Prior discussion: Mr. Obama don’t sell out so fast !
There was a tone in Obama’s campaign and that had to do with a change in attitude and a change that we can believe in. Promises of trust, values and not the same old politics. It wasn’t as much the plans as it was that tone that PEOPLE responded to.
On the other hand although Hillary Clinton’s plans were basically the same as Obama’s and despite the strong Clinton Machine and major support in the beginning, she still lost because she broke most barriers of decency in her campaign. She lost not to Obama but to herself and her “whatever it takes “, self centered attitude!
I saw Obama’s press conference yesterday and how he tried to played these issues down as campaign extremes, but that did not remove the fact that Hillary stops at nothing when it comes to what she wants. On the other hand Obama by taking the higher road during the campaign proved that one can stay DECENT and people will respond and vote. esterday’s choice of Hillary was a slap in the face of those who wanted such VALUES in the Whitehouse but that is not how “same old politics” works.
By choosing Hillary, Obama allowed Drama in his cabinet and most probably as it has been obvious in the past few weeks and in the press conference, this can continue.
Hillary will expect and receive special treatments as she did during the press conference. In prior announcement of the members of Obama Team, they just stood in back and Obama did the speech. Last week at the midst of one of the biggest economic crisis facing US and the world, Obama’s economic team stood quietly while Obama did all the talking. but this time Obama HAD TO give preferential treatment to Hillary and let her speak too! and, in order to balance, he arranged for other members of the national security team to speak also.
One thing is seeming more and more probable to me is sthat: Obama did not have much of a choice in choosing Hillary as the Secretary of State! In other words, Hillary secured this post as well as paying off her mismanaged campaign expenses BEFORE she agreed to supporting Obama against McCain. and in order to win the presidency and having the bigger picture in mind, Obama had to accept the deal. If anyone watched the DNC convention, California and other major states had to skip their turn to avoid Obama being nominated before Hillary’s turn to announce her support! In other words they had to avoid obvious Obama’s nomination until Hillary said so. The show was all fixed in the back rooms and most probably so was Hillary’s potential future role!
Anyway what’s done is done and Obama will continue to have my support as long as he remains on track. Meanwhile we best believe Obama on his recent words :
“Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost, It comes from me. That’s my job, to provide a vision in terms of where we are going and to make sure then that my team is implementing [it].”
