by Mark Silva
If it feels like 1993, Washington's Al Kamen suggests, that's because it looks like it in the nation's capital.
"Fully 42 percent of Team Obama's picks for Senate-confirmed positions so far worked in the Clinton administration,'' Kamen reports for the Washington Post.
"And if they appear to come from elite, private schools, well, they do. In fact, about one-fourth of those named so far either attended or taught at Harvard, to name just one esteemed institution. On another front, men are outnumbering women by more than 2 to 1 in the top jobs. ''
With help from the Senate and some cooperation from Republicans as well, the administration finished last week with 58 confirmed appointees in Cabinet and sub-Cabinet posts, he notes, nearly matching Ronald Reagan's starting record.
(Obama, a Harvard Law graduate, once taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, as pictured above in an Obama campaign file photo.)
Comments
"And if they appear to come from elite, private schools, well, they do"
It's about freaking time! The last eight years of the dumber than a bag of rocks Bush and all of the Pat Robertson University minions that he hired almost completely destroyed this country.
Posted by: agent orange | April 6, 2009 4:50 PM
The Harvard connection is not the problem
Harvard has been around since 1636 and is functionally equiv to Oxford and Cambridge.
In England you'll find a disproportionate number in govt. are products of Oxford or Cambridge.
It is the Clinton connection that is troublesome, particularly where, as in the case of Summers, they've been taking money from entities they are supposed to be regulating, like Goldman Sachs.
Summers is a special case because he was in fact fired by the Harvard faculty. He's sort of the Richard Nixon of Harvard Presidents.
Posted by: ornery | April 6, 2009 6:52 PM
Wonder why BO doesn't get a lot of help from gov't run schools?
Posted by: Terry | April 6, 2009 7:01 PM
I find that the notion of a Marxist teaching a class on Constitional Law rather bizarre.
I wonder how many were infected with his view on Constitutional Law.
Posted by: Rob | April 6, 2009 8:59 PM
Imagine that, a Marxist teaching a class on Constitional Law.
I wonder how many were infected with his view on Constitutional Law.
Posted by: Rob | April 6, 2009 9:00 PM
Better Harvard than Liberty University.
Posted by: Doxy | April 6, 2009 11:14 PM
"On another front, men are outnumbering women by more than 2 to 1 in the top jobs.''
Gee, that's a shocker. That's ok. Boys are smarter than girls, anyway - we all know that, Barry. No rationalizations from the Obama people? Flo? Bill R.? Rupert? Buehller? I'll give the Swamp credit for at least mentioning this little nugget. It seems to have escaped noticed in the rest of the mainstream media. Next time your wife, daughter, sister, girlfriend gets turned down for the promotion, gets beat out for that job, continues to get less money for the same work, just save your indignation - you pathetic progressive in name only scumbags.
Posted by: Bemused | April 7, 2009 7:02 AM
How many promises has the puppet Obama broken?
No Washington insiders or lobbyists in his Administration. It's all insiders and former Washington Sacred Cows.
Ending the war in Iraq - not yet
Transparency - where did the Stimulus money actually go?
Lies and the liars who tell them - the greatest Al Jolsen of all time - bring out the 'black' president who markets change and hope - sell the financial fear as opposed to the prior puppet who sold the terror fear.
It is time to question the system - abolish the Fed - demand transparency - these people work for US!!
Posted by: karl | April 7, 2009 10:24 AM