Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama says…

[Jenifer Cartwright]

It's also possible (reminder that Obama calls himself a progressive in Audacity of Hope) that this has nothing to do w/ his critics, but reflects his own vision and in fact will be part of his own agenda to the extent possible (considering what a horrendous mess the economy, etc is in, how cautious he must be). 
 --Jenifer

--- On Thu, 11/27/08, Brussel Morton K. <mkbrussel at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Brussel Morton K. <mkbrussel at comcast.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama says…
To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 3:21 PM



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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