[Peace-discuss] Obama says…

[Brussel Morton K.]

Is Obama listening to his critics? In one sense, he seems to be. --mkb

 From http://www.truthout.org/112708D

Wednesday 26 November 2008

by: Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers

     Washington - President-elect Barack Obama essentially said  
Wednesday that he is the change, striving to assure Americans that  
he'll shake up Washington despite filling his administration with old  
hands from the Clinton administration and the capital's corridors of  
power.

     "Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and  
foremost," Obama said. "It comes from me. That's my job, is to  
provide a vision in terms of where we are going, and to make sure,  
then, that my team is implementing."

     Obama made the remarks as he tapped another old Washington hand  
- this one former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, as a top  
economic adviser - and prepared to name his former rival, Sen.  
Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as secretary of state next week.

     As a presidential candidate, Obama's central theme was that he'd  
change the way politics and the government work, and suggested that  
it'd take a fresh, outsider approach to do that. "Change doesn't come  
from Washington," he said. "Change comes to Washington."

     Yet he's raised questions about how much he can deliver on that  
promise given the long list of beltway insiders he's named, or  
signaled that he will name, to run his government.

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