WAIT........did the Clintons get re-elected?
WHAT THE HELL DOES LEON PENETTA KNOW ABOUT FIGHTING TERRORISM?
Well, based on the fact that the U.S. military, CIA and FBI each has been responsible for the arrest, detention, imprisonment, and/or rendition of people who had nothing to do with terrorism, I would guess that Leon Panetta (not Penetta) probably doesn't know much less than the people who supposedly do--these idiots who have the Homeland Security warning level at orange month after month after month for no apparent reason and with declining effectiveness among the American public. (How many Americans even know what the homeland security threat level is, let alone what it means? The only reason why I know is that I fly relatively often on our still unsafe airlines and through our still unsafe airports guest of the TSA charades.) And it's not as if he just showed up from Peru or something. He was a long-time Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, etc. I think it's about time that someone in power who is INTELLIGENT (unlike 8 years of Bush) takes a fresh look at what is and what is not, and who is and who is not, a real threat to the United States. Airport perimeters are still not secured. Ports are still not secured. Chemical plants and hydroelectric dams are still not secured. Yet hundreds of millions have gone for homeland security in a whole bunch of states such as North Dakota.
As for whether the Clintons got re-elected, apparently not. But if you think so, you would also think that George H.W. Bush got re-elected with George W. Bush, given how the latter packed the White House, cabinet, and subcabinet jobs by recycling people from the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations? Did the Bushes get re-elected in 2000? Yes, in more ways than one, but it's too bad that the son was so stupid, ideological, mindlessly religious, lazy, etc., that he made his father look like Abe Lincoln by comparison.