huffingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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Speaking to reporters for the third time in three days, Barack Obama was asked directly whether the staff choices he had made for his cabinet and advisory positions conflicted with his campaign message that the next president simply couldn't tap the same people for different posts.
Obama, ...
politico.com - 11/23/2008
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politico.com —
As the top tier of his cabinet comes
into focus it looks unlikely that Obama will break...
new ground when it comes to fashioning a bipartisan government.
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Whither the cabinet Republicans?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/26/2008
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From NBC's Athena Jones CHICAGO -- In response
to criticism that he is departing from his promise...
to bring change to Washington because several members of his economic team were Beltway insiders, Barack Obama said today that his team would ...
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Obama: Change comes from me
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Obama Takes Down Media’s ‘Conventional Wisdom’: ‘The Vision For Change Comes From Me’
Think Progress —
... Obama said his personnel selections will “combine experience with fresh thinking.” But he underscored that the buck stops with him: ...
Obama's National Security And Foreign Policy Team
Newshoggers.com —
... his opponents of leaving the country at risk without experienced hands at the helm instead of the current cries of "no change there". He also stated, clearly, that he expects his cabinet to follow his lead:
"Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost," he said. "It comes from me. That's my job, to provide a vision in terms of where we are going and to make sure then that my team is implementing [that vision]."
HuffPo has the vid. ...
Obama Takes Down Media?s ?Conventional Wisdom?: ?The Vision For Change Comes From Me?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... if I selected a Treasury secretary who had had no connection with the last Democratic administration because that would mean the person had no experience in Washington whatsoever. And I suspect you would be troubled and the American people would be troubled if I selected a Treasury secretary or a chairman of the National Economic Council…who had no experience whatsoever. Obama said his personnel selections will “combine experience with fresh thinking.” But he underscored that the buck stops with him : But understand where the vision for change comes from first and foremost. It ...
Rolling Back the Fog at Justice
democracyarsenal.org —
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Obama has reiterated, his Government won't be an apparatus where one department or
one cabinet official will dictate the policy in his or her own fiefdom. And while the AG is unique in that it has a tradition demanding more independence from the Executive (something Holder has previously pointed to) than other cabinet posts, on the major issues of tackling terror and protecting civil liberties, there is a clear picture that the "vision for change comes from" Obama. Most importantly, the policies underlying Obama's imperative to ...
A Loud Silence
Antiwar.com Original —
... " gambit that is supposed to inoculate Obama against criticism from the pro-war right this pre-inaugural political drama is a dress rehearsal for betrayal. Antiwar voters, who ...
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Obama's Useful Idiots Discovering They're No Longer Useful
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 11/21/2008 — Hope, change and whining. The election is over 16 days now and all the promises of a shiny new progressive world haven't yet materialized. It's one thing to pander to the far left, but when it comes time to actually be president, Barack Obama at least ...
Has Media Let Obama's Reversal Pass Unnoticed?
newsbusters.org 11/27/2008 — Obama is starting to feel a bit of pressure from members of the far left of his own party who are beginning to raise their eyebrows over the fact that he hasn't shown any desire to institute any "change" thus far with his staff and cabinet picks even ...
Our Dear Leader —
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Judging by the proliferation of capital letters in the e-mail correspondence I receive, many seem worried that Barack Obama may not deliver the promised “change we can believe in.”
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Obama Tells Disappointed Supporters: "I Am the Change." —
Gateway Pundit
Oh, brother... Barack Obama told his disappointed supporters who voted for him on the promise of change only to find him appoint old Clintonites and Bush cabinet members not to be upset-- "I am the change." McClatchy reported: President-elect Barack Obama essentially said Wednesday that he ...
Media Giving Obama A Pass On Hope ‘N Change Flip Flops —
Say Anything
Newsbusters :
Obama explains away his lack of “change” and his picking of a plethora of out-of-work Clintonites by saying that who he puts on his staff and cabinet don’t matter. It’s because he is the change we seek, you see? But, wait, you might ask. If the press ...
More Change: Richardson as Commerce Secretary —
Stop The ACLU
The more things change the more they stay the same.
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be commerce secretary, adding a prominent Hispanic and one-time Democratic rival to his expanding Cabinet.
Obama planned to announce the nomination after ...
A Change from Change —
Pundits Blog
Has Barack Obama — who campaigned against the experienced candidate on a message of change — been swayed by experience? Looks that way.
With his leaked-but-not-yet-official Cabinet rollout, it appears Obama is far more practical than he had let on, and has bet experience beats change when ...
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