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2011-01-07 Home Front: Politix

[Iran Press TV] US President Barack B.O. Obama has named a centrist with Wall Street ties as the new chief of staff, replacing the former chief Rahm Emanuel.

William Michael Daley will be the long-standing successor to the former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who left the administration last year in the hope of running for mayor of Chicago.

W. Daley, a longtime Illinois political activist, will now hold the chief of staff in the White House, where he will have a part in the prospective staff's access to the Oval Office and what President B.O.'s Capitol Hill agenda should be.

Daley, as a top executive at JP Morgan Chase Bank, was paid as much as $5 million a year supervising the Washington lobbying efforts for JP Morgan -- the US second largest bank. He also served on the administration board at the giant defense contractor Boeing and Abbott Laboratories -- the global drug company.

"As the chief of staff, he is the gatekeeper, and that means real power in Washington," said Ellen S. Miller, co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation.

The former commerce secretary, 62, who is not intimately connected with Obama, has a well-formed professional background, including work as a lawyer in private practice, a bank president, a telecommunications company executive, a political strategist, fund-raiser and campaign chief, a lobbyist for foreign corporations as well as a three-year period as commerce secretary in former US President Bill Clinton's administration.

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Liberals may regard Daley's appointment with suspicion, arguing he has close affinities with big business and may encourage Obama to compromise too much with Republicans in a move to the political center ahead of 2012, the Telegraph reported.

Posted by Fred 2011-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Running for reelection already?

Posted by gorb 2011-01-07 00:40|| 2011-01-07 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 "Centrist with Wall Street ties...". Centrist my ass. The only things centrist about him might be his location mid-way across the country.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2011-01-07 03:05|| 2011-01-07 03:05|| Front Page Top

#3 So much for no lobbyists.

Posted by no mo uro 2011-01-07 06:05|| 2011-01-07 06:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Do you miss me yet?

Posted by Robert Gibbs 2011-01-07 07:19|| 2011-01-07 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I surely do, Bob.

Posted by GWB 2011-01-07 07:49|| 2011-01-07 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 William Michael Daley will be the long-standing successor to the former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel

a little strange. He's got two years max. I figure less when Barack's narcissist bubble starts getting really squeezed in the campaign. It can't possibly be Teh One's fault that everyone figured out he's an empty-suited pussy

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-07 08:11|| 2011-01-07 08:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Jumpin jayzus on a pogo stick, a 3 fer. Not only is he a Chicago (machine) Daley (corruption comes with the name), he's JP Morgan, one of the biggest problems in terms of the government-banking corruption that's going on, and he is a lobbyist for strike 3.

Do we need paint by numbers for people to get the picture that Obama is probably one of the most corrupt machine pols to hold the office since the Harding or Nixon administration? He's turning the federal government into Tammany Hall.

Its Nixon that Obama seems to be coming more and more like, with his thin skin and "enemies" list, and use of the federal agencies as a personal vengeance or goon service (IRS investigations, SS visits).

Posted by OldSpook 2011-01-07 09:31|| 2011-01-07 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 "William Michael Daley", also known as Bill Daley, AlGore's illustrious Campaign Manager who single-handedly cost the taxpayers big $$$ (and other stuff) by telling Gore to 'stick it out' when Uncle Al already had called Bush to concede before the Florida vote recount. Based on Daley's promptings, Sr. Gore decided to go for the recount. It was the "Chicago Way" after all.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-01-07 10:12|| 2011-01-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 No real surprise that a corrupt Obama puts in a corrupt Chicago politician.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-01-07 10:26|| 2011-01-07 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey, OldSpook, leave Tricky Dick out of this. He was a saint compared to his predecessor Lyndon Bull$|t Johnson. And then there's LBJ's predecessor John Frickin' Kennedy who won the 1960 with the help of none other than the Daley's of Chicago.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-01-07 12:50|| 2011-01-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Er, that's 1960 election.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-01-07 12:52|| 2011-01-07 12:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Gee, ANOTHER slimy crook from Cheek-a-go?

What a surprise.

Posted by mojo 2011-01-07 12:56|| 2011-01-07 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 The next step in his attempt to instatutionalize the Chicago Corruption model.

Posted by 49 Pan 2011-01-07 13:27|| 2011-01-07 13:27|| Front Page Top

#14 still agitated that Frank insulted both empty suits and pussies in one fell swoop......( pussies, as in wimps, not cats)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-01-07 14:16|| 2011-01-07 14:16|| Front Page Top

#15 New acronym for you to use, Commodore Frank:

ESP (empty-suited pussy)

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-07 16:19|| 2011-01-07 16:19|| Front Page Top

#16 *** cough *** cough *** cough *** ...

D *** NG IT, IS THERE NO END TO THE TACO BELL XXL CHALUPA JIHAD TODAY!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-07 19:37|| 2011-01-07 19:37|| Front Page Top

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