Failed. Obama. Presidency.

The Horror:

President-elect Barack Obama has decided to keep Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in his post, a show of bipartisan continuity in a time of war that will be the first time a Pentagon chief has been carried over from a president of a different party, Democrats close to the transition said Tuesday.

Mr. Obama’s advisers were nearing a formal agreement with Mr. Gates to stay on for perhaps a year, the Democrats said, and they expected to announce the decision as early as next week, along with other choices for the national security team. The two sides have been working out details on how Mr. Gates would wield authority in a new administration.

The move will give the new president a defense secretary with support on both sides of the aisle in Congress, as well as experience with foreign leaders around the world and respect among the senior military officer corps. But two years after President Bush picked him to lead the armed forces, Mr. Gates will now have to pivot from serving the commander in chief who started the Iraq war to serving one who has promised to end it.

Here it is, Day Minus Fifty Five, and Obama has already torn our world asunder.  There's simply not enough Yummy Nougaty Change coming from our Pre-President from where I sit: #44 must literally burn down the WH and appoint only female ferrets to truly realize his Fantabulous Legacy Of Great Disproportionate Alterations To The Fabric Of Our Republic.

I feel tricked and swindled and very taken advantage of.  I want my money back.  And a nice chianti.

ntodd