OH MY GOD! Geithner was in the Clinton administration?!?!?!?! How is this change???

[GarbagemanLB]

Still a relatively youthful 47, Geithner already has a lengthy stint at Treasury under his belt. He joined the department in 1988 and worked his way up to under secretary for international affairs during the Clinton administration under former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and then under Summers, who succeeded Rubin as Treasury chief.


http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4AK6UT20081121

I demand my vote be refunded!


:sarcasm:

At least, that is what I am guessing some people on DU posted.

[lapfog_1]

1. Actually, I'm much more troubled about his

more recent activities. Starting with his decisions regarding how to spend the first $300 B of the bailout fund and how that money was directed.

[Tempest]

2. I don't like it, but it does show the conservatives was wrong

The conservatives said Obama would govern as a Liberal.

He's quickly put that idea to rest.


If I knew Obama's "change" meant rising Clinton officials from the dead, at least I would have known his change really meant.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Doesn't matter. They're going to call Obama a liberal anyway.

They're still calling the Clintons liberal too, even though they were and are anything but. Hell, when Hillary's neocon war rhetoric was to the right of Chimpy's during the primaries, they STILL called her a "liberal".

[Skwmom]

5. Clinton is a liberal. A liberal-Corporatist-Neocon.

[uponit7771]

9. Obama wont be a neocon, fiscal neocons are anti worker and supply siders...

...and hate regulation

[opihimoimoi]

7. I'm w you...it don't matter.....and so what if them Pub s call us whatever...we can call Them LOSERS

BWAhahahaha

[Skwmom]

4. He should have explained that turning the page meant going back to 1992.

[uponit7771]

6. Come on, do you REALLY think we can stand taking 90 days to get up to speed?

[Tempest]

11. I'm not sure what you mean by that

But there are capable people out there and there's been no indication they were even up for consideration.

Paul Krugman and Dennis Kucinich are two I can think of.

[Sebastian Doyle]

15. Dennis, for treasury secretary?

Hey I love the guy, but seriously??

Krugman probably would have been better than another piss down supply side Wall Street insider. Robert Reich was my pick.

[Tempest]

16. That's not what I said

Kucinich wasn't considered for any post.

Neither was Krugman.

[dflprincess]

10. "The more things change the more they remain the same." (eom)

[cali]

13. bzzzt. doesn't show how he's going to govern at all.

We'll have to wait and see on that.

[Tempest]

19. So he's going to hire a bunch of people he's not going to listen to and follow their advice?

So why does he need a cabinet at all?

[cali]

22. first of all, I can't imagine a better way of passing his

agenda- which is indeed quite liberal- than having a cabinet that is not perceived as wild eyed pinko commie liberals. And you really haven't bothered to inform yourself at all about anything, obviously. He always said that he'd surround himself with people who would challenge him. Not only that but his two closest senior advisors are indeed liberals. And Daschle is right where Obama is on heathcare.

Try and educate yourself.

[Tempest]

23. If his agenda is quite liberal

Then why is he stacking his cabinet with rightwing DLC'ers?


You're free to continue your blind obedience while ignoring the facts on the ground, but I'll stay skeptical while I acknowledge the reality of the situation.

[ecstatic]

8. actually the meme is "Kissinger ties!" Series nt

[Armstead]

12. from those wonderful folks who brought you corporatist "free trade" globalism

Maybe some of us are being too impatient, but some of you might want to add a bit of healthy skepticism, instead of blindly assuming that more of the same is a good thing.

[GarbagemanLB]

14. Excuse me if I am giving Obama some leeway because he has a) shown excellent judgement

before and b) isn't President yet and has not made any policy statements/decisions.

[Armstead]

17. Leerway is fine.....But don't hide your head and insult those who question

One of the biggest screw-ups of the last 25 years has been the capitulation of our economy to the dictates of "free trade" corporatist globalism.

We should have been more vigilant when Bush 1 and Clinton were ramming it down our throats. And now that we are seeing the catastrophic results, we have even less excuse to buy that particular brand of Kool Aid, even if it is in a bright shiny newe package.

[Skwmom]

18. Don't you know it's stupid to question policies that have gotten us into this mess?

[rucky]

20. Bono for Treasury Secretary

now THAT would be change!

[Tempest]

24. Nelson Mandela for HHS

That would be change.

[xchrom]

21. 'change' will be in the eye of the beholder. nt

[demo dutch]

25. Change would happen without experience, learning on the job would be disastrous