Obama says expect change? I don't see it Options

[Tung]

I don't know man. The people he's choosing for his cabinet is very questionable. I would like to focus on how and why he is picking his cabinet, on the one hand, from different constituencies but, on the other, how he is tapping primarily Clintonites who were responsible for deregulation and the economic catastrophe now upon us.

I don't know if you guys been reading up on what's going on, but I just feel Obama's economic policies and "plan" is going to backfire, and I really expect an economic catastrophe in 2009. There's already a projected 300,000+ jobs being laid off, in just California alone I believe. I was also reading up on this study that they did on Black Friday. They interview alot of people, and most of them said Black Friday was the first time they went shopping in the whole month of November. They furthermore said, they won't be shopping for a while, and already got their Christmas shopping done. What does that mean? Economy will suffer greatly this month, than in the past years. This means business won't be good. =\

Anyways, I'm questioning Obama's choices for his cabinet.

[brooklyneast05]

well i guess it's going to be all how you define change. if you compare obama's picks vs. bush's administration then it's change. i'm ok with his picks to be honest and i'm glad he's picking with a lot of diversity. polls supposedly show the majority of people have favorable opinions of his picks so far, specifically clinton and gates. there was some backlash to him putting on richardson and i was watching people ask if that was a consultation prize for the hispanic community which, eh, i can see them feeling that sort of considering they were probably expecting secretary of state or something considering his record.

i'm pretty sure it can be argued, and bill has, whether his deregulation caused the current problems. i'm doubtful.


regardless, it's hard to balance change with the need for people who know what they are doing though. change in it's purest form is...impractical, at least in a lot of these jobs we're talking about here.