"Clinton Deputy Attorney General to be Obama Attorney General"
Oh to be in da loop!
Despite being elected on a 'Change' message, Obama again reaches into the bag marked 'Politicians - Heavily Used'. To wit, Biden, Rahm, Clinton, Clinton staffer A, B, C, D...
Some will say that we should exercise patience. For them, a little reality:
Mother Nature has lost her patience with us. She's making it harder to find resources without backhanding us with terrorism-breeding famine, oil wars, beetles & wildfires, floods & hurricanes, economic crashes & anything else she has in her little handbag marked 'Greenhouse Gas & Overconsumption Payback'.
Remember Obama's message?
Experience is as likely to blind you to new solutions as it is to help. Innovation will better lead us than experience.
That was then...what is now?
Big changes don't originate in the inside. After all, who argues with being a chosen one?
If you happen to think that the Clintons had us on the right track, then these picks aren't so worrisome. But if the 90's leaders didn't do much to lead us away from the mess we find ourselves in (including Iraq & global warming), do we recycle them?
Isn't change what Obama was about?
Update:
To those who say 'experience' is reassuring...
I have yet to hear anyone offer anything other than the 'experience' argument for any of the Obama's picks. To me, that's worrisome.
Where are the new ideas that Obama's administration is going to be all about? What's so great about Rahm, Axelrod, Jarret, or any of the Clinton types - or the NY Times mentioned lobbyists?
Given that no one is forthcoming with info, why should I not conclude that any fresh thinking might be overtaken by 'experience'? What have the appointees said publicly that makes them qualified to be helping Obama lead our country? (And I hope that no one says that private talks with Obama suffice...remember that 'transparent government' promise?)
As to fresh ideas, where we stand, and who got us here...
At a certain point, an unsustainable model will fail. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it, or whether it was a Democratic or Republican idea. Mother Nature can be a real bi*** when it's time to settle old debts. America's bad policies, created by people that are now crowding around Obama, will haunt us for a generation (if we're so lucky).
So I simply look at data and see where all of that 'Washington experience' and 'getting things done' has taken us...
You want more of the same people?