Posted on 11/09/2008 6:29:16 PM PST by Comparative Advantage
As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration. Following is part of a series of profiles of potential members of the administration.
The New Team A series of profiles of potential members of the Obama administration.
Name: Jamie Gorelick
Being considered for: Attorney general
Would bring to the job: A wide-ranging Washington résumé that spans corporate, legal and national security affairs. Ms. Gorelick (pronounced Guh-REH-lick) was the No. 2 official at the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, from 1994 to 1997, and if chosen would be the second woman to be named attorney general, following her former boss, Janet Reno. Ms. Gorelick would also bring corporate experience to an Obama administration at a time of financial crisis.
Is linked to Mr. Obama by: Deep contacts in Democratic circles and a background in civil rights. But Ms. Gorelick backed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries and contributed early on to her campaign, which could work against her as a contender. She contributed $10,000 to Mr. Obama’s presidential political action committee in August, after his nomination was all but assured.
In her own words: “You know someone respected you if they called you ‘sir,’ ” Ms. Gorelick said, alluding to the glass ceiling at the Pentagon, where she worked as general counsel in the 1990s. “ ‘Ma’am’ is what you call your mom.”
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From Al Capone to Barack Obama
Yes I am.
Well why should the Obamatron fear the Pubbies? Who’s going to stop him, Collins and Snow?
Maine is now the freeway to the Obamatron express train. It will get ugly I fear and very fast.
Ugly for freedom loving Americans.
I strongly disagree. Hillary had her shot and isn’t likely to get another. The DNC turned their back on her in droves as they went for the Obamessiah.
To some extent, the election of Obama is the result of two major factors: Bush and talk radio’s assault on Hillary. You could say that Obama is the result of our own law of unintended consequences. Comparably, Hillary would NOT be as bad as the Obamessih but we were so hung up on her, he was able to slide in under the radar.
Yep, all Obama has to do is make sure that Maine gets some pork, and they get two for the price of one.
This is where I disagree with you. Zero has absolutely no experience actually governing, unless you consider running a political campaign as some sort of management. Hillary would be far more effective at getting things passed.
Her proposals would also be far more likely to be more 'mainstream', insuring that they'd not be opposed by as many Americans as would Barry's far left socialism. At some point, the novelty of having a black President is going to wear off with the American public, and even with the lamestream media. He's going to be expected to deliver pie, and if he cannot, they'll turn sour on him.
Yes. Also a leaf out of the clinton playbook. Clinton preferred to have cabinet members who were criminals, because then he could blackmail them and ensure that they were loyal to him personally.
That, in turn, is a page out of Machiavelli—or the Mafia, with which both clinton and Obama have connections: the Dixie Mafia, the Chicago Mob.
I’m afraid Bush never read Machiavelli. I don’t mean that he should have been a Machiavellian, but that he never seemed to understand how power politics work. For instance, Machiavelli says that if you have to do something unpleasant, you should do it early and all at once, and get it over with. And he says that, if you must choose, it is better to be feared than loved. And he says that you should act so as to stun your enemies—the familiar modern instances being the horse’s head in the bed, or Vince Foster in Fort Marcy Park.
Thus, clinton fired all the US attorneys immediately, and replaced them with his stooges who were personally loyal to him. Bush waited for years, and finally fired just a few of the worst ones. Which of those methods—both perfectly legal—worked better? More effective to it soon and to do it thoroughly, and to crush anyone who objects.
That was clinton’s modus operandi, and I’m sure it will be Obama’s.
And as ATTORNEY GENERAL, Obama is putting here in a position to cover up and ignore all of the Democrats FUTURE CRIMES! (Voter Fraud, Raping public enterprises, etc,etc)
Hmm, This is an appointment that HAS to be stopped!
On tTHIS point, we are in complete agreement. He has overpromised and will have no choice but to underdeliver. That's what makes (IMO) the mid-terms in '10 ours to lose.
No, hillary is the JUNIOR senator from New York, only in her second term. She lacks seniority in the Senate, and only was respected because people feared her, in case she got back into the White House. I doubt whether Obama could make her majority leader even if he tried.
But Obama has no reason to help a possible rival. She’s washed up. The clinton power machine, such as it is, has already seen the handwriting on the wall and is transferring its allegiance to Obama.
I guess I'm pinning my hopes on the American people seeing their stupidity and naivete in the next two years, just like they did between 1992 and 1994. Zero just insures that more than any Clinton ever could.
They will. Not all of them, but, IMO, by this time next year, lights will be coming on as people begin to realize that the O overpromised and will be forced to under deliver.
My hope is that by 2010, Voter's remorse will set in and we will see in increase in the number of Republicans returning to Congress. Should that occur, we need to ensure that we send the right 'Pubbies to Congress, NOT more country clubbers.
But never clean!!! LOL
You may be right, but I can't believe the Clinton "machine" will go down without a whimper.
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