{"id":999,"date":"2008-11-16T10:59:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2008-11-16T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T15:59:41","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/16\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting bit of political trivia from Newsmax.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Of the 47 appointees named so far to transition or staff posts, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one member of the 12-person Transition Advisory Board.<\/p>\n

Transition chief John Podesta served as Clinton\u2019s chief of staff from 1998 to 2001.<\/p>\n

Other Clinton-era appointees include former Deputy Secretary of Defense John White, former State Department official Wendy Sherman, and former deputies to National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Defense Secretary William Perry, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Politico.com reports.<\/p>\n

Also on the Obama team are transition adviser Michael Froman, who served as Rubin\u2019s chief of staff, and Christopher Edley, who served Clinton and is married to a former Clinton deputy chief of staff.<\/p>\n

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a senior adviser to Clinton, has been named Obama\u2019s chief of staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting bit of political trivia from Newsmax.com: Of the 47 appointees named so far to transition or staff posts, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one member of the 12-person Transition Advisory Board. Transition chief John Podesta served as Clinton\u2019s chief of staff from 1998 to 2001. Other Clinton-era appointees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[47,57,317,318],"class_list":{"0":"post-999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-2008-elections","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-clinton-administration","10":"tag-transition","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sfpI7-change","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1454,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/daschle-withdraws-nomination\/","url_meta":{"origin":999,"position":0},"title":"Daschle Withdraws Nomination","author":"Jeff","date":"February 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Former Senator Tom Daschle has with withdrawn his name from to be Barack Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services. 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