William Daley replaces Rahm - Mr NAFTA picked by Obama

[upi402]

William Daley replaces Rahm - Mr NAFTA picked by Obama? Another fox in the chicken coup.

I guess Gore liked this corporate Dem, anti-middle class guy too. Gore hired him for his Presidential run.
Daley is yet another Big Business, anti-working class "Democrat".

Still an Obama believer? Still think corporatists don't populate our party?

[Name removed]

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[PBS Poll-435]

2. Wasn't Daley a good guy during the first stages of Gore's recount? nt

[still_one]

3. Regardless, he pushed NAFTA, was against HCR and financial reform. Whose interests are those? /nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. He was pushing the agenda of his boss, Bill Clinton

[AtomicKitten]

4. Howard Dean endorsed him yesterday. nt

[Major Hogwash]

5. Isn't he from Chicago?

Is he related to Mayor Daley?

Seems odd to hear that name associated with the White House.

[Lochloosa]

8. They are brothers

[somone]

6. The chief of staff controls access to the president

Guess who he's going to give access to? Dirty hippies?

[tavalon]

7. Howard Dean endorsed him last night

I will watch and wait for a bit because of that. There are few politicians left for whom I care much about what escapes their piehole. Dean is one of those I do care about. He had caveats and we must watch for them, but if Howard is comfortable, I'm not going to jump out of a high window, yet.

[upi402]

10. Okay I'll step away from the edge

But I have heard this song soooo many times that I can sing along.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

15. I'm with you on that............

Dean's endorsement means something to me, but that whole "once bit, twice shy" thing still looms in my mind.

[EFerrari]

25. Yeah, Howard is wrong. Daley said Obama's health insurance bill

was "overreaching", and lobbied against that puny financial reform bill. And he was heading up Chase during all those illegal foreclosures.

No need to jump out of a window. It's just business.

[sharp_stick]

11. Dean likes him

plus he does what his boss asks him to do. Sounds like a good Chief of Staff to me.

Tossing the term corporatist around here is pretty much on par with the teabaggers use of the term Socialist. A simple meaningless insult with no substance to it.

[w4rma]

12. Dean also said that they disagree on politics. (nt)

[girl gone mad]

17. Just so you're clear..

The term "corporatist", when applied to government officials, infers a definite preference for policies which promote the interests of big business and other moneyed parties above the rights of the individual and/or the well being of the nation, environment, future generations, etc. It may indeed be a simple insult, but it most certainly is also substantive and meaningful.

[sharp_stick]

23. Oh I know what it means

I also know what Socialism is. They are both substantive and meaningful terms but are tossed around as simple insults and so lose all substantive meaning.

[mzmolly]

33. Agreed.

Then again, Dean is rational.

[mfcorey1]

13. It does not matter who he chooses. Someone will object for some reason. Moving on. nt

[mod mom]

14. This info via HuffPo is depressing:

-snip

Daley, currently the Midwest chairman of JPMorgan Chase and brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, raised some eyebrows this week when prior comments were uncovered suggesting he was an opponent of two landmark Obama administration initiatives -- health care reform and consumer protection.

" miscalculated on health care," Daley once told The New York Times in an interview. "The election of '08 sent a message that after 30 years of center-right governing, we had moved to center left -- not left."

As for Obama's creation of a consumer protection agency, Daley appeared equally resistant. The Wall Street Journal reported last year:

But when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called a top J.P. Morgan executive to ask for the bank's support in creating a new consumer-protection agency, the executive--former Commerce Secretary William Daley--said no, according to people familiar with the conversation. His boss believed that sufficient consumer safeguards were already on the books.

-snip

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/bill-daley-chief-of-staff_n_805184.html

[upi402]

18. Daley: Midwest chairman of JPMorgan Chase opposed Health Care and financial reform

...and people, even here on DU, dismiss Obama's appointments as a non-issue.
No wonder we're in this mess.

[lilyrl]

20. I wish people here would read this - there is NOTHING about this individual that demonstrates

...the President is going to continue to let the multi-nationals rule.

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. NAFTA was supported by "corporate Dems" Joe Biden, Bill Bradley, Tom Harkin, Ted Kennedy,

John Kerry, Carol Moseley-Braun, Patty Murray, and Paul Simon:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00395

[upi402]

24. A little info on those "heroes"

Murray is a worm that can turn on workers any time it's convenient. I know, I traveled to a state labor convention when she no-showed as Murray was about to stab her supporters in the back with her NAFTA vote. How has NAFTA turned out? Who was right?

Ted Kennedy has been called a "hollow lion" for his compromises. He even let Bush roll him on "No Child's Behind Left".
If you meet the Buddha in the road, don't turn your back.

John Kerry and Joe Biden are corporatists. It's a messy business when corporations run your nation and people are disenfranchised because they can't pay for TV propaganda ads and news stations. Biden voted with credit card companies to take working and middle class houses to pay credit debt. Vacation chalets and McMansions are protected.

[lilyrl]

19. I don't care what politician baptizes this - a JP Morgan Chase Executive who sold Nafta?

I don't care if Howard Dean or Jesus baptized this appointment.

The MAN WHO SOLD NAFTA to the public right before they are getting ready to attack social security?

I am sorry, but you don't hire the salesman of Nafta and a JP Chase Bank executive as the chief of staff if you are in ANY way serious about fighting and not aquiescing to the Banksters.

How'd Geithner work out for us?

[Erose999]

21. Aren't they trying to do a "NAFTA" agreement with Korea now? I think Daley's resume containing NAFTA

is no coincidence, now that the GOP-DLC-pseudo-Dems are all about "free trade" and the "free market".

[Fiendish Thingy]

22. Another shill aboard the Corporate Trojan Horse aka the Obama Administration n/t

[spanone]

26. fight fire with fire

[lilyrl]

28. Oh please....like Geithner was fighting fire with fire?

They are brought in to do the bidding of the corporate gods, not challenge them.

This has been shown across the board through this entire administration. Let's at least stop the game of pretend.

[upi402]

29. Welcome to DU

:toast: :hi: :pals:
It's actually like fighting fire with gasoline.
I guess the glass is half full... or half empty of Kool Aid for some.

[Erose999]

30. Fight NAFTA with Korean NAFTA, in other words?

[vi5]

27. Wow, what a surprise...

At this point it is now hysterical to watch the apologists spin and spin and spin over appointment after appointment after appointment of pro-corporate, anti-middle class people to almost every key position.


And no, I don't particularly care that Dean endorsed him. Dean also oppossed the Park 51 Center as well. He can, and has been wrong. I respect his opinion but on this he is also wrong.

[mzmolly]

31. Yes, I'm still a "believer."

So is Howard Dean.

[Dokkie]

32. its seems like

all the Chicago guys were all for NAFTA. I know Rahm Emmanuel was also a NAFTA guy. But I don't expect anything thing to change cos according to most people, it was the republican that pushed a reluctant Clinton into signing NAFTA and bill that was promised by many liberal representatives to be fixed

[upi402]

34. Clinton was a corporatist too, he wasn't pushed

He pushed for NAFTA, GATT, and the Telecommunications Acts that has turned the media into 90% propaganda.
Obama has the same crew as Clinton and they're still not on our side. Never have been, never will be.

Reaganomics will not be healed on their watch.

[Dokkie]

35. what a sad story

.sometimes it seems like we r cornered in by both parties. Any of the progressives I start to favors turns out to have some sort of corporatist/war mongering flaw after investigating their positions. I kinda knew that Obama was flawed when he started backpedaling on the NAFTA fix and after I saw Henry Kissinger sitting beside him in one of his early cabinet meetings. But slow death by te democrats is far better than a quick and otter destruction and ruination by the republicans

I just hope after 2 yrs I don't see anymore post about how the corporatist guys in the administration swayed Obama into supporting corporatist bills, because hes the one nominating them now.

[ecstatic]

36. Do you spend every waking moment figuring out ways to be outraged

at Obama? Look around! The repubs just took over the house and are about to try to turn the clock back. Time to get your priorities in order!