Obama Loves the 90s

What. No Monica?

Yeah jake he didnt like them so much during the primaries wow how things change(sarcastic laugh). I knew he would do this appoint ever ex clinton administration employee he could oh I am sorry every ex clinton person except a real clinton. This is why I voted for Hillary in the primaries if we were going to get these appointees anyway not just vote for the real clinton swhile we are at it. I can’t say I am too upset with his appointments as of now, I just know he lied through his teeth and no matter what he said during the primaries he knows the clinton adminstration was full of talent and did a great job,and all his trash talk on the clinton adminstration was just that talk.

Why take a shot at my half-beard? Why, Jake? Why?

I guess it would have been nice of him to let his supporters know this during the campaign. Here you are America’s Obama supporters: meet the new boss same as the old boss…

Paige – read an intro to economics book. Your prosperity of the 90′s is what you are paying for now. Economic booms and busts are not mutually exclusive. Your – what dramatic term did you use? Promise for the future? LMAO – was an illusion. Crawl out from under the rock in which you live and get with it before posting uneducated and uninformed comments like yours.

What’s the saying…History repeats itself…
Bet Drudge is just pinching himself and Linda Tripp already declared herself.
The 90′s were good for America and hopefully the last of the naughties will improve to some dgree.
Obama is making interesting choices, we shall see how they play out.
Besides the X Files were better than most of the crap on the networks today.
Back to the future … is the theme. Ken Starr what are you doing now, you little turd.

Mr Devil’s Advocate Jake,
Everybody loves the 90s, Obama is not the only one. And, FYI, everybody seems to forget that most of these people were EARLY Obama backers, which means they pledged to implement Obama’s agenda even when Hillary’s was still an option. Where was this outcry when they were clearly working for him during the primaries?
And for those saying they wish Hill had been president after all, actually these are not the people Hillary would have brought along. These are the dissenters who would not have seen the interior of that White house if she had won. Hill would have brought Penn, Ickes, Carville, STEPENO…, the dreadful list goes on.

OBAMA, THE CLINTONITE.
WHY WAS HE BASHIBNG THE CLINTONS?

It seem that everything about the Clinton’s was bad five months ago.

Obama and global warming are the two biggest frauds ever foisted on the united states of america.

The Dems have a deep bench rich in talent that was brought along and nurtured during the 2 Clinton terms. Obama would be foolish not to take advantage of it.

He will make it work. That is what he has promised; that is what he will deliver.
Watch and learn

As the old saying goes: “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
The whole system has been broken for the past eight years. Obama is serious and determined to fix it again. GOOD JOB!

Smashing Pumpkins…yet another Chicago connection. ;-)

It’s okay for him to repeat the 90′s
at least back then the economy was thriving and and were not worried about whether not we were going to have a job.

The problem is that Obama claimed “change,” and he’s not living up to that. He used deception to get elected.
Posted by: tina | Nov 19, 2008 7:12:00 AM
Look on the bright side, at least he isn’t getting people from the Bush administration!

if not from the clinton era…then WHERE? the bush era??? y’all people need to smarten-up
obama needs people that are competent and KNOWS washington, why do the SAME mistake bill clinton done and bring in complete ROOKIES to his cabinet????

Most of these naysayers weren’t even born when Clinton was President or they are GWB fans. I’d like the 90′s back economy-wise.

Maybe that is why Biden is holding off on resigning senate seat. Waiting to be replaced by Kurt Cobain. The 90s rule!!

To Obama, competence is a high value, in contrast to the crony capitalism of the current Administration.
Cronies are cronies….Obama can’t put his own in power, so he using Clinton’s!

oh god,
alan keyes and ralph nader need to start their campaign bids for president,
on the moon.
i wish they would just go away,
thanks ralph for your service to the consumers of this country.
alan keyes? just go away

yeah? JPT where are you?

The same names from the 90′s who brought down the economy, Fantastic! He really IS trying to be the next Jimmy Carter!!!

Jake,
I thought the punditry consensus was that the Obama Admin. was supposed to come in and “hit the ground running”?
Do you expect them to hire people from state governments or private industry to posts in key agencies who would have to spend 2-3 months acclimating themselves to a completely new organization?
Should they bring in political neophytes?
Will no-names instill confidence in the markets and electorate?
Should Obama turn the government over to a bunch of lackeys from Arkansas or Texas with no Washington experience and enjoy how they stumble and bumble along for a few months or a year? Seems like we tried that and what did we get?
The Arkansas crowd ushered in 12 years of GOP Congressional rule.
The Texas crowd created the greatest succession of colossal blunders in our nation’s history. From:
-letting Enron et.al game the electricity markets,
-ignoring memos that read “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S..”,
-Katrina,
-Iraq WMD lies and fiasco,
-complete fiscal mismanagement,
-creating and allowing conditions to send oil prices thru the roof
-appointing and keeping in office every possible incompetant
-driving the economy into the ground
-etc., etc.
I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer people with a proven record and an air of competence. Like those who had a hand in creating economic growth, increasing household income, reducing poverty, lowering unemployment, reducing crime, etc.
You know, like all the stuff that happened in the 90s.
Or, should we call Sarah Palin to see if any of her high school friends from Wasilla are still out of work?
Come to think of it, it could be a real genius move for Obama to put someone with real “main street” experience in drafting wills and filling in quit claim deed templates as our next Attorney General. Hey, if it worked for Sarah, what could go wrong?
I’ll put up a “help wanted” notice on the City of Wasilla’s online job board right now.

Only the Clintons can save the economy. It’s another 400 points today! S.O.S., Please, Please answer the call, Hillary.

Eric Holder, Susan Rice, Creg Craig etc…were all Obama advisers during the primaries, not Clinton’s. The change Obama ran on was also theirs. I hope Susan Rice will be the National Security Adviser.

I think many of you are missing Jake’s point. There is nothing wrong with picking experienced Washington hands. Just as there is nothing wrong with picking people who have lobbied in Washington. It makes perfect sense and both parties do that when they win the White House. BUT the point is, Obama made a big deal of the fact that he was going to be different, that he wanted a change from not only the Bush years but the Clintons as well, that he had no room for lobbyists, that he wanted to bring in fresh faces. When he said it, there were those of us who said it was unrealistic of him to make such claims, that when he got elected, if he did, he would need to change his tune. He keeps doing that– saying one thing to get elected and doing something else in order to govern effectively. maybe some of us just wish he’d admit that he was mistaken in the past and that he is deliberately moving in a different direction. It is not what he’s doing now that is the problem, it’s what he said in the past that contradicts what he is doing now.

Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom, and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past.
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.
As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning.

Yeah. the 90′s were awesome. Hopefully these retreads will enjoy another perfect storm like we had with the fall of communism, globalization, a reduction in labor costs, the apogee of the information revolution and the resultant productivity gains brought about by huge advances in supply chain management.