Posted on 11/14/2008 11:53:10 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Here's how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has begun: Barack Obama's aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington — and Clintonites are everywhere.
Obama's victory in the general election produced what his primary campaign couldn't: A swift merger of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party with the Illinois Senator's self-styled insurgency. The merger began, during the campaign, in the policy apparatus — which is now rapidly becoming the governing apparatus.
The absorption of the Clinton government in waiting represents Obama's choice not to repeat what he and his advisors see as an early mistake made by the last two presidents: Attempting to wield power in Washington through an insular campaign apparatus new to town.
Obama's first major appointments have been Democrats who worked for President Clinton and did not endorse him in the primary: Transition chief John Podesta and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who will be White House chief of staff, stayed neutral, and Ron Klain, who will be Joe Biden's chief of staff, backed Biden. Obama, advisers told Politico, may even be weighing offering Hillary Rodham Clinton herself the Cabinet plum of Secretary of State.
"Obama is showing great good sense in making use of their experience," said William Galston, a former Clinton domestic policy adviser who’s now at the Brookings Institution. "You have an entire cadre of people in their 30s and 40s and early 50s who were either in senior jobs or second- and third-tier jobs in the Clinton administration, who really earned their spurs and know their way around — and know something about how the institutions in which they served actually function."
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Nope - second Carter administration with a vengeance .....
Not after he ran against the old politics in Washington and called for change. It doesn't make him brilliant. It makes him a liar. It makes him a "same old, same old" politician just like those who came before him.
Money changed hands
RE: “This is what you get when you are a racist, empty suit with neither ideas nor courage.”
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EXACTLY — perfect post; bears repeating!!! Thank you.
Obama's first term is about winning a second term and will not do anything to jepoardize it.
When he is re-elected is when the mask and the gloves comes off.
I agree.
No way. Obama may be power hungry, but unlike a lot of people seem to think, he is NOT stupid. In fact, I think Obama is pretty crafty and rather intelligent. Which makes him a LOT more dangerous. I think that Bill somehow threatened him during the last part of the campaign and when Obama didn’t pony up, said nasty things about the Os. Obama needs to make nice, but I think he’s too crafty to let the Cs too close. Actually I think the Os and the Cs deserve each other and I think they’re pretty well matched.
Change you can Deceive in.
“going to be a puppet”. That’s what he’s always been. Think Chicago Thugs.
I don’t think money is their goal, at least not directly. Power is. Promise of power is the currency of families like these.
Gee. Kind of like taking a viper to your bosom.
Maybe. Oboma is well versed in covet hypnosis. The more one on one he can get with Republicans in Washington, the easier it will be to sway them.
(Covert hypnosis is used on the inner city school kids in Chicago where Ayers and Oboma worked. I read a book on the subject when I wanted to know how Oboma won without actually saying anything, and the author talked about himself working in the Chicago inner city schools)
And there you have the current state of affairs, watching (or not) while the Community Organizer continues his march towards more and more government control.
RE: “Well, it might be argued that the people who voted for this fraud weren’t expecting clinton redux!”
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Indeed!!!! I have read a lot about people of all political persuasions, touting Obama and voting for him, claiming before the election that they absolutely did not want more of the Clinton/Bush regimes. hahahahahahahaha
As bad as this is, I am actually relieved to see him dealing with the Clintons, Clinton former staffers, and now he wants to meet with McCain! We were so accurate — this Zero guy IS the totally empty suit we figured he was!
Waiting for the PUMA’s to issue a statement on this....
RE: “When he is re-elected is when the mask and the gloves comes off.”
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I seriously doubt he will be re-elected.
See post #32. I agree, but because he has no idea what he's doing (experience), he'll use what he knows about subliminal manipulation according to what his appointees tell him. He's not as knowledgeable when it comes to national and world affairs as much as those who came before him. All he will know about these things is what they tell him.
That’s true. He’s intelligent enough to know he needs help. But he’s also arrogant and that could be his later downfall. After he gets some knowledge and experience, it will be interesting, if not discouraging, to see how he handles power.
I think this election peeved a lot of voters off. The MSM was obviously biased, and ACORN was running amok. I think people are arming themselves, and this is just my opinion, because they feel their voice was stolen by "the powers that be."
I think they know something wasn't right about this election, but they can't simply point to one situation. I believe they feel they've lost their own power to decide. They feel our government has become corrupt (with good reason) to the point where there's little chance of ever turning back time to correct it.
I may be grasping at straws but this makes me feel a little better. Of the two evils, I think that Clintonistas are less dangerous than the Bill Ayers group.
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