Minority Advocates Watching Obama

[AmyCamus]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802456.html?nav=rss_email/components

"Groups that are concerned with racial and gender diversity are certainly wise to keep the pressure on," said Paul C. Light, a professor of public policy at New York University. But he said questions of diversity among Obama's closest confidants should go beyond those characteristics to include their worldview, their educational background, their work history and their ideological allegiances.

On those scores, it is less clear that Obama is building a diverse team. The individuals who are known are experienced politicians who would be familiar to anyone studying administrations of the past. None represents the kind of radical break from the government as usual that some of Obama's supporters expected.

"This is not a team of rivals as much as it is a team of experienced Washington insiders," Light said

[bemildred]

1. My God! He's not hiring a bunch of outsider neophytes!

It's almost like he wants to DO something.

[AmyCamus]

2. He's embracing the politics of the past, and the drama of the past.

He said what he had to do to get elected. Like you, I bought it. Unlike you, I'm not buying it now.

[bemildred]

3. Hi Amy.

I'm not buying anything, I'm just not willing to come to any conclusions yet.

[ilrslr3]

4. Hello Amy

please remember Change comes from Obama, Policies Change comes from Obama give him a chance, our Country is in a DISASTER economically and he needed to surround himself with experience right now. Does not mean he is not about CHANGE! Give him a chance, if he had a lot of neophytes in the Treasury Department we American would be scared, Wall Street would be scared.

[bemildred]

5. If he is not about change, he will fail, fail soon, fail often.

There won't be any ambiguity about it.

[tonycinla]

6. Scared?

Actually if I am not mistaken Main Street and Wall Street and everybody in between is scared.