Obama: Change comes from me
CHICAGO -- In response to criticism that he is departing from his promise to bring change to Washington because several members of his economic team were Beltway insiders, Barack Obama said today that his team would combine experience with fresh thinking and his own vision for change.
"Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost," he told reporters at his third press conference in as many days. "It comes from me. That's my job, is to provide a vision in terms of where we are going, and to make sure, then, that my team is implementing."
Link (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/26/1689626.aspx)
Massive egos notwithstanding, it's my bet that they'll all line up against the wall for their daily flogging - Gates being a notable exception.
and there is no such thing as an "office of the president-elect"
(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/112408_obama_geithner.jpg)
although it is at less presumptuous than his last foray into non existent signage :
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b275/ArmandV/Obama27s20great20seal20small.jpg)
Is it just me, or does the word "dork" come to mind every time I hear something that Hussien has done or said?
and there is no such thing as an "office of the president-elect"
(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/112408_obama_geithner.jpg)
although it is at less presumptuous than his last foray into non existent signage :
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b275/ArmandV/Obama27s20great20seal20small.jpg)
General Services Administration certification
The Presidential Transition Act of 1963[1] authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration to certify, even before the December vote of the Electoral College, the apparent winner of the November general election as the President-elect for the purposes of receiving federal transition funding, office space and communications services prior to the beginning of the new administration on January 20.[2]
also: http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?contentType=GSA_BASIC&contentId=24780
and: http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?contentType=GSA_BASIC&contentId=24781
I am conversant with the transition act; it was a mechanism to fund the transition, but is beside the point. is there some consitutional amendment or federal provision that I am unaware of that awards the man that won the presidential election formal authority over the central government before he is inaugurated?
"It comes from me. That's my job, is to provide a vision in terms of where we are going, and to make sure, then, that my team is implementing."
Is it just me, or does the word "dork" come to mind every time I hear something that Hussien has done or said?
Massive egos notwithstanding, it's my bet that they'll all line up against the wall for their daily flogging - Gates being a notable exception.
He's keeping Gates on so he won't have to sully a Democrat appointee's record with the neutering of the Defense Department.