Biden picks former Gore aide as chief of staff

[bijou]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Vice President-elect Joe Biden has picked former Al Gore aide Ron Klain to be his chief of staff, a Democratic official said on Thursday.

Klain is the latest ex-Clinton administration official selected for a high-profile job in the coming Barack Obama presidency.

A Washington lawyer, Klain was chief of staff and a counselor to Gore when the Nobel Peace Prize winner was vice president to President Bill Clinton.

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[franksolich]

You know, this looks mighty suspicious.

I thought the Big Zero would be picking strictly from his own pals.

But it seems many, if not most, of these people are.....Clinton pals.

Suppose there's something behind that?

[Wretched Excess]

he headed up Team Gore in Florida during the 2000 recount, and gained some small level of celebrity from the HBO movie, Recount.

[miskie]

You know, this looks mighty suspicious.

I thought the Big Zero would be picking strictly from his own pals.

But it seems many, if not most, of these people are.....Clinton pals.

Suppose there's something behind that?

Obama knows he is out of his league - He isn't stupid. So, he has gone back to the last Democrat team to get a leg up.

When one is a used car salesman, one expects to sell the car and never see it again. When one is the owner of the sales lot, those used car owners come to you for service and maintenance.

Obama went straight from selling to a state of responsibility for his offerings, without climbing through management ranks.

[Vagabond]

Simple, the Democrat party looks strong, but it is just as badly fractured as ever.  There is no real core just a bunch of self-interested groups who will attack each other like jackals when they aren't attacking an external threat.  They were unified against a external threat in the Republican party, and they benefited because the economy took a hit.

Now, they are without and external threat as they see it.  Which means they will turn on each other in a few months.