Hypocrisy II

[unixronin]

Is there ANYONE among Obama’s cabinet, staff and appointees who doesn’t have skeletons in the closet?

Quoting writerspleasure,

Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up, huge fines and scalding condemnation of passive directors by a top federal regulator.

One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members was Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel - now chief of staff to President Barack Obama - who made at least $320,000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac that required little effort.

(In case you missed it, Obama’s pick for deputy EPA administrator stepped down the other day, after learning that a nonprofit he served on was “under scrutiny” for some kind of financial shenanigans.)

Comments

[danjite.livejournal.com]

I think it more the case than it being Obama's choices, that pretty much anybody close enough to any national level politician is going to have such issues because otherwise they wouldn't have had what it takes in the Us to rise to the attention of a national politician.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're right, which is a rather sad commentary on US politics. It's almost impossible to succeed in national politics if you're honest and unwilling to compromise on principles.

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I agree with this sentiment. More specifically, everyone has skeletons in thier closet. The real question is how big are they, and how well are they hidden. Obama does seem to have a talent for choosing people with big, poorly hidden skeletons. This also make me question the qulifications of his advisors that these skeletons are being revealed this quickly, are they alseep at the switch, or do they not have any better candidates.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, we ARE talking about someone whose political base is Chicago.... ;)

[danjite.livejournal.com]

I think they are uncomfortable to use more Stazi-like vetting tactics that they really should be using. They are still pretending to be the good guys- to themselves, of course- whereas BushCo were getting like Himmler in his red-leather seiquined Stormtrooper uniform and wallowing in the stench of their own putridity.