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No Obama Cabinet Appointments This Week
It turns out that there won't be any Obama cabinet appointments announced this week.
"No Cabinet announcements this week," Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter told Reuters.
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Ok.
I was saying below that I read this weekend how treacherous the transition period is.
The thing that I love is that Obama is so careful. I don't think he's cautious - I think he's bold, but he's careful and after 8 years of criminal carelessness, I really am thrilled.
November 10, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Breaking News!!!
The polls will not show any tightening this week!
Stay tuned... Film at 11!
November 10, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Damn this system - it says two comments but mine didn't post.
Ok - no cabinet appointments. I guess that means we're back to talking about all Lieberman all the time.
;)
November 10, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
This bitch of a system - I loaded this page 6 times and decided my comment was lost and I post another and the first shows up.
Loves to keep us on our toes.
November 10, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
He is handling this correctly. He should beef up his White House staff and THEN announce his cabinet positions.
November 10, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bush is holding his big G20 Economic Summit this Friday and it was believed by some that Obama would hold off on naming a Treasury Secretary as to not step on any toes or send mixed messages at this time.
Ambinder is reporting that there will be further staff announcements, however...
November 10, 2008 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey did you see this, Jonze:
LOL!!!!
November 10, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did Dubya offer that hand sanitizer before or after they shook hands? It makes a big difference in the message it sends, ya know!
Of course, that was before Joe Biden certified Obama as being clean.
Ironically, the danger to Dubya from Obama is likely much less than if he had shaken hands with Hillary!
November 10, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is flying American to DC? No private plane...
November 10, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
What happened to his campaign plane?
November 10, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Guess it's been returned.
Those things cost more money than I would have believed existed to operate.
November 10, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he sold it on eBay. ; )
November 10, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Donating it to charity, like Sarah's clothes?
November 10, 2008 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
What better way to prove he's just one of us?
November 10, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT, but well worth the read. Amazing.
http://crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/want-win-war-afghanistan-forget-guns-t
November 10, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey that is a cool article.
They use pomegranate juice heavily in middle eastern cooking - that sounds like a winner. Plus it has gotten really hot over here - it's everywhere.
The new super-juice.
Of course, I'm rather a fan of opium; hate to see all those fields converted to legal uses -
LOL!
November 10, 2008 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good. Now he can turn to more pressing matters, like picking out that puppy.
November 10, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mutt...not puppy. Get your pedigrees straight!
November 10, 2008 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is possible to be both a mutt and a puppy. Even mutts are young at some point. :-)
November 10, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, some serious work! Kinda think cleaning up the joint for day one is the priority. What? Long remember Hecka-of-job Brownie! Will stop as the list includes all parts of the federal government.
November 10, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I had a great snowball fight with my roofer, Charlie Sandoval. He came over to secure some shit cause he isn't finished and we had a snowball fight. LOL! It's great snowball snow...
November 10, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT, but an interesting story about how far Obama has come in the last few years:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/11/07/before-he-was-president-mistaken-for-a-waiter-a-2003-obama-meeting/
November 10, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
O for god's sake: a waiter - and in '04, Bush offered President Obama hand sanitizer when they met.
Everybody has consistently underestimated our new president. Even the left has underestimated him.
This is going to be fun.
November 10, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you think about it, it's all been working to his advantage. Makes me wonder if foreign heads-of-states will make the same underestimating error so Pres. Obama can take full advantage of their foolishness! Think Putin, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il, al-Malik, Karzai just to name a few.
November 10, 2008 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you think about it, it's all been working to his advantage. Makes me wonder if foreign heads-of-states will make the same underestimating error so Pres. Obama can take full advantage of their foolishness! Think Putin, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il, al-Malik, Karzai just to name a few.
November 10, 2008 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't Angela Merkel once mistake George W Bush for a masseur?
November 10, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
No cabinet announcements? How about countertops?
November 10, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
No we want to know about the puppy and about Michelle's inauguration gown.
Dammit -
November 10, 2008 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rim-shot!
November 10, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's all about the drapes. A lot measuring to do.
November 10, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everyone knows you first need a firm foundation to build upon. So what will it be...wood or Formica tiling?
November 10, 2008 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, *this* news will make Bob Schieffer's head explode. He was pissed yesterday when Rahm Emmanuel went on Faced the Ration and "didn't make any news." My wife and I laughed our asses off. ("Dammit, we're not getting what we want! We want access!")
The other interesting thing is how all the villagers seem to be pushing Obama's spokespeople to say there just might be a wee, little income tax break for the rich. "C'mon, times are tough. Don't you think you should give upper-income AMERICANS a tax break, too?" Stephanopoulos was almost apoplectic.
Umm...no, George, not so much.
November 10, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is George making that much money that he's that worried?
If he's making that much he ought to be able to afford to pay a tax lawyer to keep from paying more in taxes. Make up your mind, George - your money can go back into the society that allows you to make money for running your mouth or you can line a lawyer's pockets.
Up to you.
November 10, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pretend you're on a fishing expedition. You know the fish are the cause it's a lake...no place else to go...but you aren't catching any fish. Perhaps you're using the wrong bait?
November 10, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember Kerry's comment in the second debate in '04?
"Only three people in this room make too much for my tax break: me, the president, and I'm sorry, Charlie (Gibson), but probably you, too."
Hire an attorney, Stephie.
(Schieffer, BTW, grilled Emmanuel on the same question. Rahm led them both on a wild goose chase that ended in repeating Obama's original statement about who his tax breaks would be for. That's when Schieffer started to get red in the face. Funny stuff.)
November 10, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
God I am loving me some Rahm Emanuel. LOL!!!!!
November 10, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. There's a reason our guy picked him...
November 10, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take Karl Rove, turn him inside out and sound like you get a Rahm Emanuel. I would caution him to avoid getting anywhere near Rove...opposites attract and the end result is both their annihilation...the rules of Mother Nature must be followed.
November 10, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya mean like James Carville and Mary Matalin?
November 10, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a slow decaying orbital phenomenon.
November 10, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink