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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No..
Change Back to the Clinton Era
The folks that built the skids that we are rapidly going downhill on,, want to do it all again.. Enough voters agreed. amazing.
The price tags for visits are being created to put all over the White House.
This is what you get when you are a racist, empty suit with neither ideas nor courage.
Is this Blues brother movies where Jake and Elwood get everybody back together LOL!
Obama is far to the left of Clinton.
This obviously shows the man has NO ideas of his own. (Not that we at FR ever doubted it)
Come on Norm, this isn’t the same old Washington Politics, this is change (excuse me, I feel nauseous).
On the bright side, he will not attend grandma’s service today (said he’d do a memorial in December/shakes head) and he plans on meeting with the vets against the war soon... Oh, and the hill shut down coal before he got in, nevermind the cooling phase all over the world.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Or as we used to say, ‘What’s black, white and red all over’?
This sure isn’t the change Obama promised/implied.
But I thought "a new guy, with new ideas" was the whole cornerstone of his campaign.
I'm feeling SOOOOOO disillusioned right now...
;^)
No wonder Hitlery said she doesn’t plan to run again for President. For Billy’s 3rd term, she’ll be (again) in an unelected position, but this time with some legal muscle behind it.
Although it will be interesting to see how she pulls off Hillary-care from the State Department...
That's what I was thinking. Oboma is such a rookie, he doesn't know what to do, so he's calling the Clintons back. The guy is going to be just a puppet. The Clintoneeses are going to be running the show.
Move over, Oboma. The lefts Affirmative action got you the job, but that doesn't mean you're going to be the REAL president. They see you as a black man, and they treat all black men as useful idiots.
this isn’t the same old Washington Politics
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Joe McCarthy warned a lot of folks.. very few listened.
Now subversive elements are about to wield power.
but,, the horses are out of the barn, what to do now?
I’d say ammo and gun sales going thru the roof is a reasonable response.
abc having a whack like ayres on GMA should make folks go hmmmm?
Instead. they change the channel. head back in sand time.
Well, it might be argued that the people who voted for this fraud weren't expecting clinton redux!
It's just further proof that other than his Marxist ideology, the cretin is an empty suit bereft of any redeeming qualities that justify his use of oxygen...other than supplying plants with abundant carbon dioxide.
...and who can't get security clearances...
The change thing was always crap. This makes sense operationally. If you want to make trouble why use untrained troublemakers?
Clinton third term by proxy. The empty suit is a sock puppet.
If this were a Republican doing the same thing they would find someone to say "He's using the same entrenched political hacks. That's what's wrong with Washington."
But Obama makes good sense.
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