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OBAMA TEAM BEGINS WORK ON PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
The Atlantic ^ | Thursday, July 24, 2008 | Marc Ambinder

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 ...


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1 posted on 07/24/2008 7:00:09 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Sounds to me like they have already counted the votes.

Not too presumptuous, is he?


2 posted on 07/24/2008 7:02:50 AM PDT by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: kristinn

Big deal, this is probably standard preperation for any candidate for president.


3 posted on 07/24/2008 7:03:13 AM PDT by moose2004 (Go Ahead, Make My Day)
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To: kristinn

Don't count yer chickens Hussein!

4 posted on 07/24/2008 7:03:24 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: kristinn

Who am I?

* Speeches in stadiums filled with mesmerized, adoring audience - Check

* An uninspiring background before meteoric rise - Check

* Creates his own new symbols of power - Check

* Associates with racists, hatemongers and Violent radicals - Check

* A propaganda machine willing to show him only in the best possible light - Check

* Uses, “glorious leader” style Agitprop posters common in totalitarian nations - Check (see German

campaign poster for example)

* Wants Secret Police force - Check

* Somebody powerful people think they can control - Check

* Often dismissed as a light-weight by his opponents - Check

* Seeks to replace God with the State - Check

* People adopting his name as their own - Check

* Inspires adoration art - Check

* Appropriates symbols of past German glory - Check

* Never plans on giving up power - Check (Obama to be president for the next “eight to 10 years”)

* A narcissistic megalomaniac - Check

* Brazenly Takes credit for other people’s accomplishments - Check

Barack Obama.

Frightened yet?


5 posted on 07/24/2008 7:03:31 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: kristinn
I'm still not convinced that he will get the nomination.

Hillary has been awfully quiet lately.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

6 posted on 07/24/2008 7:04:54 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: kristinn

Justice Department, State and the CIA will need Obama commies instead of Clinton commies...


7 posted on 07/24/2008 7:05:09 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: kristinn

Wonder how many babies will be named after Obama the Great? Sorta like the Wizard of Oz


8 posted on 07/24/2008 7:05:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: DakotaRed

I liked how one website (can’t remember which one) had a column calling the Obama Tour right now his “Premature Inauguration Syndrome”. Careful. Americans loved to be iconoclasts.


9 posted on 07/24/2008 7:06:02 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
Frightened yet?

I've been frightened. This guy is scarier than the villians in some of the best political thriller novels.

10 posted on 07/24/2008 7:08:00 AM PDT by Allegra (Ain't it grand? I'm back in the sand...)
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To: kristinn

11 posted on 07/24/2008 7:08:08 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: kristinn

Typical campaign PR BS.

I would remind them about the last three Democratic “Presumptive Presidents,” starting with the Hildabeast.


12 posted on 07/24/2008 7:08:20 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
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To: DakotaRed
Heck he hasn't even announced his VP and he's already measuring the oval office windows for new drapes! I see he is counting his chickens before they hatch! Pray, and keep praying!
13 posted on 07/24/2008 7:08:22 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: LonePalm
“Call me Hillary...”


14 posted on 07/24/2008 7:08:25 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: moose2004

Here’s the problem I see. There is such an expectation of winning among the Dems (check out DU if you doubt that), if he loses there will be crying and “gnashing of teeth.” They will be convinced that the election was “stolen” once again, and these fans are so rabid there’s no telling what will go down.


15 posted on 07/24/2008 7:08:48 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: kristinn

I guess next he’ll be announcing his cabinet appointments.


16 posted on 07/24/2008 7:09:30 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: caseinpoint
here?
17 posted on 07/24/2008 7:09:40 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: kristinn
It would have been bloody nice if Clinton had allowed President Bush to begin his transition after he won in Nov of 2000.

As I recall he would not allow President elect Bush access to necessary transition material until after the electoral college made it official.

That delayed the transition to a point that it was not until the week before 911 when some where finally in office.

18 posted on 07/24/2008 7:10:26 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E. That spells free. freerepublic.com baby)
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To: kristinn

Who knew it was possible for someone to be more arrogant than John Kerry? It will make his defeat that much more enjoyable.


19 posted on 07/24/2008 7:10:56 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: All

Obama presidential library committee reports: expects opening in Chicago in October. Branches around the U.S. in 2009 and the rest of the world to follow by end of 1010.


20 posted on 07/24/2008 7:11:24 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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