Barack Obama said he was going to be bipartisan. But clearly he lied. CQ hits the nail on the head:
Now that President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet is, by his count, half picked, the odds are fading that he’ll have more than one Republican on his team — suggesting that his campaign promise to include Republicans may have meant nothing more than the usual token appointment from the other side.Only one Republican in his cabinet. Now, sure, Obama saved Joe Lieberman, John McCain's biggest supporter, from a certain political death. But how many Joe Lieberman's has Obama saved? Just one. Anyone else seeing a pattern here? To paraphrase CQ, the odds are fading that Obama will save more than one Joe Lieberman, more than one political enemy who was out to destroy him. (Well, okay, two if you count reaching out to Hillary, but I'm on a roll here, so let's ignore her for the moment.)
And look at Obama's position on global warming. He says it exists. That's not very bipartisan. And his position on gay rights. Obama says we should treat gays as human beings. Can you say demagogue?
And while we're at it, what about Joe Biden? Did anybody else notice how 100% of Obama's vice presidential picks have already been made, and not a single Republican name among them? All of Obama's vice presidents are Democrats. Is that change we can believe in? I say nay. If Obama were serious about bipartisanship, he would have conceded on election night and handed the country to John McCain for the next four years. Is beating your Republican opponent, and taking the job he's prepared his entire life for, anyone's definition of bipartisanship?
It might not be such an issue, except that Obama spent so much time on the campaign trail talking about his intention to have a bipartisan Cabinet and reach out to Republicans for ideas. Forget about reaching out for ideas, why not just pretend the Republicans won, that our eight year nightmare was just a dream, that we're winning in Iraq and Afghanistan, that the economy is going to grow by 4% this year rather than having been destroyed by 14 years of Republican rule, and that wishes are horses and beggars can fly.
And while we're at it, did anybody else notice that all of Obama's children are black? Not very racially bipartisan, if you ask me and CQ.
