Posted on 07/24/2008 7:00:09 AM PDT by kristinn
With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition.
"Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational challenge involved in the transition process and he has tasked s small group to begin thinking through the process,” a senior campaign adviser said. “Barack has made his expectations clear about what he wants from such a process, how he wants it to move forward, and the establishment and execution of his timeline is proceeding apace.”
Last month, the Post’s Chris Cillizza reported that campaign advisers were sounding out John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and currently the president of the Center for American Progress, for his advice.
An aide confirms that Podesta will probably be asked to head the transition team, which would take over from the campaign if Obama wins in November, and would be tasked with ensuring a smooth handover of power.
Podesta’s Center for American Progress is working with the Third Way think tank on a Homeland Security Presidential Transition Initiative; its director is Michael Signer, a former senior policy aide to Ex-Sen. John Edwards.
Cassandra Butts, a longtime Obama friend who is a CAP executive vice president, is working closely with Podesta.
Butts, via e-mail, would not confirm her participation in the project.
Podesta remains a close friend of both Clintons and his participation will help assuage the concerns of Clinton-era Democratic policy and political appointees who might have felt abandoned in an Obama administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
Excellent point. Puts me in mind of that scene in Lord of the Rings where the “free peoples” are arguing with one another at the council meeting while Frodo sees the vision of his home being destroyed.
“...They have already surrendered to a radical left ...”
I didn’t. And won’t. Obviously, neither did/will you.
Keep the faith, brother.
“...By Nov, people are either gonna be so numb from nearly 2 YEARS of this political masturbation that theyll pull the lever just to make him go away, or to just get it over with...”
Which makes the case all the more for us to do OUR job and convince 10 people (each) what/who Obama really is and who the people pulling his strings are.
Set it as a goal; 10 people each. Inside our personal spheres of influence, we all come in contact with AT LEAST 10 people each day.
Start pushing now, if you haven’t already, and I mean pushing beyond Free Republic. Most of us out here are conservative Patriots anyway; we’re informed, so it’s our duty, obligation, and responsibility as Citizens to inform those who aren’t.
Some will listen, some won’t. But try anyway.
Movements START because people PUSH them.
LFOD, indeed, brother (and Sister Jo!!!!).
Duncan Hunter was my choice. I supported him until the day he officially dropped out of the race. I disagree with McCain on a myriad of issues, but I will support him because I do not want radical leftist Barack Obama elected.
Thanks in large part to ACORN's morgue registrations, they feel they have a solid enough lead in the polls to go ahead and call this one. After all, NBC, CBS and ABC have already declared him the winner, elections are such diminutive formalities these days.
Whats the quote? Jumping off a cliff with flags waiving is still jumping off a cliff.....
So, he's going to go a head and change the election cycle...maybe just declare himself the leader forevermore?
What a dunce this guy is. How Democrats can not see what a moron they have chosen to run for president is so far beyond me it is utterly amazing.
At least I am fighting the radical left and not giving up. Why are you mocking people who are patriotic on this website . I think you need to go back to the DU for that kind of trashing of American talk.
” disagree with McCain on a myriad of issues, but I will support him because I do not want radical leftist Barack Obama elected.”
>>>>>>>>>>>................
let us hope some sanity hits the GOP and they drop McCain and add a great man like Duncan..at this point McCain will insure the election of the O BUM A.
First I will admit to not being a math whiz. Out of $13,310 rent paid in a year, our property taxes paid were $2396...on something we didn’t even own of course, renters pay the landlord’s property taxes.
Now owning a home with an acre of property, our property taxes are $2600 (out of NJ, otherwise it would be near triple that!), seems a bit comparable.
I agree about how income taxes are collected, but not that only landowners should be allowed to vote.
Does he intend to abide by the election results or will he assume power even if he loses?
Even Dewey waited until October to plan his “transition”. Maybe the American people are unaware of how much Oprah’s Obama will cost them in perks, pensions, etc. Perhaps they could not understand even if so informed.
"Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that “the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years."
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/07/20/obama-ill-be-president-for-the-next-8-to-10-years/
“Obama’s propagandists have the audacity of thinking smart, thinking big....and thinking ahead.”
You got that right. And they have the Hollywood film propagandists aiding and abetting Obama’s campaign with video, staging, and highlighting of Obama in the best possible light. Leni Reisenthal would be proud. The Obama camp is running a marvelous campaign propaganda machine.
Obama is a weaker candidate than either Kerry or Gore.
I just don’t see him winning this election. It’s John McLame’s to win or lose.
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