Posted on 10/29/2009 9:30:25 AM PDT by presidio9
Election night 2008 went late in Chicago. Many campaign staffers who had spent two years helping Barack Obama get elected celebrated in Grant Park until the wee hours. But if senior aides were under the impression they might get the following day off, they were mistaken. Obama's transition director, John Podesta, scheduled a senior staff meeting for the next morning, Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 10:30 a.m. Podesta, Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, figured it would take a half hour, 45 minutes tops, to bat around some scheduling options and maybe even tell a few war stories from the campaign. But the soon-to-be commander in chief had other plans. To him, Wednesday was another workday—or, more precisely, the first day of his presidency.
Obama had been secretly plotting his transition since the spring of 2008. He enjoyed reciting the line from the 1972 movie The Candidate in which Robert Redford turns to an aide just after winning the election and mournfully asks, "What do we do now?" Obama insisted that he would not be that man. He had launched a massive transition project involving more than 200 policy wonks offering advice. Everyone knew Obama intended to get going quickly after the election. They just didn't expect that "quickly" to Obama meant hours, not days. Podesta was stunned when the 30-minute meeting turned into a four-and-a-half-hour planning session. On day one, Obama was prepared to narrow most of his cabinet choices to two or three names and move ahead to big policy decisions.
Normally a new presidency begins with the inauguration in January. But Barack Obama's tenure really started in November, a full year ago, when he became the de facto co-president of the United States. Obama couldn't yet sign bills or
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why even post this bullshit?
Translation - Obama started off like a hand grenade in a punch bowl.
Translation: Barama is just one of the “200 policy wonks” that were ready to hit the streets at the behest of George Soros and his muslim friends.
It sounds like Alter was born with kneepads.
"What do we do now?"
The Obama Motto. He is so clueless to a real life.
This just proves what a narcissist he is. He'll probably do another Clinton-style grandstand exit when he leaves office in 2013 (Lord hear our prayer).
The article needs a barf alert.
Nice!
PDQ = Power Dump Queen
Because it's useful to remember exactly how the stupid voter got conned, and the profound negative changes that resulted.
"Quick, dammit! We need to hit the ground running before too many of them catch on as to what my real agenda is!"
I'll get the popcorn...
And so now here we are a year later. How’d that hitting the ground running work out?
Alter has a standing order for knee pads at Home Depot .
so why is everything still Bush’s fault?
ML/NJ
I'm getting frustrated answering the same question on every thread I post on FR. I have disagreed with virtually every thread I have ever posted on FR. I wouldn't come here if I knew I would agree with every thing I read. That's what news search engines are for.
The last thread I read attacked Sara Palin, and some loser I never hear of before suggested that I hated Palin because she wasn't Catholic, then speculated on what my life was like. I happen to like Sara Palin. I like other politicians better, but I like her just fine.
I apologize this was not directed at you. Again, I am sorry I should have been clearer.
How many of these useless eater, sack o shiite "policy wonks" ever ran a business or got their hands dirty changing the oil and changing the brakes on their car? Most of them are stinking lawyers
Didn’t he even establish a presidentelect.gov domain?
Yes and didn’t he also feign modesty by trying to calm down the exuberant unwashed masses by saying, “I’m not the President yet” during that period?
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