Obama: Change or Changling?

As more and more media attention and announcements are being reported in the mainstream media with respect to our new President-Elect Barack Obama's cabinet members, it has appeared to me that Mr. Obama's campaign persona calls into question rather than as an instrument for change, he is instead nothing more than a Changling. Quite a few of his political appointments have been more than surprising, to say the least, and nothing more than reruns of the Clinton Administration and paybacks for political support during his campaign apparently. Cases in point:

Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State: Hardly a "Miss Congeniality," for a man who has espoused diplomacy as his preferred method of dealing with rogue nations, and ending non-defensive wars. His selection of pro-Israel backer Bill and Hillary as Secretary of State ("I'd walk a mile on my knees for Israel") who has consistently voted for funding and refunding the War in Iraq and also voted to name Iran and "enemy of the state" (of Israel, I guess) calls not only his judgment, but his sanity into question. I do not believe diplomacy has ever been a hallmark of Senator Clinton's arsenal with respect to foreign relations, but as with her husband, military interventionism. This is the supposedly anti-war Obama's choice for Secretary of State?

Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury: The rooster guarding the chicken coop. A clear choice of selecting someone with financial discretion the likes of which now, due to that horrendous 700 billion bailout bill giving the Treasury Department powers it was never intended to have absent Congressional approval, is more akin to letting the rooster guard the chickenhouse. Mr.Geithner is the former head of the New York Federal Reserve, and an avowed interventionist - meaning, he supports huge bailouts of key industries such as that corporate welfare bailout of AIG and now Citigroup, it appears. Not just key U.S. industries, mind you, but international industries operating here in the U.S. American citizens paying for the losses of the global economy is just as similar and just as devastating as America intervening in other countries militarily when there is no direct threat to the U.S. or it's citizenry. American citizens are paying the world debts now, and world defense and facing homelessness, job loss, and personal bankruptcies the likes of which have never beens seen before, not since the Depression. During the Depression, the Federal Reserve failed to bailout the banks and stock market; however, at that time the country was not at war and World War II had yet to begin. This time, we are in a massive debt because of an unconstitutionally expanded war, and the Federal Reserve and it's Congressional and Executive Office lackeys are now putting this country even further in debt, so the choice of the President of the New York Fed to oversee a 700 billion bailout outside the oversight of Congress and public scrutiny as would be the case with any bankruptcy action makes me believe that Mr. Obama's selection is merely a political move, and definitely not in the best interest of those to whom he pledged change - the lower and middle classes, most of whom are struggling to pay the rent, much less invest in the stock market. Proof that this is a gain for corporate America once again - the stock market had it's largest increase in years, over 500 points, after the announcement that "one of their own" would be doling out the booty.

Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security - The Governor of the state which, due to the lack of border security, has the highest automobile, identity and personal property crime rates in the nation is to be knighted as the protector of the American borders and domestic security. Surely, you jest. Ms. Napolitano has been Arizona's Governor for over six years, and even through two of the pilots from 9/11 trained at local flight schools, and one lived in Tucson for over two years, has been a vocal and vehement supporter of illegal immigrant amnesty and open borders throughout her term as Governor, for her career most of all. Sacrificing her fellow Arizonans lives and property takes a back seat to power lunches with the Governor of Sonora, and other international trips at the Arizona taxpayer's expense to Canada, Great Britain and Iraq, just to name a few. Meanwhile, her greatest achievement has been to station most of law enforcement outside the local bars and restaurants in order to catch the social drinkers, and recreate 1984 in her support for statewide speed cameras - all in order for her to balance Arizona's budget at the Arizona citizens expense, so much so that Arizona also is one of those states facing massive foreclosures due to the increases in property taxes, homeowner's and automobile insurance, and the outsourcing of Arizona jobs which Ms. Napolitano's agendas have created. Not to mention criminalizing 2/3's the population with those social drinking laws, so that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's department continues to receive federal tax monies for his expanding "tent city" jails.

I won't even go into Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico now as Secretary of Commerce.

Obama's "Change," seems more akin to now becoming a "changling" back into selecting his nominees purely for political party or payback reasons. Not change at all, but politics as usual, while igniting the populace with his campaign promises and political rhetoric no different than any of his predecessors in recent history. CNN, MSNBC and even FOX have done a wonderful job of promoting these candidates marketed personas skewed toward the political agendas of their station ownership, without delving into the marketing hype itself in much detail, rather those inane trivialities and gossip sessions for ratings.

Since both Arizona and Illinois were without adequate representation while both of these Senators were creating their Houdini like images for the American public for the last two years while collecting their public servant wages without fulfilling their public servant duties, maybe it is time we dispense with these farces of an election and select our next president the old-fashioned Constitutional way. Each citizien casts two votes for the presidental office from the serving members of Congress, one of which cannot be a representative from their state of residency. The one with the most votes wins, and the runner up becomes Vice President regardless of party affiliation. No more marketing, half-truths, mud-slinging or over the top conventioneering which could pay off half the national debt. No more Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannitty, Keith Olberman, or Larry King spins. Instead, a nation electing a leader with dignity and a quiet transfer then of leadership without international interference with foreigners even arranging fund raisers in order to secure future foreign aid for their own countries or Israel.

Meanwhile, I do hope Obama changes back, and changes back soon or we are in for not simply a bumpy ride, America, but corporate welfare and globalism continuing in the FDR, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and G.W. tradition. More intertwining our economies with that of other nations, and global protectionism rather than American protectionism.