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Let's say he put the Rev. Wright in charge of the Office of Racial Affairs, Dennis Kucinich as head of the Fed, Chomsky at Education and Nader at Commerce. We progressives would swoon with bliss. Most everybody else, here and abroad, would be shocked and horrified. "Ideologues!" they'd shout. "Commies! Radicals!" Starting now, government would be paralyzed, and the world media would be in a permanent state of frenzy.
We're pimped, more often than not, by presidential candidates, and maybe B.O. is of that same stuff; maybe that's what he means by "change," what everybody else calls "bait and switch," but I hope not. If he wants and needs to get something very big done, he wants and needs smart, experienced people. He's made it plenty clear (maybe this is the only thing he shares with W): he's the decider, not his staff. We don't have to be crazy about them, only about the quality of their work, and this might be a crew that can DELIVER!
