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• Monday, November 24, 2008 06:26 AM

  This is already change

  Change is already happening.

  Politicians take the professional political roles, advisers are the laypeople who advise the politicians, and lobbyists are those who are paid to represent interests. If Obama truly isn't surrounding himself with lobbyists right now, I find that amazing and astounding and yes, that is change. Pay attention.

  I would rather not see so many Clintonites in the administration myself, but to be practical, who else? Since I voted for Barack Obama and these are his picks, I will trust that this is the team he decided will be the most effective. I voted for his judgement and certainly not for his progressive ideology which he never claimed in the first place. Besides, I don't see very many suggestions of who will be better, and we have too many problems to get all stuck in some ideological muck. Fires need to be put out first and experience counts in emergencies.

  Obama's cabinet is far left to Bush's, far far left, so that makes him much more progressive. However he never claimed to be some stealth Green Party candidate.

  I also think part of the dissapointment is the lack of punishment for the Bush administration. I would like to see those criminals punished also. But we have problems and that is not a good use of energy right now and Obama was up front about that also. We won, but now the real work begins. We all have local reps. Keep in close contact with them to make sure the streams of change continue. This is only beginning.

  —peeps1 Read peeps1's other letters
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