This post is hardly a criticism of Obama. And, as plenty of noted, if you want experienced people contributing to the administration, you are going to have folks who worked in the Clinton administration.

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Let's wait and see how many war profiteers, mercenaries and torturers Bush pardons before he leaves office. But never mind that. Of course Bill Clinton's pardon of Frank Rich is so much worse because, you know, he's a Democrat and he got a blow job in the oval office and all that. It amazes me the amount of hatred otherwise reasonable people continue to harbor against the Clintons. Criticizing Obama for hiring people who worked in the Clinton administration is just another aspect of the hysterical anti-Clinton hatred that continues to fester among many quarters of the right and left.

Just because Obama is intelligent enough to recruit talented people with experience (rather than populating his administration with second-rate sycophants and inept hacks ala G.W. Bush) doesn't automatically invalidate his promise to change Washington. The first step toward getting anything done is assembling a group of people competent enough to actually help you achieve what you want to achieve. Whether he will do so remains to be seen. But criticizing him before he even gets started is infantile and unnecessary.

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