Do you still think Obama's cabinet appointments were great ?

[changemonger]

Some of us have endured beeing called trolls or idiots for criticizing Obama's nomination of same old Washington politicians in key positions or we were told to just trust Obama's team, since they're on top of everything. As it now seems, our scepticism was more than justified. Some thought keeping Gates at Defense was a great idea, now we're learning that Obama's 2010 "defense" budget will be just a ludicrously high as the Bush administration's one. Troops level will be increased in Afghanistan, in a war without end and quite frankly without purpose. As we found out in Tom Daschle's case, most of this people are actually connected to the very groups and organisations they're supposed to "fight", if they're serious about achieving real change. What was the case for Daschle is certainly the case for Vilsack with i.e Monsanto, Geithner and Summers with the banks and so on. Conflict of interest was the most predictable obstacle to the change the Obama administration knew it won't be able to deliver, that's if they really are on top of everything.