Obama's Cabinet To Date

Journaling 3 (December 7, 2008)

There’s been an awful lot of talk about Barack Obama’s selections to his various cabinet posts. I really don’t know a great deal about the people he has chosen with the notable exception of Hilary Clinton. What is it with the Clintons (Bill and Hilary) that is so fascinating to the press? I’ve never seen two people who attract so much negative press for being highly skilled and intelligent. It is almost as if they are so clearly superior to most everyone around them that the press is beside itself with jealousy and God only knows what other types of paranoia.

I’m almost certain that President-elect Obama and his seemingly very bright cabinet will also come under attack from the mainstream media (MSM) as well. Perhaps the MSM became very comfortable (too comfortable) covering that great white dope – George W. Bush. A reporter, I’m sure, could never feel inferior to a man of Bush’s limited abilities in just about anything. I may be wrong, but somehow I doubt it. Bush has lowered the bar so dramatically that it would be nigh impossible for anyone, especially himself, to clear it with relative ease. Obama, on the other hand, has already begun to raise the bar of accountability higher than Bush ever had it in his eight years as president.

The 800-pound gorilla in all of this transition talk from the hapless, incompetent Bush to the energizing and inspiring Obama is the Republican Party, a party of such unbelievably stupid, shallow, hate-mongering fools, that any sentient human being would be repulsed by its juvenile behaviour and ridiculuously asinine approach to governance. And yet, for reasons known only to millions of benighted Americans and an equally dull and compliant press corp, the Republican Party still to this day wields untoward power and influence on the American political scene. For a clear example of this see Sarah Palin, easily the most visible and outspoken remnant of a party that once upon a time had some real sense of purpose and a real goal to help America go forward. This definitely no longer is the case. Palin and others of her ilk have helped to transform the party into a mere shadow of its former self and will leave it floundering in the wilderness for generations to come (one can only wish).