Those of you who were deceived into voting for "change", I hope you realize by now that you've been duped. You merely succeeded in electing an avowed socialist who is surrounding himself with the same lobbyists and political insiders he spent his entire campaign demonizing.
When Obama said he'd "bring people together", he must have been referring to re-assembling the old Clinton team. Because that's what he's doing.
John Podesta, who is heading the president-elect's transition team, was President Clinton's chief of staff. In fact, many others being considered for top positions in an Obama administration are straight from the Clinton administration.
Attorney General – Eric Holder, the Clinton administration’s last deputy attorney general.
Much has been made, and appropriately so, of Holder’s untoward performance in the final corrupt act of the Clinton administration: the pardons issued in the departing president’s final hours. Of these, most notorious is the case of Marc Rich, an unrepentant fugitive wanted on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges — but granted a pardon nonetheless thanks to the intercession of his ex-wife, a generous donor to Clinton’s library and legal-defense fund.
White House counsel – Gregory Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who handled President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense.
Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?
- Elian Gonzalez’s father - Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take Elian to freedom. Most people saw this as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt from Fidel Castro, attempting to embarrass the US. The dispute got resolved when Janet Reno ordered an armed assault on the house where Elian’s family in the US provided him a home.
- John Hinckley, Jr - Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
- Kofi Annan - The former Secretary-General of the UN hired Craig to defend his interests in the Volcker Commission probe of the Oil-for-Food scandal, which put billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein’s pockets while providing cash for Annan’s son, his deputies, and some allege Annan himself.
- Pedro Gonzalez Pinzon - A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992. The Dallas Morning News demanded that Obama force Craig to drop the case during the campaign, but no report of whether he did is easily available.
White House chief of staff – Rahm Emanuel, senior Clinton White House veteran and hyperpartisan attack dog.
Emanuel is a brawler. He's legendarily tough and effective and ruthless. Hes the type of guy who makes enemies, then makes lists of his enemies, then makes lists of his enemies' friends, then makes lists of how they'll pay. If you thought the Obama administration would be all about bringing people together and would simply make sad faces when stubborn congressmen refused to come to the table, this is a clear sign otherwise. If good feelings don't suffice, bareknuckle politics will happily be employed.There's even talk that Obama is considering offering the position of Secretary of State to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Obama isn't bringing change nor will he be "changing the way politics works" in America. He's positioning himself to be Bill Clinton's third term, with a heavy dash of Leon Trotsky thrown in for good measure.
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