Bottom Line: Obama and the Libs Have to Go

The posts have been few in recent weeks here at The Day After. Things have been busy at my day job, and I’ve had more than a few personal obligations to fulfil. There  just aren’t enough hours in the day. This blog is a recreational outlet for me and a nice, easy means to convey thoughts and ideas, as well as to vent frustration. Oh, the frustration.

That being said, I wanted to take a few minutes to post that in no way whatsoever have I gone soft on Obama and the liberals. I was asked recently if I had begun to embrace change and accept the fact that the liberals were here to stay. The person who asked, did so because of the sparse posting here. My answer was ” No way in hell – we have to run them out now. I’ll get back to it.”

Also there’s this. These guys, especially the ones in Washington, are up to so much lately that it’s tough to keep track of just exactly what they are doing. It’s almost like they’re bum-rushing us into socialism. So, without the benefit of unlimited free time for research, it’s difficult sometimes to decide which subject, event, or betrayal to post about. Lately it’s been what’s most important to me.

I thought about maybe taking this blog in only one direction instead of hopping around from subject to subject. My primary goals are to help shed light on the hypocisy and the corruption that Obama brought with him to D.C., and to get the Clinton machine, including Obama, out of there. Of course along the way we’ll have to address the antics of Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and Dodd.

So here we go…again.

Desirée Rogers for Commerce Secretary, Why Not?

 

Desirée Rogers, a Chicago corporate executive and civic leader, streaked to the top of Washington’s A-list in November 2008 when Obama announced that she would take on the role of social secretary in his White House.

As the country’s first black presidential social secretary, Ms. Rogers, an Obama fund-raiser and an executive at Allstate Financial, will oversee every White House social event, from Easter egg hunts to lavish state dinners (along with those oh-so-important guest lists). An invitation to make her acquaintance quickly became one of the most coveted accouterments among the political elite.

Originally from New Orleans, Ms. Rogers has an M.B.A. from Harvard, a philanthropic bent, a penchant for designer fashions, a diverse and powerful group of friends and a reputation for stylish entertaining in her Gold Coast condominium. In Chicago, she has been a regular on the society pages and a fixture at fund-raising galas. She has been on a first-name basis with the city’s politicians, corporate executives and cultural leaders.

She is a registered Democrat who has often reached across the political aisle, working as the Illinois lottery chief for the Republican Gov. Jim Edgar in the 1990s and contributing $2,000 to President’s Bush re-election campaign and $1,000 to his Democratic rival, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, federal election records show. (In the most recent election, she focused on the Democrats, raising $100,000 to $200,000 for Mr. Obama and personally contributing thousands to other candidates, the records show.)

She is a well-known businesswoman who ran Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas, a $1.1 billion utility in Chicago, from 2004 until June of 2008, when she became president of a unit of Allstate Financial. 

When we hear the word “change”, this is what we expect. Ms. Rogers is the only Obama appointee so far that demonstrates any change in Washington. It’s only too bad that she couldn’t have been appointed as commerce secretary, a post for which she seems to be aptly qualified.

A commerce secretary appointment for Ms. Rogers would have spared Obama the embarrassment of selecting another corrupt official for a cabinet post. Also it would demonstrate that Obama does have the ability to occasionally make a good decison. The fact that Ms. Rogers is not a Clintonista even adds to the sensibility of such an appointment. With Richardson out, here’s Obama’s chance to make things right.

Another positive for Ms. Rogers, neither Peoples Gas /North Shore Gas nor Allstate Financial are asking for bailouts.

Third Clinton Term Draws Near

Early morning preparations continue for Obama’s Inaugural Reviewing Stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008