Same old insiders

It’s tempting to use the phrase ‘not the change you counted on’, but….that’s getting too familiar, overexposed and disappointing.

Sort of like the new administration shaping up to take this nation into…the future?

For these last two years, the picture we have had of our president-elect has been, without exception, that of a gentleman, proud yet humble, with an inner centeredness.

Moreover, he surrounded himself with people who seemed much like him.

But now we have moved to the second act. Now we are into the naming of his first real Cabinet members and closest White House advisers. And any sensible person simply has to wonder, “What in the very devil is going on?”

Instead of creating that “government of unity” that he talked about and positioning the best people for the jobs at hand around him, Barack Obama is, quite incredibly, appointing some of the nastiest people in Washington and bringing into his administration some of those least-talented for the special jobs at hand.

He has begun filling up his administration not with new faces of 2008 but with old visages that we’ve been seeing since the politically correct cultural revolution of 1968 turned the Democrats into a far and eternally losing left—exactly what many of the voters who went for Obama thought they were leaving behind.

Right. Or…left, as the case seems to be.

Geyer asks lots of questions in this piece, probing especially the possibilities of Clinton(s) at State.

She voted for the Iraq War (while Obama was elected mostly because of his stance against the war). She pushed her husband not to attack the awful Bosnian massacres because it would call attention away from her health plan, which, of course, turned out disastrously.

It is also curious that, in article after article about the Clinton “leak,” her talents or non-talents were little mentioned. Instead, it was Bill Clinton who was, again, focused on. Would he—could he—ever really stand in the background, given his “expressive” personality? Would his questionable business dealings with countries all over the world interfere with his wife’s work as secretary? How much would he—would both of them—outshine even someone as shining as Obama?

But here’s the bottom line:

The American people didn’t vote for Obama to then find the people they voted against in the positions most closely surrounding him.