It certainly isn’t much, if his picks for Cabinet and White House staff positions are any indication. In fact, it looks like politics as usual on the horizon.
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.
Mind you, Clinton did a better job than Bush has done; but Obama is apparently simply going to be Clinton II. Which, of course, is no surprise at all since politics and politicians change in the same measure that a leopard does its spots. So here we go again…
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Matthew Hamilton // November 20, 2008 at 5:29 pm
If Obama is going to be Clinton II, who is going to be Monica II?
Bob Schillaci // November 20, 2008 at 7:42 pm
As long as it isn’t Bush III, I’ll settle.
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