This guy is amazingly incompetent. You'd think he'd never held an executive position before. Oh, yeah: he hasn't.
“This guy is amazingly incompetent. You’d think he’d never held an executive position before. Oh, yeah: he hasn’t. “
His whole cabinet seems like in great part a payoff to who’s who (or who has been who) of democrats. To see names like Daschle and Shalala tossed around seriously in this context is just crazy. Letting your SOS be someone whose husband has made hundreds of millions from foreign governments since leaving office is just loopy.
I wonder how much power he has in who he is picking. He cannot possibly want people with long-term ties to the clintons surrounding him.
Yeah, you’ve got a good point.
Obama has been depicted as the paradigm of great transition team. Bush, who actually CREATED the transition system that is getting so much praise, gets no credit at all.
Obama couldn’t pass his own vetting test, due to his numerous radical associations (not to mention hard drug use). But that’s just one of those hypocritical things we are supposed to chuckle over and forget. Still, rather than lower the bar for vetting, Obama raised it - with the measurement being, “Will something in an applicant’s past cause “the one” political embarrassment?”
The Bill Richardson departure is a major embarrassment for Obama’s vetting apparatus. How the hell could they not have known about this? It was all over the place for months!
One of the problems a man of such incredibly limited experience such as Obama creates is an absolute loss as to how to pick the best leaders. He doesn’t know anybody (outside of corrupt Chicago types); he doesn’t have the relationships to connect the best people to the best positions. So he has no choice but to go back to the last Democratic administration and hire all the same people. What other choice does he have?