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Obama's political appointments continue to confound. While I can't say I've approved of some of his choices for his cabinet, this one seems to be a winner: Obama will pick Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu as his Secretary of Energy.
Chu won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” He is Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which does unclassified scientific research. Chu is noted for pushing for the development of technologies to reduce the impact of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. [Source: Wikipedia]
He's a real, honest-to-goodness scientist, who understands climate change is real, and he's NOT a professional politician. I've never heard of him before, but if he's as promising as his bio on Wikipedia says, we're FINALLY getting some grownups in the White House!
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Chu won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” He is Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which does unclassified scientific research. Chu is noted for pushing for the development of technologies to reduce the impact of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. [Source: Wikipedia]
He's a real, honest-to-goodness scientist, who understands climate change is real, and he's NOT a professional politician. I've never heard of him before, but if he's as promising as his bio on Wikipedia says, we're FINALLY getting some grownups in the White House!
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i love you Obama.
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Gates is in Afghanistan (in case you didn't know). He has been talking to both US and Canadian commanders and had appreciative things to say about Canada's involvement and our losses there (we just reached 100 soldiers dead). I don't know much about him, except that everygay I know seems to hate him. How much of that is his personality/positions and how much of it came from working for Shrub Jr.?
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Dunno, probably a lot from association with the Shrub. People want to believe that Obama will get us out of the wars we're in, but The Complex still holds sway over the military, and now Obama has the same Secretary of Defense as under President Daddy-Avenger.
Gates is definitely a bitter pill for the anti-war left to swallow.
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i <3 obama so much...
if he weren't married and i wasn't with george, i'd totally be his monica lewinsky. =}