- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Obama is picking competent, intelligent, experienced people for his Cabinet. The horror! Who are these fools that think he ought to be picking inexperienced idealogues who are going to rush in and impose radical and untested alterations on a nation which is already in crisis? Do you really think that all 'progressive' policies are likely to be exempt from the law of unintended consequences? That we can just legislate ourselves into peace, prosperity and universal healthcare without fetching up against a law of physics or two? And that, if we just ignore everybody who isn't an extreme leftist, they and their opinions, their influence and their interests will just go gently into that good night?
Jeez. It's a good thing that Obama is smarter than a lot of his supporters. If you actually listened to any of those silver-tongued speeches, you would have already understood that by 'change,' he never promised a radical progressive agenda. He merely promised to listen to people he doesn't agree with, bring competence and a sense of responsibility back to government, and end the polarizing, backbiting rhetoric of the political discourse. Which he IS DOING.
Those of you who are looking for triumph and revenge weren't paying attention.
