Interesting.

With current Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Mr. Bernanke, Mr. Geithner, as chief of the Federal Reserve Bank in the city that is headquarters to the financial industry, has been part of a troika that has struggled this year to contain the credit crisis.

I'm surprised, too, that peoples heads are not exploding further since Geithner and Summers both worked for the Clinton administration. It appears many Obama supporters really wanted to avoid all things Clinton.

Not going to happen, I guess.
(Which is obviously fine with me.)

It's all a guessing game, no, actually a confidence game.

Will the stock market crash when Obama appoints HRC as Sec of State? Just kidding. I'm pretty sure financiers don't care who is selected for Sec of State.

remember that summers was forced to resign from harvard over his resistance to a living wage for campus workers (students occupied the administration building) and gender-related slurs.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=509520

more details on larry summers' tenure at harvard and his forced resignation.

I'm surprised, too, that peoples heads are not exploding further since Geithner and Summers both worked for the Clinton administration. It appears many Obama supporters really wanted to avoid all things Clinton.

I don't know why anyone would have expected for his administration to not have Clintonians in it. Where did they think he was going to find experienced Democrats? I'm sure there are a few survivors from the Carter administration still available, but I'd imagine that the ones with experience in the Johnson and Kennedy administrations are getting pretty thin on the ground.

And besides, incorporating part of the Bill Clinton administration into your framework can't be nearly as bad for the country as incorporating parts of the Richard Nixon administration as been. Not that anyone cared much when the last three Republican presidents seemed to reach out to the ghosts and plumbers of Watergate to help them run the country. I mean, the last 8 years under Bush/Cheney/Ghost of Nixon have been swell, haven't they?

I guess it gives people something to complain about. I suppose they expected he'd be picking the cabinet from his Senate office staff.

I think those who voted for Obama thinking he was a far-left radical will be the ones most disappointed in his first term. Obama will very likely run an administration that is quite centrist. The best clues for how he would serve as an administrator were never found in his Senate career, they were found in his experience as president of the Harvard Law Review. He will be more like Bill Clinton in his ability to work and compromise with the GOP. This is not a bad thing.

Larry Summers: Larry Summers was forced out over the sexist comments. The living wage initiative had nothing to do with it and was a side circus. Universities are notoriously exploitative of their workers in terms of wage at every pay level other than highest management and athletics. See UT. Why hasn't Petersen been forced out at UT? Why hasn't UT's Living Wage movement occupied the administration's office. Note the source of that article and that what a world it would be if UT actually had an independent college newspaper. Anyhow, Larry Summers is an asshole. Being an asshole doesn't disqualify one for a job.

Clintonians: Yeah, it's disturbing, but they are a hell of a sight compared to the den of scum and villains that you are up against right now. I am sure that Wall Street is shrieking over the Geithner pick.

True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite. -- Ivor Cutler

I don't know why exactly, I just sort of had it in my head he'd put Robert Atkinson in that post.

I figure a few weeks of working around HRC and Summers will figure out that women are not intellectual inferiors.

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