Except maybe what will be left in your pocket after OBAMA & the DEMS get done with you. OBAMA promised change but it looks more like a washington insider free for all. It looks more like they are helping themselves instead of John Q. Public. So much for change. So much for getting the economy going & job creation. they just want to keep a permanent underclass for more & more people. Govt. healthcare???? Looks more like socialistic communism to me. TWO YEARS!

President-elect promised change, picking insiders

Nov 20 05:20 AM US/Eastern
By KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press Writer 115 Comments


Number Of 'Clintonians' In Obama's Cabinet Raises Eyebrows


WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.

Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a well-known Washington personality, seemed more likely than ever to be his secretary of state. Clinton is deciding whether to take that post as America's top diplomat, her associates said Wednesday

Obama is ready to announce that his attorney general will be Eric Holder, the Justice Department's No. 2 when Clinton's husband was president. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, is another veteran of the Clinton White House.

Daschle's selection to head the Health and Human Services Department—confirmed Wednesday but not yet announced—isn't at the same level of Cabinet prestige as the top spots at the State and Justice departments. But the health post could be more important in an Obama administration than in some others, making Daschle a key player in helping steer the president-elect's promised health care reforms.

Daschle could push Obama for quick action on health care reform next year, if he follows his own advice.

Daschle said efforts during the Clinton administration, led by Hillary Clinton, took too long and went into too much detail, giving every interest group an opportunity to find something they didn't like about the plan.

"The next president should act immediately to capitalize on the goodwill that greets any incoming administration. If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it," Daschle wrote in a book he released this year, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis." "This issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol."

The former South Dakota senator's return to the government will be a vindication of sorts. He was the Senate Democratic leader when he was defeated in 2004 by Republican John Thune, who convinced voters back home that Daschle was more concerned with Washington than with them.

In fact, Daschle stayed in the capital city after his defeat, becoming a public policy adviser and member of the legislative and public policy group at the law and lobbying firm Alston & Bird. Daschle isn't registered as a lobbyist. He advises clients on issues including health care, financial services, taxes and trade, according to the firm's Web site.

Health care interests, including CVS Caremark, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Abbott Laboratories and HealthSouth, are among the firm's lobbying clients.

Daschle's appointment was not formally announced, but Democratic officials said the job was his barring an unforeseen problem as Obama's team reviews his background. One area of review will include the lobbying connections of his wife, Linda Hall Daschle, who has worked mostly on behalf of airline-related companies over the years. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Republicans sniped at what they saw as an unwelcome trend. Alex Conant, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, "Barack Obama is filling his administration with longtime Washington insiders."


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Obama isn't in office yet.

Bushie is.

But, if you're looking for change, I have a few pennies in my pocket.

Like I've been Saying, He's Putting the Band Back Together! 26 of 39 People he Has to Help Him including those He's Picked for Various Office/Department positions are Clintonista's! the Only thing this Guy is Changing is His Address.

I am amazed that OBAMA has not stepped up to the plate while DEMS are scrambling & just don't have a clue.

You better hold onto those pennies because the govt. will confiscate those too.

Welcome to the People's Republic of the USA.

His inexperience is showing BIG TIME!

I said he was an empty suit.

It's not so much that Obama's an empty suit as much as that he's bought and paid for by the same Global elite that own the Bush family.

Yep!! And the Economy is fundamentally sound! Seems like many republicans said the same thing! But what do I know I just stayed at the Holiday Inn Express!!!!! It seems no one has clue or ever had a clue

ummmmm....stayed at a Holiday Inn Express ?...not that there's anything wrong with that...lol...

opps

IMO
Obama may be surrounding himself with experience, but I believe he is his own man. Your assuming nothing will change because you don't want to have to eat crow. What are YOU going to do to create change? It's our responsibility to help. Or, maybe your life is so fantastic that you don't need anything to change.
Most people are not conservative. They're not liberal. They're somewhere closer to the middle. Those are the ones that voted for Obama. We can save this country if we stop believing that it's not our fault and one man can do everything.

we can only have one President at a time, you misspelled Bush and typed Obama by mistake

he'll step up to the plate on 1/20/09 until then all this bashing is and should be directed at Bush

I find it amusing that the first move the man running on "Change" makes, is surrounding himself by the same people that were in office 8 years ago.

Honestly i wouldnt be surprised, even if Obama made things worse, people would not see it. Hell most of his supporters were unaware of his policies. The rest is just a selffulfilling prophecy.

Surrounding yourself with experienced people is not a bad thing. Do you want to go into battle with people who don't know what they are doing? From what I have seen and heard, he is his own man and will not be manipulated easily. But, he is one man, and it is up to each and every one of us to pay attention to what is going on around us, question what we don't understand, and firmly support what we believe. I think you are underestimating what people know, can know, and can do. The faction of our population who sits idly by, then complains when things go awry needs to be reduced even further than it was in this election. It's up to your generation to start saying enough is enough! And I think they did in this election, or at least it was a good start.

it was the far left that brought Obama up, but it was the moderates and independents that got him elected

I expect him to have a pretty centrist administration. I also expect to hear a lot of far left types howling cause he betrayed them

your county is heading the way of the dinasour...
total extinction..ECONOMICALLY

along with most of the civilized world.

the monetary giants in this world have their way..to own, manipulate and dominate the working class.

we the people will be living in refuge tents, will look more like the sudan than the USA..

a refugee tent would be a step up for me

Say what you will but people had money in their pockets when the Clintons where in office.

So if Obama wants to hire every one from Bill Clinton to Monica Lewinsky to work in the white house see if i give a damn!

All you republicans are doing is wining. YOU LOST, deal with it. You want Obama to fail so you can say "i told you so" but what you dont see is that if he fails we all fail.