Obama's (dis)appointments

Naomi Klein from yesterday's democracy now:

"..what we can expect from Summers and Geithner, I think it's clear that there's going to be a major departure from the idea logy that the government can't do anything...we're going to see a lot of investments in infrastructure...but the key issue and this is where I think we want to concentrate our energies because...we all want to be optimistic, but I think part of what got us into this situation where we've seen these very disappointing appointments has been that we have not been honest about the legacy of the Clinton years. So much mis-information has been spread during the election campaign because it was a nice message to present the '90s as these wonder years in contrast to the Bush years, and that is exactly the situation when you have a Summers [Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton, and recently picked by Obama to head the National Economic Council] going down as some sort of wise man instead of going down with Allen Greenspan."


Also check out Jeremey Scahill's piece on Alternet highlighting the 'liberal hawks' behind Obama's foreign policy team.