RadioRaheem84
5th April 2010, 19:01
....which makes me question the integrity of the Obama administration, (as if had any in the first place).
I wish the Obama administration just wouldn't do stuff like giving people positions in the White House because they're famous, trendy or have recognition amongst a small group in academia.
It isn't just Penn, it's Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Rham Emanuel, etc. People who have some really questionable backgrounds but are hot people in the social, financial and academic circuits of DC and Wall Street.
The Obama administration is the most trendy administration I have ever seen, simply choosing people that are really, really connected in DC and Wall Street rather than people who've been involved in real research and have dealt with public policy for years. Some who even fundamentally support the administration but get bypassed for the cream of the crop of the latest trendy academic pop junk that's featured in Time or Newsweek. This administration likes pedigree and prestige. It's not really progressive.
The one thing that I at least liked about the horrible Bush administration is that they didn't care if a person came from the Ivy League or not, as long as they understood the agenda and were willing to promote it. Their administration came from all sorts of different schools and backgrounds. The Obama administration seems more like an Ivy and top school club full of wonks that do not so much care about actually helping people as much as beating the right wing.
I wish the Obama administration just wouldn't do stuff like giving people positions in the White House because they're famous, trendy or have recognition amongst a small group in academia.
It isn't just Penn, it's Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Rham Emanuel, etc. People who have some really questionable backgrounds but are hot people in the social, financial and academic circuits of DC and Wall Street.
The Obama administration is the most trendy administration I have ever seen, simply choosing people that are really, really connected in DC and Wall Street rather than people who've been involved in real research and have dealt with public policy for years. Some who even fundamentally support the administration but get bypassed for the cream of the crop of the latest trendy academic pop junk that's featured in Time or Newsweek. This administration likes pedigree and prestige. It's not really progressive.
The one thing that I at least liked about the horrible Bush administration is that they didn't care if a person came from the Ivy League or not, as long as they understood the agenda and were willing to promote it. Their administration came from all sorts of different schools and backgrounds. The Obama administration seems more like an Ivy and top school club full of wonks that do not so much care about actually helping people as much as beating the right wing.