Obama makes first Cabinet selection:

White House Chief of Staff: Benjamin M. Emanuel

Who else might he pick?:

Secretary of Agriculture: Woody Harrelson
Secretary of the Interior: Louis Farrakhan
Secretary of Commerce: Bill Clinton
Department of Justice Attorney General: Hillary Clinton
Secretary of Defense: Rashid Khaldi
Secretary of Labor: Obama Girl (Shh! Don’t tell Michelle Obama)
Secretary of Education: Billy Ayers
Secretary of State: Colen Powell (get’s his pay-off.)
Secretary of Energy: Al Gore
Secretary of Transportation: Oprah (Maybe she’ll buy us all cars.)
Health & Human Services Secretary: Reverend Wright
Treasury Secretary: (Same Idiot) Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary: Bernadine Dohrn
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary: Samuel L. Jackson (He can at least play the part of a veteran)
Department of Housing & Urban Development Secretary: Tony Rezko

Other appointments
Supreme Court: Bill Clinton (That should keep him busy)
United Nations Ambassador Khalid Al Monsour
Press Secretary: Chris Matthews (Keith Olbermann Assistant Press Secretary)

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Saying that Obama is “without the fatal flaws of character” completely overlooks one serious problem. We don’t have any examples of his character. We have his recent behavior, none of which validates his character. We have associations, and those he has not disavowed do not speak to his character. We know more of a chronology of his life than we do of content of his life. What we have here is a sterile Manchurian Candidate with no information about him. Congratulations America, you have just bought your first sterile wrapped, consumer ready president. I for one am stepping away from the area when that package gets unwrapped and examined.

This man, well he looks to me like we found the Pandora’s box of political questions. Everybody I have ever met or heard of that had a mysterious background turned out bad for me to have encountered. Tell me folks, if your child brought home a kid his age and this kid just appeared in the neighborhood and is unwilling to discuss his past or is vague about it, you gonna let your kid go somewhere with him?

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Who is Obama?

I learned more about John McCain and Barack Obama watching a two hour, election-eve special on PBS, than I did in hundreds of hours of reading news stories and op-eds and viewing 3 complete Presidential debates:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/

As a Democrat who contributed financially to, worked for, and who voted for Barack Obama, I’d like to offer my take on the man.

Obama’s ambition is to be recognized as the greatest President in American history. He has plotted and managed his career with even greater foresight and skill than did Bill Clinton. He has greater assets than Clinton and none of the weaknesses. The fact that no one was able to dig up any sexual dirt on him virtually qualifies him for sainthood, given his obvious unlimited opportunities. He has ideals and he has friends, but he’s been willing to sacrifice both ideals and friendship to the imperatives of his one true loyalty, which is his own place in future history.

On the PBS/Frontline program, one of the most revealing segments was that of his Harvard Law School career, particularly that of his election to and tenure as President of the Harvard Law Review. Disappointing many of his supporters, he only named a single African-American to a masthead position on the Law Review, while naming 3 conservatives, one of whom later became a Bush White House lawyer.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/obama/harvard.html

(Scroll down to and read the comments of Bradford Berenson — said Bush White House lawyer)

Obama’s positions, whether on people or issues, have been both calculated and changeable. The strongest constant is the furtherance of his objective to succeed at the very highest level. This is not a person seeking to impose a Euro-socialist agenda. He’s been a Chicago liberal because its been expedient to be a Chicago liberal. It’s got him to where he is today. But he’s not about to sacrifice his opportunity to achieve historical greatness in the furtherance of social idealism or environmental idealism. And he’s a tough as nails SOB who will defend America, because this is also what is required for him to achieve the historical greatness he seeks.

He is a very smart, very shrewd, very dedicated, very pragmatic individual. I understand entirely why he may be antithetical to those who value people guided by unyielding “core beliefs” in ideals such as religion or economic doctrine or social doctrine or environmental doctrine.

I think that we have had Presidents guided by such principles. George W Bush was/is one of these Presidents. Ronald Reagan was another. Jimmie Carter was yet another.

Obama is more of the “cloth” of Clinton and Nixon, but he possesses greater skills, insight, political intelligence, and he fortunately appears to be without the fatal flaws of character.

The politics of his Presidency are likely to evolve away from the politics of what brought him to the Presidency.

He is certain to surprise.

Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach

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[EDITOR: Jan's off topic slam against Sarah Palin has been deleted by the post monitor!

Give your cut and paste brain a rest Jan.]

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Dow now down 359 at 12:37 but the real stats would be a comparison between the numbers in Jan 2007, when the democrats took control of congress after promising to ‘change’ the direction of the country, and todays numbers.

Hitler brought change to Germany in the 30′s.

Castro brought change to Cuba in 1959.

Dimmy Carter brought change to Iran/Islam in 1979.

Chavez brought change to Venezuela that has put thousands in the grave.

Democrats brought change to America in Jan 2007.

Just how much more change in this direction can we stand? Down is a direction, isn’t it?

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Scrapiron: Politics in appointments is once again O.K. Different rules for Democrats don’t you know? And Obama will have to make sure he owns the U.S. attorneys nationwide. Too many of his friends have been shoving illegal money into his campaign and will need protection.

And I see the Dow Jones index is continuing to crater:

http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1226005200000&chddm=1173&q=INDEXDJX:.DJI&ntsp=0

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They are showing several hundred people who will lose their jobs when Hussein O comes to town. Wasn’t Hussein part of the congress that went to war because GWB fired a few of the Clinton appointed lawyers (who like most democrats weren’t doing their job) at the justice department? Will Hussein O stand up and demand everyone keep their job? Na, in congress he was just displaying his BDS.

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DOW dow another 193 points at 11:00 A.M. on 11/06/08 as folks with brains get their money out and bury it in the back yard. Got a dollar in the oil/gas/COAL market you will better off investing in used McCain signs. You can at least use them to heat your home, if you don’t get fined for the smoke coming out the chimney.
Liberals were worried about the cost of Sarah Palins wardrobe. I wonder how much it cost the taxpayers to have ‘Omar the tent maker’ to make designer clothes for Michelle O.

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Jan: Are you planning to spend the next four years blaming eveything that goes wrong in this country on Sarah Palin? That would be typical of you loons. You never accept responsibility for ANYTHING.

And Brandon from Indonesia said this: “Voters who vote for Obama, will wait for Obama’s action, they don’t care about scandal … the scandal mean nothing to them.”

You got that right Brandon. The law is only supposed to apply to Republicans. Democrats can lie, cheat and steal once in office and no one cares.

P.S. Have you visited the Madrassa in Indonesia where Obama attended as a young boy? Or maybe you attended there yourself?

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The vacuous bulk of modern journalism…

“Now he must begin to spell out exactly how???

NOW??!”…

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