This is change?

I was just reading a statement from Bob Woodward on this very subject, and burst out laughing.

Of course it's change -- we're changing back to a Clinton administration!

 

I just heard the pick for Treasury Secretary. I had never heard of the guy. Is he a Clinton holdover?

 

Is he the guy from Arizona?

 

No, he is connected to the Federal Reserve in New York at present. I was just wondering if he served in the Clinton administration.

 

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/television/woodward_knocks_clinton_sos_choice_101501.asp

 

Dunno - heard something on the Irish news tonight crediting his pick with an upsurge in the US Stock Market today.

 

The name is Timothy Geithner.

 

And the Bush/Clinton dynasty carries on

 

Anything that takes us away from the failed policies of George W. Bush is CHANGE enough for me.

 

So is Obama unable or unwilling to chose his own people? You gotta wonder whats going on, he beat Hillary, and is now chosing her and her husbands people.

 

Debts must be paid

 

He served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in 1998 to 2001 under the Treasury Secretaries of the Clinton administration.

 

Some feared his 'change.'
Some embraced his 'change.'
Neither are going to get it.

Status quo ad nauseam. Has a nice ring doesn't it ?

 

Obama critics were screaming before the election that he had no executive experience ... now that he is picking people who have had executive experience the same people are screaming again. Seven out of the last ten presidents have been Republican, so the pool of Democrats who have had executive experience is basically from the Clinton administration. The Carter people are a bit on the old side for these jobs. So, what is it you want, people with no experience, or people with experience?

That should make some critics breath easier.

I don't know about you Don, buy my personal economy was much better off under Clinton than it is now under Bush. Clinton may have been morally bankrupt, but times were much better under his administration. He was running a budget surplus, now we have become the largest debtor nation in the world. What a drop from 1980 when we were the largest creditor nation in the world.

 

There are lots of people with experience who didn't work in the Clinton adminstration and who haven't worked in Washington.

Clinton benefited from the dotcom boom and an adversarial Congress. The economy, overall, has been good under Bush. The housing market collapse, gambling in the stock market, easy credit, and the like are what has done it in. None of that really has much to do with Bush, unless you wanted an executive order for people to stop being stupid with money.

Bush has done very little well, but as always, the presidents don't have much to do with the economy.