Within weeks, President Obama may lose one of his closest advisers, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel has signaled he could leave the White House as soon as the Senate adjourns — expected this week or next — to begin a campaign for mayor of Chicago. In the past three months, Obama has lost nearly every member of his original economic team, save for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner — who is now facing some "will he stay or will he go" scrutiny of his own. Peter Orszag, Obama's budget director, resigned in July. Christina Romer, chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, left earlier this month. And this week, chief economic adviser Larry Summers announced he would leave the White House before the end of the year to return to Harvard. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signaled he will leave sometime in 2011, probably after the planned July 2011 drawdown of troops from Afghanistan.
This could be the thing for Pres. Obama I didn't like nor trust any of those people. His advisers have been horrendous. Elizabeth Warren, who he just brought in is the only person on his staff that I have strong positive feelings about.
Except there was a war from the git-go. And if it's one thing American politicians won't do in war, is quit (except Nam). Even though they should have. Eventually they HAD TO kick Rumsfeld's ("I am retiring") ass to the curb, Powell's ass was called on the carpet by Congress...it was a mess, but no-one left by choice. Not even the Generals.
Agreed on your first line. Obama's treasurer, Geithner, was a Wall St fat cat banker. How do you put a Wall streeter in charge of fixing our economic mess?
Aii the rats are jumping ship. They know if they want to make money, now is the time to get out, rather than wait until Obama is out of office as a one term president.
