Here’s a list:
Joe Biden, in Congress for 30+ years, is Vice-President-elect.
Rahm Emanuel, former Clinton counsel and congressman, is the new Chief of Staff.
Eric Holder, who worked in the Clinton Justice Department, is the Attorney General-designate.
Gregory Craig, who served as Clinton’s impeachment lawyer and was one of the sharks primarily responsible for handing Elian Gonzalez back to fidel and the Worker’s Paradise, is now White House counsel.
Word is out that former Senator and America’s most boring public speaker, Tom Daschle, has been asked to lead Health and Human Services.
And, of course, there’s the big story that Mrs. Rodham is being vetted for the Secretary of State job. Bill Clinton has also agreed to be vetted fully, which seems odd; he served in the White House for eight inglorious years…what’s he been doing since then that requires “vetting”?
So, to all you Obama supporters who swallowed that Change mantra that he spouted for the past 18 months…where the hell is the change? Looks to me like we’re getting many of the Usual Suspects back on the Federal payroll. In fact, one or two more of these carefully-considered choices might give us the entire Clinton Administration again. And we all know how that worked out the first time, don’t we?
There is nothing different about this man and his policies. We’re about to embark on a minimum of four years of the most miserable government intrusion into our lives than we’ve experienced in the history of this nation. Thanks a lot, folks.
Well, I can’t say I’m all that surprised, especially when one considers that most of Obama’s lemmings didn’t know much about what they were voting for in the first place.
Bend over. Here it comes again.
Eight years of kickass economic growth and relative world peace?
The economics were great because he had a Republican Congress that forced him to reform welfare and cut spending. Clinton would have put this country into the same situation the Bush administration has if he had Democrats holding the purse strings.
As for “world peace,” I give you the following: Bosnia, Mogadishu, Somalia, the 1993 WTC bombing, Oklahoma City, the USS Cole attack, bombing the “aspirin factory,” and his administrations failure in stopping Bin Laden and his ilk before they attacked us again. There may have been relative ‘world peace,” but his failure to deal with terror groups led us to where we are today. I expect Obama’s hands-off, I’ll-talk-to-anyone diplomacy is going to lead us down that same road.
I , too , find myself disapointed by how many appointees are from past democratic presidencies. It is my hope that as things do not turn out as Obama hopes, that lessons will sink in and he will reach for a truly new leadership – and make good on his promise to look for qualified people – not segmented by color of political party. Unfortunately, I still don’ t think we have found a leader who can cast off the pressure to look at party first, qualifications second. Without this break from looking at things in light of party affiliation we will never have the deep thinker we need to creatively solve problems as our leader.