Posted on 12/14/2008 11:46:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As the United States awaits the inauguration of its first nonwhite president, organizations representing women, gays and lesbians and people of color are working overtime to encourage President-elect Barack Obama to make good on his remark that he would nominate "one of the most diverse Cabinets and White House staffs of all time."
Recommending names of possible presidential nominees is a time-honored part of the political process for interest groups of all stripes. But the push for diversity, which gained steam over the last couple of presidencies, has reached a crescendo this year, political observers say, with constituent groups building sophisticated "talent banks" of promising job candidates.
This year, the zeal to work in the administration of the nation's first African American president has been overwhelming. The Obama transition Web site, www.change.gov, has so far received 331,000 job applications for about 3,000 positions, said Martha Joynt Kumar, a Maryland political scientist who is director of the White House Transition Project, a nonpartisan group that assists presidential transition teams. That's almost triple the number received by President Bill Clinton and almost eight times the applications to serve in the government of President Bush.
The constituent groups say Obama's transition staff has met with them and encouraged their efforts to broaden the talent pool, but some have expressed anxiety that Obama's appointments are less reflective of the country's diversity than they had hoped.
On Saturday, Obama named New York City Housing Commissioner Shaun Donovan as his nominee for secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Although the names of several Latinos and African Americans (including Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin) had been circulating, and the job has often been held by a minority, the post went to a white man.
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PAY TO PLAY BABY !!!!
he’ll pay for their gas and mortgages
The word ‘diversity’ is a code for eliminating white people. It’s in the dictionary, I swear. ; p
I live in the Bay Area, and it has done basically nothing but damage. Races don’t need pc bs to get along. With each generation, there is a passing of the old views to the new. PC stuff just prolongs racism and divisiveness....it separates the culture into ethnic slots.
There is no slash Americans, only Americans.
That way they will never threaten the ruling class.
yes.
Weird how many conservatives are feeling the pressure of the elites....when supposedly we’re the elites!?
To be honest, I too worry more about Soros than I do of the average dem union voter. The soros’s of the world run the machine of liberalism, while the average dem worker just hates Bush.
I welcome a moderate democrat party. The whole idea of having that as a contender would make me happy. Because in the end it just means a level sanity. I don’t think these elite liberals want that.
As far as race goes, I try my best to avoid the trappings of racism, despite how viciously racist many ‘minorities’ are around the Bay Area.
I still would not vote for them, but I would not break out in to a cold sweat at the thought of them in power either.
White males hardest hit?
I heard he will hire 500,000 people to make it look like he is a job creator!
No man can serve two masters. Your heart lies on one side of the hyphen or the other.
White males will most likely be prohibited from applying...
“The constituent groups say Obama’s transition staff has met with them and encouraged their efforts to broaden the talent pool, but some have expressed anxiety that Obama’s appointments are less reflective of the country’s diversity than they had hoped.”
It would be utterly impossible for him to allay fears like that. Utterly.
“On Saturday, Obama named New York City Housing Commissioner Shaun Donovan as his nominee for secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Although the names of several Latinos and African Americans (including Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin) had been circulating, and the job has often been held by a minority, the post went to a white man.”
Shock horror.
Bobby Rush should be White House Press Secretary.
Don’t forget rahm’s request for cair types to apply.
LLS
An admirable notion but in reality a canard, and one that will be exacerbated by an Obama admin.
As the United States awaits the inauguration of its first nonwhite president, organizations representing women, gays and lesbians and people of color are working overtime to encourage President-elect Barack Obama to make good on his remark that he would nominate “one of the most diverse Cabinets and White House staffs of all time.”
Instead what they seem to be getting is a rerun of the Bill Clinton Administration. No matter who Obama picks it will not be diverse as all or most will be socialist in their agendas.
Fantasy land, I'm afraid. That ship has sailed. And the "average dem worker" is a totally PC, brainwashed product of at least a couple of decades of public school and liberal media hatred for America. Sorry.
Obomba’s staffers will be a pervert’s paradise.
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