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Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to transition or staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one of the members of his 12-person Transition Advisory Board and both of his White House staff choices.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15617.html

That's more change you can believe in.

Yeah,Bringing in people who were part of an administration that gave us 8 years of peace and prosperity.

Only an idiot would argue with that.

The Clinton Foreign and Domestic Policy....

And sure enough,the board idiot responds immediately.

Poor little t*** can't delete us here like he did at the Times board before I got him BANNED.



Way too funny.......






Indeed.

Tell that to the family members of the USS Cole fuckwad.

We know...You've been laughing and crowing about it for months as you strut and preen about how it has brought your Messiah to power.

You must be very happy and proud.

YOU WANNA START CRYIN' ABOUT ALL THIS ALL THE TIME! THEN TAKE SOME DAMN RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT THE DEMS DID IN ALL THIS! HOW MANY DIED BECAUSE RAHM EMANUEL PUSHED THE DEMS INTO CONTINUING THE WAR WHEN THEY COULD OF ENDED IT! HA...HOW ABOUT THAT! JUST SO THEY COULD USE THE WAR AS A "TOOL" TO WIN THE ELECTION! HA...HOW ABOUT THAT? DAMN CRY BABIES!!!

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?opti ... mival=2747

Obama transition members have Fannie ties

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team leaders for the State Department are both Clinton-era department officials with links to the troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae.

Tom Donilon, a lawyer who was one of President Bill Clinton’s State Department spokesmen and its chief of staff, was a top lobbyist for Fannie Mae from 1999 to 2005.

Obama’s other State Department team leader, Wendy Sherman, was president and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation from 1996 to 1997, between two tours at the State Department – one as a legislative liaison for Secretary Warren Christopher and another as counselor to Secretary Madeleine Albright.

Neither Donilon nor Sherman has worked for Fannie Mae in the last year, and neither would be advising the transition on housing issues.


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15569.html

That isn't the half of it.......

(CBS) Former treasury secretary Robert Rubin, who is advising Barack Obama, and former Hewlett-Packard head Carly Fiorina, who is advising John McCain, said on Face The Nation Sunday that a balanced budget is foreseeable despite a federal deficit that has ballooned to more than $400 billion.

"We could have had surpluses during this decade," said Rubin. "We started the decade with surpluses and we had good federal revenues. But instead, because of the fiscal policies put in place, we had deficits through all this period.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/ ... 7557.shtml


Robert Rubin: What meltdown?
In a talk on Wednesday, the Citigroup director said the current financial upheaval is just cyclical. And none of the blame that there was to assign went to Wall Street.By Katie Benner, writer-reporter

(Fortune) -- A lending catastrophe has consumed homeowners, mortgage companies, and the financial system, but Robert Rubin, Citigroup's director and executive committee chair, doesn't seem particularly alarmed.

He told a small crowd at Manhattan's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Wednesday that the problems now roiling the markets and forcing the Federal Reserve into a defensive posture are "all part of a cycle of periodic excess leading to periodic disruption," and that we are not in fact on the verge of a financial meltdown.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/31/news/ec ... r.fortune/


Citi Swings Giant Ax
Financial mammoth plans to cut 53,000 jobs — 20% of work force — in dramatic move to slash costs, manage debt crisis

Citigroup to Axe Another 53,000 Jobs
Monday, November 17, 2008

NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. is cutting approximately 53,000 more jobs in the coming quarters as the banking giant struggles to steady itself after suffering massive losses from deteriorating debt.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453104,00.html

Obama's staff picks cause critics to question his call for change

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Barack Obama pledged to bring "fundamental change to Washington" as he campaigned for the White House -- but as the president-elect fills out his administration, critics say they're seeing just more of the same.


Barack Obama's team is made up of a lot of people who also worked for former President Bill Clinton.

More than half of the people named so far to Obama's transition or staff posts have ties to former President Bill Clinton's administration.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/ ... index.html

....another Clinton Cronie

Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday.

Holder, a former U.S. attorney who served as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton, would be the nation's first black attorney general.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... htm?csp=34