President Obama reportedly will select Jeh Johnson to succeed Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Johnson is a New York lawyer. He served as General Counsel of the Defense Department during Obama’s first term.

I’m not a fan of Johnson, with whom I had some slight, peripheral contact when I practiced law. I criticized his manipulative role in ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” here.

I expected that Johnson would succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General when the lawless one finally stepped down. I’m glad he won’t be assuming that position (at least not anytime soon).

But head of DHS in some ways is an even more important post. And I don’t find it encouraging that late last year, addressing the Oxford Union, Johnson declared: “Now that the efforts by the U.S. military against al Qaeda are in their 12th year, we must ask ourselves, how will this conflict end?”

Soon afterwards, Obama echoed the sentiment, saying: “This war, like all wars, must end” and “We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us.”

Unfortunately, the fight against terrorism is defined by what terrorists attempt to accomplish. Thus, as much as we would like to, we cannot “define the nature and scope of this struggle;” nor can we end it because we think it’s high time for it to end. If we wish to fight terrorism successfully, we must be prepared to combat it in all of its forms, with special focus on the terrorists’ methods of choice, which are always evolving.

Johnson doesn’t seem temperamentally suited to this work. Like Obama, he is too prone to ask “are we there yet?”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/20...28Power+Line%29

This guy id a POS in the mold of Zero and Holder. The GOP better knock this radical down, but they won't because he is black and they are afraid to call out black people.

"Jeh". How exactly is that pronounced?

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"Jeh". How exactly is that pronounced?

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"Jeh". How exactly is that pronounced?

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"Jeh". How exactly is that pronounced?

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Not sure how it's pronounced, but my African friends tell me that in Swahili it roughly translates to "hate whitey".

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According to a bio on the web it is a Liberian name,and the name of a Liberian man that saved the live of his grandfather when he was in Liberia working as a communist agitator. The grandfather named his son Jeh,and his son named this goober Jeh.

BTW,the web bio didn't state "communist agitator",but once you boil down what they did say,that's who he was and what he was doing.

MY best guess about what it means is "Big sissy bathhouse dancer wearing a boa."

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Thanks for the information. Communists from Africa. Imagine that!

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Thanks for the information. Communists from Africa. Imagine that!

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Actually,the people in Liberia are African slaves that were returned to Africa after the War of Northern Aggression. My memory is a little sketchy here,but Lincoln wanted to return them all to Africa,but there was no money in the budget for it. IIRC,the ones that did go back there and establish Liberia either paid their own way,or Abolitionists paid it. Once again,relying on bad memory,I THINK the Abolitionists bought a couple of ships to ship them there on multiple trips.

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...after the War of Northern Aggression.

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I have little knowledge of Liberia, but what you said is similar to what I remember.

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I have little knowledge of Liberia, but what you said is similar to what I remember.

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W.E.B Dubois and Grandpaw Johnson were associates,and this was in the early days of the NAACP. Dubois,was a life-long communist. A very bright man,but a total freaking fool.

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