openleft.com - 11/19/2008
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I ask this question without making a value judgment - are there any other qualified people in America other than permanent Washington, D.C. dwellers who were part of the Clinton administration?
I ask this based on the Obama appointments - my back-of-the-envelope estimate is that they are 90 ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/14/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Politico has a good rundown of all the
Clintonites that have been invited into Obama's government. Money
quote: "Obama is showing great good sense in making use of their experience," said William Galston, a former Clinton domestic policy adviser ...
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"Clintonites Are Everywhere"
alternet.org - 11/20/2008
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alternet.org —
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and
no matter how much faith people place in President-elect
Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities ...
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This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to ...
alternet.org - 11/21/2008
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alternet.org —
Click here to view this guide as a
single page. U.S. policy is not about one individual,
and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his ...
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This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to ...
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Lazy and Sloppy are Two Words I Don't Like Using about the ProgBlog
Corrente —
Annoyingly sloppy, David.
Look, there's one thing that the blogosphere can and should do well: provide the details. It's really great that David put up this anti-Clinton screed (and if it's not, it's a bad attempt not to be) at a site that allows comments; at least we get the chance in the comments to remind him that it's important to put his money where his mouth is. But now is the time when Hard Data is really necessary, and really useful, and he doesn't give us any.
Unlike a lot of people, I tend to enjoy much of David's work. As I said in the comments, I ...
David Sirota: A "Team of Rivals" Or a Rival Team?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "Team of Rivals" is now being used to justify Obama administration appointments and congressional Democratic moves that appear - at least aesthetically - to be somewhat at odds with all "change we can believe in" rhetoric (and for those who don't think there have been many appointments already, there have been many through the transition and the transition's extremely powerful "advisory" committee - and if you think those are irrelevant, you must have forgotten the influence of George W. Bush's similar appointments in 2000). The real question is what are the boundaries of this ...
David Sirota: "Team of Rivals" As the New Broderism
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "Team of Rivals" is now being used to justify Obama administration appointments and congressional Democratic moves that appear - at least aesthetically - to be somewhat at odds with all "change we can believe in" rhetoric (and for those who don't think there have been many appointments already, there have been many through the transition and the transition's extremely powerful "advisory" committee - and if you think those are irrelevant, you must have forgotten the influence of George W. Bush's similar appointments in 2000). The real question is what are the boundaries of this ...
David Sirota: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I don't know about you, but to me it feels pretty 1993 of late. The economy's in the dumps; a new president is headed into office; that new president is taking many of the same faces from that 1993 White House with him; and both Republicans and the media are trying to bait Democrats into a ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 12/19/2008 —
I was struck by this story in the NYT this morning:
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/31/2008 —
Lawrence Eagelburger is a rock-ribbed Republican, a McCain supporter, someone listed as a McCain adviser, etc. And he says this :
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Clinton job for Obama may depend on Bill —
Reuters: Politics 11/18/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Sen. Hillary Clinton is to be picked by President-elect Barack Obama as his secretary of state, it may well depend on a review of the business activities of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton job for Obama may depend on Bill —
Reuters: Politics 11/19/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Sen. Hillary Clinton is to be picked by President-elect Barack Obama as his secretary of state, it may well depend on a review of the business activities of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Obama Celebrates Biden’s Birthday —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/19/2008
Elizabeth Holmes reports on the transition.
The string of releases from President-elect Barack Obamas office of late have been super serious. Most days he holds no public events and the only word that comes out of his meetings is a list of ...
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