I wonder who is lining Obama's pockets to get him to choose some of his picks for positions in his administration. Many others are wondering about his judgement also.
DKos
Obama surrounding himself with NeoCon advisors
There are many reasons why the selection of Hillary Clinton to run Obama's Foreign Policy is inexplicably wrong. And it also represents a slap in the face to the anti-War activists the put him where he is.
Obama told us all that change happens not from the top down, but from the bottom up.
But now we are seeing Obama betray the whole movement that elevated him past the once-unstoppable Clinton juggernaut, and placed him into his leadership position.
So far, Obama has done nothing but surround himself with the same old entrenched business-as-usual, pro-War, pro-CEO-Bailout, pro-NAFTA, anti-Government-Accountibility faces that have been totally wrong on the great issues of our time for the last eight years (and very bad for the Nation).
For example, the idea that Obama would even remotely consider Bush-picked Robert Gates to remain fixed in the prosecution of these two failed Wars is absolutely unthinkable. I mean, just who won this Election anyway?
The NeoCons? I thought they were defeated.
It is one thing to appoint Hillary Clinton to a Cabinet position to govern some domestic issue. But Clinton has proven to be a congential liar on Foreign Policy matters (Iraq, Iran) for eight years, and she just parrots every NeoCon/AIPAC/AEI warmongering talking-point that is put out there in the media. She does not fact check, and always aligns herself with the War Hawks as a first response. For example, she even voted against a ban on the use of civilian-killing (children-killing) Cluster Bombs (which have been outlawed by 100 other Nations).
Her judgement is: wrong, wrong again, and stubborn.
So why, out of all the people on earth, is she brought in now to run the new Foreign Policy?
Or rather, the not-so-new Foreign Policy? This just undermines the whole credibility of the Obama "change" narrative. Wasn't her side defeated? It also unnecessarily creates a scandal rich political football for the GOP to have a field day attacking the new administration over. Why would anyone want to ever go down that road all over again, much less Obama?
We threw our support to Obama over Hillary Clinton, primarily because of her proven bad judgement and stubborn judgement on Foreign Policy (Iraq, Iran), and because of her dishonesty on those subjects. Obama would bring in fresh thinking and not be beholden to the business-as-usual NeoCon-beltway crowd. While Obama was never exactly the "anti-War candidate" in the Eugene McCarthy/Robert Kennedy/George McGovern/Jimmy Carter/Dennis Kucinich/Mike Gravel sense, he was at least the anti-Iraq-War candidate. That was the essential difference between them. You'd think then that the very last thing on earth that Obama would ever do is just turn right around and staff-up his administration with the promoters of the failed and disgraced Bush-Cheney Iraq position.
How the hell does this make any sense? And we have also been reading about how Obama will not be prosecuting any members of the plainly corrupt Bush-Cheney administration, even on the isolated issue of Human Torture!
Obama is saying loud and clear here: No We Can't!
No We Can't uphold and defend the United States Constitution.
No we can't do that in America.
For a man who claims to have "taught" Constitutional Law, one wonders just what the heck Obama was really teaching? Clearly, our Founding Fathers would grade the so-called "teacher" to be an F student.
We should not just "trust" anything that is going on right now, when all the initial steps point to the same cronies holding key positions of power.
Tell me why, if Obama is so "smart" and trustworthy, is he choosing to surround himself with the same failed advice from the same failed people for the next 8 years? Just how does doing that provide any new thinking?
Where are the people who got it right on Foreign Policy matters here?
Where are the government reformers?
Where are the truth-tellers?
Where are the whistlebowers?
Where are the consumer watchdogs?
There is a saying: "garbage-in, garbage-out"
If Obama surrounds himself with the same old damn garbage that we have already suffered under for the last 8 years, we'll just get the same old garbage and no fundamental change at all. We are already seeing this unfold, with the continued parade of CEO baliouts, letting a Bush-Cheney-Halliburton apologist (Lieberman) continue to hold power over the commitees.
What we are seeing here is nothing less than Obama walking the Election of 2008 backwards, as if it never happened. Obama is insulating himself against any bottom-up movement by ratifying and entrusting the very people that brought you eight years of hell!
The same corrupt clowns, war-hawks, transnational-corporate-crooks, and anti-Constitutionalists, are going to remain in positions of power.
The grassroots should be very angry about this.
We rejected Hillary Clinton, because we thought Obama was better than that.
Obama would have us believe that the NeoCons won their re-election anyway.
We can't seem to get them out of their positions of control.
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