Reply #109: His complaint seems to be that the economic team are centrists

[Hippo_Tron]

And my point is that so was Roosevelt's economic team. But the fact that they were centrists during the 1910's and 1920's didn't make a dime's worth of difference in the 1930's because everything was different. Democrats have leaned toward the center for the past 28 years because the country bought into Reagan's bullshit and the center was the politically expedient way to go. 2008, as I see it, was a referendum on the past 28 years.

What everybody seems to assume is that because Obama picked Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary that it's going to be Clinton all over again. I'm not living under that assumption. Not because I think Obama is extremely liberal or anything. I am not living under that assumption because it's 2008, not 1998, and not 1988 and the writing on the wall is clearly there that the status quo cannot continue. Obama has seen that writing and he has made that much clear. Just because he opts not to elevate the left to the highest positions of power doesn't mean that he isn't serious about change.