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Barack Obama won this election against all odds. He employed careful strategy in forgiving Lieberman. One of the best potentially unintended results of this decision is that Obama clearly illustrated, without having to say a word, what a jackass Lieberman made of himself in the past few months.
Obama may be hiring people we've seen before, but I honestly believe that he's one step ahead of everyone in this game and I trust him. I have not trusted a president in my adult life time, but I trust Obama to be smarter than every pundit, opinion writer and day-time cable news anchor out there. Who else is he supposed to appoint? Show me a list of cabinet appointees that will serve well in an Obama administration that is 100% untainted from the Clinton era and I'll mail you a box of candy.
I never believed that Obama could accomplish everything he told us he wanted to accomplish- but if we could get just 1/3d of that list- it would be huge. But seriously - let the guy get inaugurated, let him get his desk set up, let him take a breath before he has to go before the firing squad of the nay-sayers and the "press". If I were in charge, the first thing I'd ban is 24-hour cable news. One reason is because MSNBC keeps taking articles JUST LIKE THIS ONE and reporting them as FACTUAL, instead of as the OPINION pieces they are.
And on a final note, I didn't vote for Obama because I thought his marker was furthest to the left on the political spectrum - I voted for him because I think he's smart and I think he cares, just a little bit, about what happens to me and mine. So Obama can put Bozo the Clown in his cabinet for all I care, I think that he will be in control of these people and I believe that under his leadership, they will work towards his original goals, not their underlying self-serving ones.
