Obama is the change, the old hands are to implement his program

2 comments December 2nd, 2008

There’s been some griping on the left and in the press about Barack Obama’s “change” message and how that comports with his pick of a team of Washington insiders to run the executive branch.

I think Obama himself is the change, and he will carry out the things he wants to do. But to do them, you need people who know the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., otherwise a team of newcomers would be sandbagged by the long-timers of the permanent government.

So, Obama has gone for the best and brightest, and his picks, with the possible exception of Eric Holder for attorney general, are stellar. (Holder was instrumental in pardoning Marc Rich as well as FALN terrorists in the last hours of the Clinton administration.)

These are good, and reassuring choices to those who believed the Rushstream Media hype, that Obama is a militant left-wing extremist. I always thought he is a moderate liberal who would govern from the center so as to build as big a coalition as possible.

With the dual challenges of a double wars and a tanking economy, Obama needs all the experienced smart people he can find, and so far he’s showing he can get them on board.