"Change"..the fairy tale. I certainly dont believe

• Only 17 more days, and the evil - Bush regime will be history!
  • AND THE OLD CLINTON REGIME WILL BE - BACK WITH THEIR GARBAGE......NM
  • Don't count your chickens... - Marmann
    • Right on, Marnann!!! n/m - gourdpainter
    • What exactly are you implying, huh? - Some of you are scary.nm
      • Or - what exactly is she SMOKING? (Or drinking?) - Her reply was totally whacked.
        • "Scary." "Totally whacked." "What is she... - Marmann
  • No. "Evil" is Saddam. "Evil" is Hamas. - Not a fair statement.nm
    • "Evil" is George Bush, Wall Street, the Banks, - oil industry, tobacco industry, healthcare industr
      • and brezinski, ayers, obama, and - all those other associations he is tied to
        • Only in the minds of the deluded partisans - sm
          • Smears, name calling and - sm
          • Right from the mouth of an Obot. - sm
    • Evil is arming Saddam and backing a war against - sm
      • And evil is joking about the WMD - maxine
    • *Evil* is also Hitler....(sm) - Just the big bad
      • Okay I did that - see message - c'mon
        • comparison...(sm) - Just the big bad
          • JTBB - I knew you'd try this - c'mon
    • I agree - not fair - c'mon
      • Exactly! Thanks for being common sense - nm
  • Whatever you feel, this post is really - disgusting. Try living in Russia.nm
    • Don't blame you for not attaching a message - to this irrevelant drivel.
      • Same thing Bush has to do with the price of eggs. - c'mon
        • This is what passes for clarification in W's 22% fan club? - sm
          • Great post! - Marmann
          • No, the "hatched job" on the constitution is already - being performed by O and his crook friends.nm
            • Might as well be hatcheted -- ever notice that according to it, - women STILL don't have 100% equal rights?
            • Looks like that logic thingy is way above your head. - sm
            • HATCHET JOB, that is. By the way, look at the - hatchet job the dems did to the economy.thanks.nm
              • The economy was ruined by corporate greed, stock - market greed, and a Pres. who helped enable it.
              • It's pretty apparent that the only thing - sm
      • You would not have a clue.nm - nm
        • Right, ignorance is bliss for some. - They only learn when it is too late.nm
  • And the inexperienced - mtme
    • You must have forgotten that W had only - jj
    • I'm waiting for racist wife Michelle to stick her foot in her mouth.... - bet we hear that soon, too.
      • She and her husband are both racists. -am so sick - of them -fakes..nm
        • My oh my. Aren't we the bitter little bigot? - jj
          • nope, y'all are sore democrat winners. Obamas are proven bigots and - racists..whether you believe it or not.
            • Racists and bigots like, lets see, McCain and Palin, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter and Hannity? - oh pleeze
      • Hey, the rumor mill is back!! (sm) - Just the big bad
        • All the DEMOCRATS that voted with Bush for war - will be going to jail too, then.nm
        • That's a real knee-slapper. Thanks for the chuckles. - nm
      • You probably lose more bets than GOP lost offices in this last election. - (sm)
        • Republicans will rise from the ashes of the Obama years....waiting patiently. - of that there is no doubt.
          • ROFL - nm
            • ROFL squared. It will take more than 8 years - jj
            • Love those rug burns...keep rolling - .
              • Could you please define "rub burn" so that - sm
  • ...and on the flip side...we will soon see...sm - ....
    • So your political acumen is based on - sm
      • "Change"..the fairy tale. I certainly dont believe - in that. More like a bad dream.nm

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OBAMA'S 'CHANGE': BACK TO THE DEMOCRATIC Washington INSIDERS

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN 

Published on DickMorris.com on November 7, 2008
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What's with Obama's choice of old-time Clinton cronies and recycled Washington insiders to run the transition to his new politics of change?

Can't the anti-Washington insiders President-elect find anyone who isn't a Beltway has-been?

Judging by the appointments to his transition committee and leaks about possible top staff and Cabinet choices, Obama appears to be practicing the politics of status quo, not the politics of change.

Obama based his innovative campaign on an emphatic and convincing commitment to change the culture of Washington and bring in new people, new ideas, and new ways of doing business.
 But now, Obama has definitely changed his tune. As president-elect, he's brought back the old Washington hacks, party regulars, and Clinton sycophants that he so frequently disparaged. Like Jimmy Carter, the last President who ran as an outsider, Obama has reached out to the same old folks who dominate the Democratic Party and represent the status quo.

His Transition Committee looks like a reunion of the Clinton Administration. No new ideas of how to reform the system there. The Chairman, John Podesta, was Clinton's Chief of Staff. He presided over the outrageous last minute pardons and his style is strictly inside-the-beltway and make-no-waves.

Then there's Carol Browner, Clinton's competent former EPA Administrator who became the consummate Washington insider. She's Madeline Albright's partner and recently married mega-lobbyist and former Congressman Tom Downey. During the uproar over Dubai taking over U.S. ports, Browner brought Downey to meet with Senator Chuck Schumer to plead Dubai's case. Downey was paid half a million dollars to push Dubai's position. He's also a lobbyist for Fannie Mae, paid half a million to try to cover their rears on the subprime mortgage mess. Is his change?

Federico Pena was Clinton's Secretary of Transportation and of Energy. The President felt he was unduly soft on Air Florida after their crash and lost confidence in him. Now he's back as a Transition Committee member.

Bill Daley, Clinton's former Secretary of Commerce and the brother of the Mayor of Chicago, is the epitome of the old Democratic establishment. Clinton appointed him to the Fannie Mae Board and his son worked as a lobbyist for the agency. Aren't these the kind of folks that Obama ran against?

Larry Summers, President of Harvard and former Clinton Secretary of the Treasury is not exactly an outsider either. He's also alienated more than a few with his bizarre suggestion that women may be genetically inferior to men in math and science.

Susan Rice, Assistant Secretary of State under Clinton advised John Kerry and Mike Dukakis. Does that tell you enough?

Obama has named one of his big bundlers - Michael Froman, an executive at Citigroup. Is this supposed to symbolize change? 
 
Obama's choice of a spokesperson for the transition is also surprising; hers' is definitely not the face of reason and new politics. Stephanie Cutter is the brash and combative former Clinton, Kerry, and Ted Kennedy mouthpiece. The liberal DailyKos.com once described Cutter as "a moron to the nth degree" when she tried unsuccessfully to force the New York Times' Adam Nagourney to treat her unsolicited email criticizing Howard Dean as "background" without mentioning her name.

Speaking of brash, Rahm Emmanuel, the new White House Chief of Staff, makes Cutter look timid. Rahm is also a former Clinton White House staffer - and a very obnoxious one. He spent his White House years leaking to the Washington Post whenever he didn't like what the President was doing.  Even Bill Clinton stopped trusting him. Any hopes of Obama keeping his commitment to reach across the aisle would go right out the window with Rahm's appointment.  Instead of extending a hand to the opposition, it would be like raising just one finger. And Rahm's strident demeanor laced with the 'f'  word in every sentence will do little to elevate the bipartisan dialogue in Washington.

Christopher Edley, another member of the transition team, is Dean of the Berkeley Law School. He's a former member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under Clinton and his wife, Maria Echaveste was Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff.

Transition committee staffer Christine Varney was a Federal Trade Commissioner under Clinton and worked in the White House.

Throughout the early debates, Obama criticized Hillary as part of the inside-the beltway establishment that needed to go. But now he's reaching out to these exact same folks.  Some change.

...Bush remains "The Decider."  The question is, will Bush leave when it's time, or will he hijack the country, declare martial law and promote himself to "The Dictator," which he "joked" about on three different occasions.  He also giggled about World War III, and he stated back in 1999 (TWO YEARS BEFORE 9/11) that if he ever had the chance to invade Iraq, he would.

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.
(Governing Magazine 7/98)

-- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?"

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.

-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [Bush] said.

-- Business Week, July 30, 2001

the stuff just mounts up.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/15/top-us-communist-says-elect-obama-and-change-the-world/

Yeah - I know "everyone does it", but this was all supposed to stop under Obama, remember?  Lobbying and all of that?  Corrupting the system for bucks? 

Remember?

I do.  I also predicted Obama would be as bad as any of the rest of them.  Given his promises, though, he is much, much worse because he's a liar.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=adfv4RHV3Kmk

family or friends that you might think about for a while.  The victors of the election hold no truck with you.

Robertson calls for assassination of Chavez

Televangelist calls Venezuelan president a ‘terrific danger’ to U.S.

you.  I certainly do not know your husband.  I did not read your post, if you are referring to one, so if you take particular posts on a board as aimed solely at you, that is not my problem, but yours.