Obama's 'Change': Appointing Beltway Has-Beens

newsmax ^ | 11/9/08 | Dick Morris

[onlylewis]

What's with Obama's choice of old-time Clinton cronies and recycled Washington insiders to run the transition to his new politics of change?

Can't the anti-Washington-insiders and the president-elect find anyone who isn't a Beltway has-been?

Judging by the appointments to his transition committee and leaks about possible top staff and Cabinet choices, Obama appears to be practicing the politics of status quo, not the politics of change.

[FreedBird]

Bama had the voters in the Bama trance.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Verginius Rufus]

He started off convinced that the 2008 election would be a contest between Hillary and Condi.

[Non-Sequitur]

He started off convinced that the 2008 election would be a contest between Hillary and Condi.

Yeah, well lets look even more recently. Like the week before the election:

Oct 31, 2008 - McCain Surges Among Young Voters
Oct 31, 2008 - McCain Shredding Obama's Lead
Oct 29, 2008 - 'Undecideds' Could Shift Toward McCain
Oct 28, 2008 - McCain Closing the Gap
Oct 26, 2008 - How McCain Can Pull a Truman
Oct 24, 2008 - Don't Count McCain Out
Oct 22, 2008 - Obama's Money Won't Be Deciding Factor
Oct 20, 2008 - 'Joe the Plumber' Winning Strategy for McCain

If Dick Morris told me the sun rose in the east and set in the west I'd head for LA to watch the sunrise over the Pacific.

[shezza]

The chairman, John Podesta, was Clinton's chief of staff.... Then there's Carol Browner, Clinton's competent former EPA administrator who became the consummate Washington insider. She's Madeline Albright's partner and recently married mega-lobbyist and former Congressman Tom Downey... a lobbyist for Fannie Mae, paid half a million to try to cover their rears on the subprime mortgage mess.... Federico Pena was Clinton's secretary of transportation and of energy.... Bill Daley, Clinton's former secretary of commerce and the brother of the mayor of Chicago, is the epitome of the old Democratic establishment. Clinton appointed him to the Fannie Mae board and his son worked as a lobbyist for the agency.... Larry Summers... former Clinton secretary of the treasury...Susan Rice, assistant secretary of state under Clinton...Stephanie Cutter is the brash and combative former Clinton, Kerry, and Ted Kennedy mouthpiece...Rahm Emanuel...is also a former Clinton White House staffer -- and a very obnoxious one. He spent his White House years leaking to The Washington Post whenever he didn't like what the president was doing. Even Bill Clinton stopped trusting him.... Christopher Edley, member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under Clinton, and his wife, Maria Echaveste, Clinton's deputy chief of staff...Christine Varney was a federal trade commissioner under Clinton and worked in the White House.

All that political inbreeding is downright scary. I hear the music from "Deliverance" in the background.

[Grampa Dave]

I just tried the link. It works.

At first there is a quick Toyota flash, then there a quick scene of Zero and his family after the election.

Then it moves into the video.

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/video/strategysession/10446771.html?cm_ven=YAHOOV&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

[awake-n-angry]

“It’s kind-of like wiping your butt with used toilet paper.
You have dried old s**t and a fresh new s**t. Either way it still smells like S**T. “
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Classy.

[zeugma]

It should be a big clue to folks that we have one establishment. Until we do something dramatically different, we're going to keep getting the same results.