Obama promised change but picking insiders
Daschle, Clinton, Holder, Emanuel are all familiar with corridors of power

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.

Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary. Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed more likely than ever to be his secretary of state. Clinton is deciding whether to take that post as America's top diplomat, her associates said Wednesday.

Obama is ready to announce that his his attorney general will be Eric Holder, the Justice Department's No. 2 when Clinton's husband was president. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff , is another veteran of the Clinton White House. . . .

What do you think?

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"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
- George Orwell Animal Farm

I think the country is in a disastrous state and he needs to pick the best people for the job -- which includes people experiences. "Washington Insider" is a snarky way for the author to write "experienced," IMO.

Sure wish you'd posted the link so I could read the whole thing. Unless you wrote it yourself?

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Sorry. . .thought I had.

My Way News - President-elect promised change, picking insiders

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"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
- George Orwell Animal Farm

We were referring to changing the horrible course that the Republican neocon/theocracy was setting us on. The course that many of us predicted and dreaded. The course that has, indeed, come to pass. With any luck, it isn't too late. CHANGE ----- It's a good thing.

PS - I've applied for a healthcare policy position within the Obama administration. God, what I wouldn't give to work with Daschle as he works to reform our current health care financing system.