for Secretary of Defense

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On this blog, I consider something blogworthy if it a) interests me in some way, or b) is newsworthy. This is a b) story all the way. I don't get what the heck is so wrong with Hagel. He's a Republican, I know, but seems like one of the (rare) normal ones. He made a couple of questionable statements a decade or more ago? Pffft. Sorry, can't raise to caring on this one. He's fine.

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Digging in for confirmation fight, Obama nominates Hagel to head Pentagon, Brennan for the CIA
Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon and anti-terrorism chief John Brennan as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency. . .

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