Yurt
11-06-2008, 06:32 PM
The selections are telling for Obama, who campaigned as a nontraditional, almost "post-partisan" newcomer. People close to him say the selections show that Obama is aware of his weaknesses as well as his strengths and knows what he needs to be successful as he shifts from campaigning to governing.
"No one I know is better at getting things done than Rahm Emanuel," Obama said in a statement announcing the selection.
Obama, who survived a long contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, also has made it clear he will rely heavily on veterans of her husband's eight-year administration, the only Democratic presidency in the past 28 years. Podesta was President Clinton's chief of staff, and several other former Clinton aides are on Obama's short lists for key jobs, Democratic officials say. Some of them helped write a large briefing book on how to govern, assembled under Podesta's supervision.
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In contrast to Obama's collegial style and that of his top campaign advisers, Emanuel is known as a foul-mouthed practitioner of brass-knuckled politics who relishes both conflict and publicity. He once mailed a dead fish to a political foe.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_el_pr/obama;_ylt=Aq7xB3PHtqFTuRPE.ShrO_gEtbAF
i remember the press when bush picked many people from his dad's years...bush is a stupid moron that can't govern and needs his daddies cronies...
now that obama, the alleged man of change, is bringing in many of clinton's cronies...he is hailed as a genius that knows his strengths and weaknesses
obama is a phony
"No one I know is better at getting things done than Rahm Emanuel," Obama said in a statement announcing the selection.
Obama, who survived a long contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, also has made it clear he will rely heavily on veterans of her husband's eight-year administration, the only Democratic presidency in the past 28 years. Podesta was President Clinton's chief of staff, and several other former Clinton aides are on Obama's short lists for key jobs, Democratic officials say. Some of them helped write a large briefing book on how to govern, assembled under Podesta's supervision.
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In contrast to Obama's collegial style and that of his top campaign advisers, Emanuel is known as a foul-mouthed practitioner of brass-knuckled politics who relishes both conflict and publicity. He once mailed a dead fish to a political foe.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_el_pr/obama;_ylt=Aq7xB3PHtqFTuRPE.ShrO_gEtbAF
i remember the press when bush picked many people from his dad's years...bush is a stupid moron that can't govern and needs his daddies cronies...
now that obama, the alleged man of change, is bringing in many of clinton's cronies...he is hailed as a genius that knows his strengths and weaknesses
obama is a phony