How many former JK people are with Obama now?

[ginnyinWI]

I just found out that Susan Rice, JK's foreign policy adviser in '04 is now with Obama. (She was also Bill Clinton's Asst. Sec of State.)

Very reassuring; if Obama can surround himself with people of her calliber, things are going to be okay. Any lack of "experience" can be neutralized if you draw upon and listen to the resources of those who are experts in their fields.

Can anyone add more names? People who were with JK's campaign and are now with Obama? I already know about Marvin :).

[rox63]

1. Maybe Tay can confirm who went where? n/t

[TayTay]

2. Ah, The Obama Campaign has many familiar faces

and folks from 2004. A lot. A very, very lot. :)

[rox63]

3. Did Roger go work for Obama?

Or is he still with JK?

[karynnj]

4. Richard Clarke who I remember praising Kerry

as one of the few people in the 1990s who "got" non-state terrorism is advising Obama. In August, he said he was with Obama, but didn't think he would win.

[Luftmensch067]

5. Not thrilled with his saying JK has an occasional "tin ear"!

But Steve Clemons has this article over at HuffPo talking about Karen Kornbluh, who apparently worked with Senator Kerry on the Commerce Committee:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/who-is-obamas-brain_b_80200.html

[karynnj]

6. Interesting article

I'm not sure how I am reacting to hear that Obama's economics advisor was from the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago is a great liberal school - except for the Economics department that was famous from the days of Milton Friedman as very conservative.

On the Kerry part, he said it was an occasional "tin ear". It also was HIS comment, not hers that Kerry didn't use that - I guess he was too busy articulating a plan for Iraq, his views on terrorism, his views on treatment of veterans, the best healthcare plan, and the most exciting push to deal with alternative fuels and energy. Seems like all the things that the 2008 people are speaking of. Making it easier to juggle things was obviously not a huge issue in either 2004 or 2008.

[Luftmensch067]

7. Yeah, I actually thought Clemons was trying to make some point

But failing with that whole aspect of the story! I had very little idea what he was attempting to say re JK and Kornbluh, but the rest of the post was informative.

[karynnj]

8. Yeah - especially as Kornbluh, who he implied had no vested

interest in Kerry winning, predicted he would. That's the only quote. I know that Kerry actually has spoken of the difficulty of juggling many roles in Senate speeches, including this comment in the NAFTA vote speech in 1993 (before Edwards was political at all):

From the Senate record:
"From 1969 to 1989 average weekly earnings in this country declined from $387 to $335. No wonder then, that millions of women entered the work force, not simply because the opportunity opened for the first time. They had no choice. More and more families needed two incomes to support a family, where one had once been enough.

It began to be insufficient to have two incomes in the family. By 1989 the number of people working at more than one job hit a record high. And then even this was not enough to maintain living standards. Family income growth simply slowed down. Between 1979 and 1989 it grew more slowly than at any period since World War II. In 1989 the median family income was only $1,528 greater than it had been 10 years earlier. In prior decades real family income would increase by that same amount every 22 months. When the recession began in 1989, the average family's inflation-adjusted income fell 4.4 percent, a $1,640 drop, or more than the entire gain from the eighties.

Younger people now make less money at the beginning of their careers, and can expect their incomes to grow more slowly than their parents'. Families headed by persons aged 25 to 34 in 1989 had incomes $1,715 less than their counterparts did 10 years earlier, in 1979. Evidence continues to suggest that persons born after 1945 simply will not achieve the same incomes in middle-age that their parents achieved.

Thus, Mr. President, it is a treadmill world for millions of Americans. They work hard, they spend less time with their families, but their incomes don't go up. The more their incomes stagnate, the more they work. The more they work, the more they leave the kids alone, and the more they need child care. The more they need child care, the more they need to work.

Why are we surprised at the statistics on the hours children spend in front of the television; about illiteracy rates; about teenage crime and pregnancy? All the adults are working and too many kids are raising themselves. "

[JI7]

9. i remember after JK decided he would not run

reading reports about various ones going to different campaigns and Obama seemed to get a lot.

There is also John Norris who helped Kerry and Obama in Iowa.

[kerrygoddess]

10. Not all went with Obama

Ari Melber noted tonight on the HuffPO that HRC benefited in NH from "The Whouley Effect" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/inside-clintons-narrow-c_b_80604.html

And of course Peter Daou is working for HRC, but you all know that.

[JI7]

11. so Whouley did not run her campaign in Iowa ?

[kerrygoddess]

12. I guess he didn't

Perhaps NH seemed more viable to them.