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Barack goes on ‘Meet The Press’

He talked mostly about the economy, of course, and it was all as eminently sensible and intelligent as ever. You can watch the interview in multiple parts on MSNBC.com – but here was the opening segment:

Barack also used Meet The Press to announce his announcement (as it were) of Eric Shinseki as Veterans Secretary. General Shinseki was given the boot from the Bush administration in 2003 after disagreeing with Donald Rumsfeld over the number of troops needed in Iraq – he was, of course, right, and Rumsfeld was wrong – so his return to the White House is brilliantly poetic.

Here were Obama and Shinseki at the announcement of his appointment yesterday (which was, coincidentally – or maybe not – the anniversary of Pearl Harbour):


*Update* You can watch the full episode of Meet The Press here.

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