Bangkoktraveler Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 I would say GWB has brought about the biggest change, and none of it has been good. Obama ha his hands full when he becomes President; not a job I wish on anybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 More appointments As expected, the president-elect named Timothy Geithner, the New York Federal Reserve president, as his treasury secretary. Wall Street stocks jumped on Friday when word of Geithner's appointment began to leak. Geithner, 47, will team with Lawrence Summers, a treasury secretary under former President Bill Clinton and former Harvard University president, who will take over the National Economic Council. Obama also named three others on his economic team: Christina Romer as director of the Council of Economic Advisers. Romer is a U.C. Berkeley professor of economics, and co-director of monetary economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Melody Barnes as director of the Domestic Policy Council. She has been co-director of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama transition team, and also served as the senior domestic policy advisor to Obama during the campaign. Barnes previously worked at the Center for American Progress and as chief counsel to Sen. Ted Kennedy. Heather Higginbottom as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. She was Obama's policy director during the campaign and earlier served as Sen. John Kerry's legislative director. Democratic officials also said Obama plans to name New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as commerce secretary, adding a prominent Hispanic and one-time Democratic presidential rival to his Cabinet. Richardson served as U.N. ambassador in the Clinton administration and later as energy secretary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngfarang Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 ... Republicans sniped at what they saw as an unwelcome trend. Alex Conant' date=' spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, "Barack Obama is filling his administration with longtime Washington insiders."... [/quote'] We have a name for those people: EXPERIENCED! Tell me, if you are all about "experience" than why the hell were you backing a community organiser????? 2 years experince as a senator? One of the highest earmarks by a senator. I don't understand please elaborate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 ... Republicans sniped at what they saw as an unwelcome trend. Alex Conant' date=' spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, "Barack Obama is filling his administration with longtime Washington insiders."... [/quote'] We have a name for those people: EXPERIENCED! Tell me, if you are all about "experience" than why the hell were you backing a community organiser????? 2 years experince as a senator? One of the highest earmarks by a senator. I don't understand please elaborate. Obama has the skills to manage a group and the group members he is bringing together do have a considerable amount of experience. Obama will probably be the opposite of GWB. GWB's future in the history books doesn't look very good. He probably will go down in history as the worst President the USA has ever had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 Thatâ??s a tough call and your personal feelings have obliterated any historical perspective you might have had, nevertheless, I seriously doubt that GWB will be ever on many best presidents lists in the future. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 On a different note, I see that Timothy Geithner is a gradate of ISB (he did primary school in India) before going on to Dartmouth. Not exactly the spoiled expat kid that is given here as the stereotypical ISB student that can't make in the US. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 He speaks mandarin as well. The guy seems to have a lot of candlestick power. He's the same age as Obama and both share a passion for basketball as well. This is interesting... Lieberman: Obama 'about perfect' in Cabinet picks "Everything that President-elect Obama has done since election night has been just about perfect, both in terms of a tone and also in terms of the strength of the names that have either been announced or are being discussed to fill his administration," Lieberman said during a visit to Hartford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 The Conservatives hearald Obama as the Messiah but like everything the Conservatives have tried, it has backfired upon them. If this pattern continues, I can expect that as the Conservatives continue to mock Obama as the Messiah, Obama might actually become the Messiah that will lead us back on the path. If Obama isn't the Messiah, we might end up being doomed as a country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 Truth is would we be any more confident about the future had McCain won? Especially knowing that Palin is a hearbeat away from the oval office as well? I don't think McCain could do better. In fact, I think he'd do worse seeing what I saw of how he behaved in the campaign. Ron Paul was my guy but of the Obama v. McCain choice its still a no brainer after the fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted November 26, 2008 Report Share Posted November 26, 2008 McCain is not an organization man whereas Obama knows how to organize people and get task done. Sarah Palin if, she got the top seat, it would be a disaster. The greater fear I would have with her is her lack of Constitutional law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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