Hello everyone!  Freedom Phil back for more wonderful political discussion.  Our nation has spoken, and in a historic move, elected Barak Obama as our first black President.  For those that watched his victory speech it was truly amazing.  Even a hardened political skeptic like myself couldn’t help but but be in awe of the speech and promise in it.

I think President-elect Obama is the most naturally gifted politician since Ronald Reagen — and nothing against the Gipper — probably a lot more intelligent.  I have many friends, some of them card carrying conservatives, that have fallen under his spell.  I can’t say I have quite yet because of a few things.

1. He’s isn’t President quite yet

2. So far the candidate of ‘change’ has appointed a whole lot of Clintonites.  Much of his transition team are former Clinton stooges and guess who he picked as his Secretary of State?  Hilary Rodham Clinton.

A few of the picks or likely picks…

Attorney General: Eric H. Holder Jr a former deputy Attorney General under (wait for it) President Bill Clinton.

Chief of Staff: Rahm Emmanuel a senior adviser under (wait for it) President Bill Clinton.

Commerce Secretary: Bill Richardson the former energy secretary under (you guessed it!) Bill Clinton.

Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano who had been appointed by (I think you might be detecting a pattern) President Bill Clinton as the US Attorney for Arizona.

Director of the National Economic Council: Lawrence Summers who was a former treasury secretary under (I know you’ve heard it before) former President Clinton.

Senior Counsel: Greg Craig served the Clinton White House in numerous roles including assistant to the President and Special Counsel to the White House (*starts to sing* ch-ch-ch-changes).

What might surprise you is that I’m actually glad of the candidates he’s chosen.  They show a couple things (at least in my thinking).  That one he’s going to make good on his claims to be a centrist (despite being very far left in his early career) and he’s picking people that definitely have experience in dealing with economic and foreign policy issues.

So Obama spoke about the need for a huge stimulus package that could cost another $700 Billion dollars on top of the $700 Billion for Wall Street, $30 Billion for the auto companies and an assorted $100 Billion on other company saves.  Where will it end?  And what about “Main Street” — how much will we see of this money?  I’m guessing we will get the usual.  A hot cup of jack squat, but we will have to see.

This current economic situation has touched me personally.  My job was eliminated as a consequence of the market.  It is pretty sad but I’m been trying hard for over a month to get another job and it is difficult.  This is probably the scariest economic situation our nation has faced since 1929.  Hopefully it won’t get that bad.

Again, I’ll reserve judgment on our soon to be President until he’s actually been in office.