Reply #18: Understand...

[KoKo]

Bill Daley is a bit much to choke down. Some of us were hoping for new faces and new input. Maybe some ordinary people from the "outside" of DC, Machine Politics and Wall Street. Some people who have a good track record in Dem State Politics to be brought in. And, some of us even hoped that one of the 50 Dem Leaning Economists who wanted real Banking Reform might have a chance to be key in the Obama White House. It's not that Obama doesn't have Clinton Economists on his team, who would be considered Democrats...but where is the new blood? Where are the economists who didn't support the deregulation that brought the financial meltdown and helped craft legislation that sent our jobs overseas because they thought it was "good for the economy."

We thought there would be a different direction from this President, particularly after the global meltdown where so many ordinary people have been brought into such hard times. I think as Democrats who have donated and voted and been active, that we have a right to voice some disapproval. And, a right to hope that we will be heard.