Throughout his election campaign last year and this, President-elect Barack Obama promised to make US politics return to the bipartisan ethos. If 
his selection of people to fill the key cabinet posts is anything to go by, he has already scored here. From Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, to Economic Policy Advisor Lawrence Summers, to likely Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and to New York Federal Reserve's Timothy Geithner as the new Treasury Secretary and Commerce Secretary Bill Richardson; all are veteran Washington hands and belong to different ideologies altogether.
While Geithner has lent a hand to direct efforts to soothe financial markets and stressed that banks vital to the worldwide financial scheme should function under an integrated regulatory scaffold, Clinton has a comprehensive profile both as a political person in charge in her own right, and as the wife of a former US President. Her appointment could help Obama mend the only chink in his armour – foreign policy. The passionate and plainspeaking Lawrence Summers has previously served as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton regime and is pegged by both Republicans and Democrats as the best hand to deal with the current crisis. Bill Richardson’s potential appointment as Secretary of Commerce will not only bring the much needed experience in that department, but will also inject confidence in the Hispanic community after disillusionments of the Bush era. The appointment of Tom Daschle as Secretary Of Health And Human Services is a tactical move to make the Left fringe of his party happy.....Continue
his selection of people to fill the key cabinet posts is anything to go by, he has already scored here. From Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, to Economic Policy Advisor Lawrence Summers, to likely Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and to New York Federal Reserve's Timothy Geithner as the new Treasury Secretary and Commerce Secretary Bill Richardson; all are veteran Washington hands and belong to different ideologies altogether.While Geithner has lent a hand to direct efforts to soothe financial markets and stressed that banks vital to the worldwide financial scheme should function under an integrated regulatory scaffold, Clinton has a comprehensive profile both as a political person in charge in her own right, and as the wife of a former US President. Her appointment could help Obama mend the only chink in his armour – foreign policy. The passionate and plainspeaking Lawrence Summers has previously served as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton regime and is pegged by both Republicans and Democrats as the best hand to deal with the current crisis. Bill Richardson’s potential appointment as Secretary of Commerce will not only bring the much needed experience in that department, but will also inject confidence in the Hispanic community after disillusionments of the Bush era. The appointment of Tom Daschle as Secretary Of Health And Human Services is a tactical move to make the Left fringe of his party happy.....Continue
