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Obama Picks Foxes to Guard Henhouse

by Robert Scheer

Maybe Ralph Nader was right in predicting that the same Wall Street hustlers would have a lock on our government no matter which major party won the election. I hate to admit it, since it wasn't that long ago that I heatedly challenged Nader in a debate on this very point.

But how else is one to respond to Barack Obama's picking the very folks who helped get us into this financial mess to now lead us out of it? Watching the president-elect's Monday introduction of his economic team, my ...

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Posted by: michael nola
Comment: #1
Wed Dec 3, 2008 6:06 PM

Those of us who wanted real change supported Dennis Kucinich among the Dems.. We are now stuck with Obama who may or may not make the necessary and right changes. I'll condemn him if and when he sells out; until then we can only complain about his choices while waiting for the other shoe to drop. One thing is certain; the days of American superpower are over; the system is corrupt, the economic and foreign policies immoral and unsustainable. Either dramatic change comes about or we collapse under the weight of our own arrogance and overreach and the world will not mourn our passing.

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