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I've not noticed anything particularly remarkable nor particularly alarming about any of Obama's appointments, thus far.
After the last 8 years I consider that a good thing.
What I sense here is a need for something to be outraged about. Post-election deflation. Anticlimax.
But this is what you get when a centrist moves into the White House - as much as folks wanted to believe that Obama was a 'raging liberal,' he's not. He's a moderate and he will be a moderate president.
I understand the desire now, after the plethora of material for outrage handed out by the Bush Administration, for the conservatives to have (at least) its fair share of the adrenaline rush that comes from watching in horror while the 'other side's' guy confirms your worst fears, but I really don't think you're going to get it from this administration.
And you want to know why I know this? Because this country would never elect a 'real' liberal president. At least you can take comfort in the fact that it will, indeed, elect a really 'real' conservative one.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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