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Washington Whispers by Paul Bedard

What President-elect Barack Obama Wants in a Cabinet

November 10, 2008 03:39 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

President-elect Obama is moving fast to name his financial and national security teams. Here are a couple of things to look for: On the Treasury side, watch the Democrat to form a full team to deal with the Wall Street bailout. Current Treasury officials say they want to come up with a final plan that both sides can agree on. Obama wants aides who've worked on it with the Bush team. In national security, look for Obama to ask Pentagon boss Bob Gates and CIA Director Mike Hayden to stay around for a while. Bush's treat: transition office space in most major agencies.

Tags: Barack Obama | Robert Gates | Michael Hayden | Obama transition

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proper propaganda for morale boosts

I call an editor of a newspaper and discuss the need to place the economy as a secondary issue and to begin to boost morale, and what does the newspaper print? 20,000 jobs will be lost in utah next year. These jobs are not lost yet and if measures to job continuance could happen no losses might happen! The panic this article has already spawnd is massive and devistating to morale and hireability to those who live under that prediction. No ideas can come as to contributionism, putting money aside for that rainy day, non profit has these protections and in weber county utah allone if all the non profit organizations added all the tax free moneys together there is 500000 short of 3 billion dollars. Not to even count the available food and supplies, although none provide one with work, its all hand outs with no true reward or contributions of talent for goods provided. My frustration with the inefficiency for people to organize being isolated in their own grasp of what reality is having all the propoganda fed into their brains as what one must do. I used to feel as though the world was flying by me. I felt I was being left behind. As I grew, matured, and analyzed all that was going by, I realized I was moving forward and actually leaving all behind, and they are moving quickly to their own deluge. I fear only this, as I will still be moving forward the ground is going to be flowing with hands raized for me to be the provider and I may not have the answer to solve the plague which I have analyzed in it actuallity and to read 20,0000 job loss, these people are now in a world where millions isnt even a large number. It has to be hundreds of billions to raize a head as to a number to evaluate. This is just indecent and intolerable. Then for the people to read this then sit and complain about someone elses problem because one is not out of bed at 8 when another got up at 6, or how so and so is bumming quarters while another is collecting welfare. The morale is destroyed. I praize you Obama for not false promises. That is not a duty but to veto or accept. You did things. You did not deluge your opponet to destroy morale. You have promise, this great nation has promise and we must organize and promote peabably assembly which we as a nation needs so definately. We must gather together as one. Stoically create an one nation organization in contributism to add to capitalism and socialism. It creates a building which is continuosly in the prossess of building to check and ballance the economic systems to the needs of the ambitious and the provider. It continuously has a savings to be prepared. Not a borower or a begger be. But a reliance to always provide to needs to be offered for peoples contributions of their talents also so its not a free hand out to speculate of others abuses. Happiness must be a right again an inailiable right. Proper propoganda for morare boost on how we as a people can greet each other daily with pride and res

President elect Obama

He is the verb of the human spirit. What is a verb? It is action. Given the opportunity, I see that our newly elected president will get things done, he is for all people. He represents all people and he is aquainted with the human conditions here in America and around the world. He has great compassion as well as great strength.

America is its own great divide. What makes this so terrible is that fact that the divide has no value, no morals and is beyond common sense. How can you hate a person or a peole because of the color of their skin unless you hate yourself for who you are? You have to be disgusted with yourself because hate is like love, you can not give love unless you love yourself first.

So give President elect Obama a chance and not speculate on what he will or can or cannot do.

In my own words.

Thank you

EM Weinberg-Mask

Military

Mr.Obama (President)

I am a retired Navy person after 27 years and two tours of Nam.Thank God and prase the Lord you are because we need someone that cares and there is a lot of them that need it.Not much on the computer but I have some great Ideas if you would like to hear them please when you have time let me know and i would love to put them down for you Sir. I know you do not have much time for this now when you have the chance you or one of your personal drop me a line God bless you Sir

Mike Evans

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