Mark Lippert, Key Foreign Policy Adviser, Leaves White House

Newsweek:

Big news from the West Wing: Mark Lippert, one of President Obama's closest foreign policy advisers, is leaving to rejoin the Navy. Lippert, who is deputy national security adviser and chief of staff of the National Security Council, has worked for Obama since his first days in the Senate and later advised him during the campaign...

Read the whole story: Newsweek

Comments

[keepemhonest]

09:24 AM on 10/02/2009

To: Drooling Rightwingers,

from the comments on this blog it is CLEAR that NONE of you Droolers read the 1st paragraph - let alone the article.

Lippert is leaving to go BACK TO active duty as a Navy SEAL ... Thus, Lippert is hardly leaving Obama.

[stargazer13]

03:21 AM on 10/02/2009

some thing has started

[keepemhonest]

09:19 AM on 10/02/2009

um... the guy is leaving to rejoin the Navy - Thus, he is NOT leaving at all.

[jimme]

09:25 AM on 10/02/2009

And what would that "some thing" be oh wise one ?

Don't be a tease and try to start a controversy when there isn't one.

[skymuffin]

02:56 AM on 10/02/2009

Maybe this is like when those executives leave "to spend more time with their families." Hmmm...

[jimme]

09:26 AM on 10/02/2009

Unless his family is in the Navy I don't think he'll be spending much time with them.
Another tr011 trying to make something out of nothing.

[OT]

02:49 AM on 10/02/2009

He (the advisor) wanted to be like pre-Election Obama
not Current (THE Real Obama) Republican.
so he is not a republican so Obama says he is out.

[Kaviraj]

08:04 AM on 10/02/2009

You are delusional

[keepemhonest]

09:20 AM on 10/02/2009

You clearly did NOT read the paragraph ... Lippert is leaving to rejoin the Navy - thus, hardly leaving obama.

[Lori Bowles]

02:08 AM on 10/02/2009

Does this mean there is a job opening ????I'll take it, I wonder how long the line will be to fill it, because I could definatley use a bump in my benifits and salary.

[stargazer13]

03:18 AM on 10/02/2009

me too

[foxisms]

11:18 PM on 10/01/2009

Opportunist!

[LeftOfCenter44]

11:03 PM on 10/01/2009

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[Lahonda]

09:39 PM on 10/01/2009

Maybe he needs a "Negotiator-in-Chief" somewhere in the Tora Bora?

Sheesh! Tom Clancy would make a mint on this twist in a story!

That is, if it weren't real...

[Kaviraj]

07:57 AM on 10/02/2009

TomClancey is a third rate writer of formula plots. Glad Obama is of a different calibre.

[DFL]

08:12 PM on 10/01/2009

Barack wants only the best and this guy didn't live up to that standard.

[fallingsky]

10:04 PM on 10/01/2009

SPLATTTT ...... i have to clean off my screen as soda spewed out my nose and mouth in hysterical laughter ,,,, Oh , you are serious

[LeftOfCenter44]

11:05 PM on 10/01/2009

Before you criticize anyone else, you might want to learn to drink from a big kid cup.

[DCPolitics]

08:10 PM on 10/01/2009

The most powerful LTJG in the Navy !!!!

[jordan327]

07:17 PM on 10/01/2009

The rats are jumping ship.

[MaybeMilo]

07:35 PM on 10/01/2009

Either that, or Mr. Lippert is expressing the ultimate level of trust in his Commander in Chief.

[jordan327]

08:12 PM on 10/01/2009

That.

[keepemhonest]

10:08 AM on 10/02/2009

Jordan,

You clearly did NOT read the article ... or the first sentence for that matter.

Lippert is rejoining the Navy ... Since Obama IS Commander over the Navy - Lippert is hardly jumping ship ... Lippert will STILL be working under Obama's command.

[CoronaDischarge]

07:12 PM on 10/01/2009

I think he is to be commended for his service, and for knowing what makes him feel actualized. I can't blame him for not wanting to stay in Washington. Look at the climate of shrill hysteria that gets reflexively raised by the oppositional Republicans for any move the Administration makes. At least in the war theater the enemies are external.

[keepemhonest]

10:09 AM on 10/02/2009

good post.

[Ramirez]

06:40 PM on 10/01/2009

Lippert is a patriot who has served our nation with honor. The White House will miss his leadership and wise counsel.

[keepemhonest]

10:10 AM on 10/02/2009

Ram,

Lippert is rejoining the Navy - he will continue to serve this nation with honor and he will continue to serve the Commander In Chief (Obama) with honor.

[RRK70]

06:02 PM on 10/01/2009

The only thing I find fishy is the Navy SEAL part. Any Chair of the NSC has a security clearance that is so high that he is unlikely to be anywhere CLOSE to a combat zone, let alone behind enemy lines. If he is going to be reassigned as a SEAL then it is most likely going to be one behind a desk.

[serindipity803]

06:59 PM on 10/01/2009

He'll be up close and personal -- an that helps President Obama a lot!

[lj9283]

10:04 PM on 10/01/2009

Mr. Lippert IS a Navy Seal who from 2007 until the summer of 2008, he served about a year in what had been scheduled as a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq as an intelligence officer for the SEALs.

This is a return to duty as a SEAL

[faith]

10:53 PM on 10/01/2009

Sorry. NO WAY !!! Look at Mr. Lippert. It would be an embarrassment to the US Navy SEALS to have anyone who looked that out of shape. Well, maybe the camera just had an odd focus. But, for personal reasons I cannot imagine anyone, anyone at all with a double chin and such posture as being or have been a SEAL. I know one that has just got to be rolling his eyes at the shape that guy is in ! UGH !!

[respectingothers]

05:47 PM on 10/01/2009

There's always more to the story than what makes it in the news