President-elect Obama is Building His Administration With 'Deliberate Haste'
"He does well in teams," says Jerry Kellman, a longtime Obama friend who worked with him years ago as a community organizer in Chicago. "He creates teams well and gets them working together well." Kellman adds that "it goes a long way toward diminishing any sense of isolation," which afflicts many presidents and other political leaders as they make tough, lonely decisions. At the same time, Obama has "enormous discipline" and believes that when a situation is fluid, it's vital for a president to "make sure he has as much knowledge as possible before he jumps in," Kellman says. This would be in contrast to President Bush's emphasis on his instincts and trusting his "gut" in assessing what to do during difficult times.
Some analysts say the pathway to success isn't all that difficult to figure out, and it has little to do with the people Obama names to his government. The three most important reasons voters gave for supporting Obama in the election were his promises to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, cut taxes for the middle class, and expand healthcare coverage, according to a survey by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg for Democracy Corps. Key Obama advisers say these will be his top priorities as president, perhaps with all three concepts wrapped together in a massive economic "rescue package" that he would submit to Congress during his first 100 days. It may be an arbitrary time frame, but Obama knows that his first months in office will be crucial to his long-term success, and he aims to make the most of them.
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Change Now
1. The American car industry can save themselves. If they did not advertisie on t-v. Anyone who wants an car is smart enough to use the internet Or do like we did in the old days go to the car lots. I really think they can dig themselves out of their hole. 2. I am all for building new interstates; make the new ones for the cars/suv/small trucks, and put the 18 wheelers on the old interstates. This would certainly put alot of people to work. 3. I am all for the animal rights, but what about human rights. Wish you could have seen the 21 week old baby that used its tiny hand to grasp the surgeons finger, while he was doing an operation before it birth. Why are animals more important than little unborn or new born babies. I think they are all God's creatures. How can we kill our babies or pets. 4.Lastly, having taught public school for 30+ years. I would love to be your Sec. of Education. I think our public school education is dumbing down our children,wasting tax payers money.I also know how to correct this problem, and how to make kids WANT to be in school to learn something new everyday.Public school kids use to have to learn Latin in elementary and high school.
If they had to work in the heat or cold to build a wall around our boarders, they would beat the teachers to school to learn the lessons that teachers had spend preparing for them all weekend. They would not think of walking around with their pants to their knees, and the crime rate would drop quickly. We need to give kids a love to learn. I do agree that we do have teachers that need to find another job. Teaching is a 24/7 job. The pay is sad, but if you can reach one kid it will put a smile on your face. If you can't smile find another job. I am glad your kids are not in public schools for now. Well those are my comments from Alabama. I hope my thoughts are read.
Time will tell
Didn't the changes, i.e. relaxing, for the credit requirements for people to get a home loan get changed prior to the Bush administration? Wasn't this first done back under Jimmy Carter and then revisited under Bill Clinton? It seems to me that the roots of the "mess" could actually be traced to the 1990's dot com bust as well. And it also seems to me that this happened under both Republican and Democrat dominated Congresses alternately during this same time??? If we are more interested in assigning blame than getting the world's financial house in order, then we should be giving credit, i.e. blame, equally to all who deserve it.
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