It’s About Making Babies!

This is getting scary.

Michelle Malkin points out the lack of credible public health experience of the nominee for President-elect Obama’s Surgeon General, Sanjay Gupta. A CNN talking head, in charge of US public health?

But there is an explanation:

Before joining CNN, Gupta was a fellow in neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee’s Semmes-Murphy clinic, and before that, the University of Michigan Medical Center. He became partner of the Great Lakes Brain and Spine Institute in 2000, and in 1997, he was chosen as a White House Fellow — one of only 15 fellows appointed. He served as special advisor to first lady Hillary Clinton.

Yes, this is another Clinton re-tread. Does this mean that the only people competent in America, worked in the Clinton administration? Or does Hillary Clinton hold some kind of arm-twisting, “defy me and I’ll pull a Ken Starr on you” threat to Obama, his family, or his public image? I seem to recall the unauthorized biographies of Mrs. Bill Clinton were quite pointed about mentioning the astonishing number of people that Hillary disparaged that turned up unexpectedly dead. Perhaps Obama has reason to fear, and turn his presidency over to Hillary.

Because, really, if President-elect Obama wanted this next administration to be Bill Clinton’s third term – why didn’t he deal Hillary in from the get-go? Why the campaign stand on “change” when he keeps investing in people loyal to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton years, that all happen to be invested in exploiting things as they are today?

President-elect Obama, sir. I don’t believe you can impress the nation, or lead effectively, when you put someone else in the driver’s seat, when you staff your administration with people loyal to the Clintons. And I don’t think you can rely on the people that elected you for support when you seem to be discarding the opportunity to put competent people in positions of authority – that agree with what you promised.

Ballot stuffing, voter fraud, the taint of potentially illegal contributions, and voter registration irregularities aside, one of the important blocks of votes that won the elect for Obama-Biden was the previously non-voting, disgruntled African-American community. I see the November 2008 election as a strong vote of dissidence – of outrage and anger by people that felt they were unfairly treated by previous administrations. This was a divisive vote, setting a powerful minority against mainstream politics.

Only, now President-elect Obama seems to expect the people that put him in office – to go to sleep. To overlook the way Hillary Clinton et al are being given the balance of the cabinet. To overlook the way the Obama administration, based on how the positions of authority all seem to be beholden to Hillary Clinton, seems to be heavily invested in keeping things the way they are.