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Scott, You should read more carefully. David was IN FAVOR of Summers, OPPOSED to Bonior.
RL @ 9:06 AM PST, Nov 13, 2008
President Elect Obama is a very wise and intelligent man. He will make his choices based on what HE thinks is right - not on what everyone else thinks. Give the man a chance! I believe he will be a great President.
Samilt9 @ 10:39 AM PST, Nov 12, 2008
Maybe we should bring back the people who got us in this mess during the Clinton Administration and now see the error of their ways. It seems that both Larry Summers and Robert Reich recognize the negative effect of globalization on the Middle Class. Summers recently wrote that the Asian poor and the worlds rich are the only groups benefiting from globalization. He said that in America, every household in that bottom 80 percent is writing a check for $7,000 every year and sending it to the top 1 percent. The problem is can he stop what he help start and convince others including one of the contributor to this article?
Ransome @ 10:29 AM PST, Nov 12, 2008
it seems like David was pro Summers, not against.
ilya @ 9:52 AM PST, Nov 12, 2008
David, too bad there aren't very many republicans that are qualified to be in a "intelligent" administration. We've just seen the best of what the republicans had to offer, and it doesn't look good. The only execption is Colon Powell. He should find his way into this administration.
Obama ran on change @ 9:35 AM PST, Nov 12, 2008
Look at what unions have done to Europe. High unemployment and no economic growth.
ted @ 7:33 AM PST, Nov 12, 2008
I'd like to see Hillary in the new cabinet tossed salad, but being a woman you could call me partial. I'll tell you what won't work, though: Kucinich; he's too much of a soapbox independent to speak for the people. There's no 'I' in 'team', or in 'government' for that matter. He'd be interesting if this were a sitcom casting, not the candidacy for cabinet. I'm prepared to put my foot in my mouth if he gets there, though.
Erika Haines @ 5:48 AM PST, Nov 12, 2008
Bill Ayres, Secretary of the Defense Jeremiah Wright, Secretary of the Treasury Tony Rezko, Attorney General
James Wilson @ 7:06 PM PST, Nov 11, 2008
What mandate? Obama got 52% of the vote. LBJ got 61% in '64. Nixon got 60% in 1972. And Reagan got 59% in 1986. Now those were mandates.
Max Plank @ 4:56 PM PST, Nov 11, 2008
Centrist, schmentrist. Conservatives are coming out everywhere against Robert Kennedy, Jr., for EPA. This is shows what an powerful choice he will be for that position. Republicans gave us James Watt and Gale Norton at Interior, now they want Obama to put Casper Milquetoast in at EPA because he promised to share his toys. Uh, no. As for David Bonior's union ideas being frozen in the fifties, that's about where most manufacturing salaries are, too. The idea of families with stable, robust incomes living in houses they can actually afford seems to scare the right wing silly, but I kind of like it.
Tony Zito @ 4:48 PM PST, Nov 11, 2008