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 whos 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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As Don Corleone once said, “Keep your enemies close to you.”
I see him as appointing his Republican enemies to key posts. Maybe a year or so from now, little scandals start to appear and they are asked to step down for the good of the party. Now they have no Sentate, House, Govenor, seat to go back to. Done
Will Monica be back as “the intern”. Curious minds would like to know, NOT.
The Clintons are neuro linguists, but they're also incrementalists. They'll go slower than the Chicago thungs normally would (they'll still parse their words to achieve the same goals.)
For us, incrementalism, at least, gives us a chance to slow them down.
I know.
Now the secret is out. Obama is really the secret son of Hillary, a white woman, and Bill, the first black President.
Now we can all rest now that is solved.
How much of this did Obama have to promise to the Clintons in order to get Hillary's endorsement and support?
LOL. No wonder the left keeps fighting to hide his birth certificate.
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Yes Cartuh meets the Klintons and everyone suffers.
You’ll now it’s Klintoon III when DelanObama announces Hillary Clinton as SecState, Jamie Gorelick as AG and Sandy Burglar as National Security Advisor.
He’s already sending Maddie No-So-Bright to the World “Economic Summit”...
“Will Monica be back as the intern. Curious minds would like to know, NOT.”
Monica will get a high paying job as an Obama Administration “mouth piece”.
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer......
Yep. It's go time. Just yesterday, on FOX news, they actually had a small quote from George Soros as a "financial analyst." A legitimate financial analyst he might be, but he's a helluva lot more than that. HE IS MY ENEMY!
I think that the Clintonistas woul like the direction to remain leftward, but I think that mainly they are power hungry opportunists. I think that the Ayers types are really interested in destruction.
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