Obama says, "Terrorists are still plotting...." (Video)

Well, this is all about the bad news out of Afghanistan. For me, terrorists will ALWAYS BE PLOTTING, the thing for the United States is to thwart it so it is not able to magnify. Continuing a war in Afghanistan, eventually, is a no win situation for this President. The domestic front is riddled with problems, people see the government continuing to spend money on wars that are becoming a vapor for some, unemployment has magnified but the real scare is that there are NO JOBS out here. For many Afghanistan is just more money being spent for what? Oh, yes, Osama bin Laden. If found, or if he is alive, would be a physical win and we can shut all this down. But if we never find him, are we going to continue on this course and continue to spend, as Barack Obama has said, "10 billion dollars a month?"

Eventually, all this needs to END.

President Obama at the National Counter Terrorism Center outside of Washington, D.C.



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Obama press conference, taps Blair, Panetta to head Intelligence (CIA) - Video, Transcript

First, Obama talks about the 7.2 unemployment rise in this country.

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Ret Admiral Dennis Blair picked Director of National Intelligence.

President-elect Barack Obama has settled on retired Adm. Dennis Blair to fill the nation's top intelligence job, congressional officials knowledgeable about the decision said today.

Blair, the former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, would become the nation's third director of national intelligence, succeeding Mike McConnell as the leader of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. He had been the rumored front-runner for the job for several weeks.

"It's definitely Blair," said one congressional official who had been briefed on the selection. Both sources spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Obama transition team declined comment.

Blair, if confirmed in the post, would be the second retired naval flag officer to hold the post, after McConnell. Some members of Congress, in internal discussions with the Obama team, had objected to the appointment of another career military officer to head the country's civilian-run intelligence establishment.

Ultimately, however, resistance to the selection faded as Blair impressed Republican and Democratic lawmakers with his knowledge of the intelligence agencies and ideas for streamlining and improving the often unwieldy U.S. intelligence apparatus, the sources said. Blair had served during the Clinton administration as a military liaison at the CIA in charge of coordinating intelligence between the spy agency and Pentagon.

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