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this makes Richardson and excellent candidate!
Richardson was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the release of hostages, American servicemen, and political prisoners in North Korea, Iraq, and Cuba
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Bachelor's degree at Tufts in 1970, majoring in French
Oh My! He speaks English,Spanish and French.!!
Good choice Mr. Obama!
The Obama transition team is interviewing to find a woman, perhaps a minority woman, to fill the CEA chair — a Senate-confirmed position. Informed sources suggest the candidates on the CEA list now include Princeton University economics and public affairs professor Cecilia Elena Rouse, whose specialty is labor economics. The hunt for a woman, explained several sources close to the transition deliberations, is aimed at broadening the white-male cast of the White House team assembled to date (the current tally of announced picks is 3 women, 9 men).
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21...
Seriously, I think Richardson is a good candidate.
I keep hearing people talk about how people are insiders or whatever, but we have to remember, Clinton filled his new cabinet the first term with unknowns and it was a disaster in the beginning. I think what Obama is doing is very smart, it helps counter his 'experience' factor that seems to freak out so many people on the Right. He's surrounding himself with an all star cabinet of very smart and talented people. As a President elect, you have to balance your choice with certainty in qualifications. If it's SOS, then other Governments are looking at whom they will be dealing with and hoping it's someone well liked around the world, and if it's Treasure Secty, the market is going to be looking for it to be someone who has the experience to hopefully put things back on track, etc etc.
It's a fine line and I think Obama is a doing an awesome job so far.
Some of things labor policies need to do: restore equity at the bargaining table, provide for more labor involvement in policy making--collective bargaining is not working any more, take health insurance OFF the table by providing national health care, make it easier for workers to form a union (yep, the infamous union cards).
And the pathetic minimum wage needs to be addressed. How about parity with minimum wages in other industrialized states, for a start?
Endorsed Obama. And there's this: In 2002, he ran for Governor of Massachusetts. He also published an associated campaign book, I'll Be Short. Reich was the first Democratic candidate for a major political office to support same-sex marriage. He also pledged support for abortion rights, and strongly condemned capital punishment. His campaign staff was largely made up of his Brandeis students. Although his campaign had little funding, he surprised many and came in second in the Democratic primary with 25% of the vote. Later, instead of running against him, he endorsed Deval Patrick.
I think he could be a bigger help now in the private sector.
good to have someone like him outside of Washington to be so positive.
Hey! Excellent idea! I love it! <g>
You call this CHANGE?
I think it's better to call it the new CLINTON administration!
Looks like Hillary won after all!!
CONGRATULATIONS!
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Fair warning...
What this person ignores is the distinction that this will be an administration that will at least refrain from the smirks, snears, and outright wild laughter at the concepts of honor, integrity, character, as well as caring, humanity and decency. Oh, these are still crass politicians, and there will be corruption scandals, but it will no longer be a free for all of stealing everything in sight while getting their jollies out of the suffering, sickness and death of common people. Our soldiers are still going to die in outrageous wars, but we won't have Bush smirking and paying off the soldiers mothers with his gold Bush dollar coin insulting them with the ugly insinuation that those coins are more valuable than the lives of their loved ones.
For all that I am disappointed in Obama, he is nothing like George W. Bush and can't be. For one thing, he is human not a chimpanzee. He actually has a real human heart, and sees his daughters with true parental love rather incestuous lust. A crass, exploitive, political Obama is still something far, far different than the total inhumanity of Bush. I also despised, destested and hated Clinton, but at least, Clinton also had a real human heart beating in his chest.
Geithner... Treasury
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15872...
from last Spring
http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id...
Go to Newsroom
Man in the News: Timothy Geithner
Krishna Guha and Gillian Tett
Friday Mar 21 2008 13:15
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"Mr Geithner is one of the most powerful economic officials in the world. Yet he still looks more like the gifted young aide of 1997 than an omnipotent central banker. This is partly his youthful appearance - only 46 years old in any event, he looks 10 years younger. But it is also his style, which manages to be casual and driven at the same time."
Sigh! Too bad! That is exactly what we need in government now, officials with integrity after the corruption, lies, crookedness and dishonesty of the Bush administration. Come on! I mean Cheney was still receiving compensation from Halliburton and then Halliburton and KBR received how many unbid contracts. No wonder since he was clearly still an employee and benefitted directly from those contracts.
The Obama team must know of Richardson's corruption, and I will be extremely disappointed in Obama if he selects Richardson as part of his team--apparently only to fill a Latino quota.