Thursday, January 31, 2008

The people who made the 90's great want Obama

Top advisors in the Obama camp


Former energy and transportation secretary Federico Peña, was United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997 and United States Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 1998, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. William Daley served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, foreign policy gurus Anthony Lake foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997 and Susan Rice, from 1993-1995, she was Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the National Security Council. Between 1995 and 1997, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC. After that, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 until 2001, former Navy secretary Richard Danzig attended the Bronx High School of Science, received a B.A. degree from Reed College, a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Upon his graduation from law school, Danzig served as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and women's advocate Betsy Myers former director of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership, as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Women's Initiatives. Since September, 1993, Myers has served as SBA's Assistant Administrator for the Office of Women's Business Ownership. In that post, Myers responsibilities included: coordinating federal efforts on behalf of nearly 7.8 million women entrepreneurs; speaking on behalf of women business owners throughout the country; increasing access to capital and technical assistance for women entrepreneurs; overseeing a nationwide mentor program, which brings together experienced women CEOs with women business owners ready to expand their business; and negotiating prime and sub-contracting goals for women-owned businesses with federal agencies. Before joining the SBA, Myers was the owner of Myers Insurance and Financial Services of Los Angeles, California -- specializing in women-owned businesses, providing insurance, employee benefits, as well as retirement planning and investments. Myers earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of San Diego. Deval Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a former top civil-rights enforcer in the Clinton administration, Patrick graduated from Milton Academy in 1974 and from Harvard College (with a concentration in English and American literature) in 1978. He then spent a year working with the United Nations in Africa. In 1979, Patrick returned to the United States and enrolled at Harvard Law School. While in law school, Patrick was elected president of the Legal Aid Bureau, where he first worked defending poor families in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Karen Kornbluh is an American economist, former United States Treasury Department official, and expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. She is currently policy director for Barack Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/who-is-obamas-brain_b_80200.html
Austan D. Goolsbee is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He is the lead economic advisor to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign and is known as a centristHis educational degrees are: B.A. summa cum laude (economics), Yale University, 1991; M.A. (economics), Yale University, 1991; Ph.D. (economics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. He was an Alfred Sloan Fellow (2000-02) and Fulbright scholar (2006-07)


Last, for those of you cncerned about the war in Iraq. This was is not a product of George HW Bush it is a product of the 2 presidents before him. Bush sr. didn’t finish the job in Iraq and on October 31, 1998 US President Bill Clinton signed a bill into law called the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. This bills stated purpose is “a United States Congressional statement of policy calling for regime change in Iraq.” Hillary won’t get us out because the Clintons got us there in the first place. Bill Clinton directly instituted the policy of regime change in Iraq.