Calling all O'Piles, calling all O'Piles...please pick up the Clinton hotline for your change. hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Now, now, hold your teasing tongue, Cyni.
If truth be told, Clinton Retread Bill Richardson was chosen only because Obama's first pick for Commerce turned him down. And my what a fresh new face Penny would have been. Not! Pritzker is a diehard IsraelFirster Zionist ( per Philip Weiss blog) in addition to her other business related pitfalls.
"I don't want to be commerce secretary: Penny Pritzker"
WASHINGTON -- Penny Pritzker, the Chicago billionaire who played a key role in President-elect Barack Obama's political career, said Thursday she does not want to be considered for commerce secretary, issuing a statement after her name had been mentioned for the Cabinet spot.
Pritzker, a member of the Obama transition team, chaired his presidential finance committee and helped raise money for earlier campaigns...
The position would have required Senate confirmation. A potential controversy she may have faced would have the 2001 failure of the Superior Bank in Hinsdale, which her family controlled. Pritzker was the former chairwoman of the bank.
A member of one of the nation's wealthiest families, which controls the Hyatt hotel chain, Pritzker is chairwoman of TransUnion, the credit company; chairwoman of the Parking Spot (whose CEO, Marty Nesbit was the treasurer of Obama's presidential campaign), and chairwoman of Classic Residence by Hyatt.
Richardson threw in his lot with Obongo even tho he owed the Clintons big time.
One way or another he is going to pay for that gross error. The Clintons are NOT forgiving people.
Well someone's going to have to take the fall for not turning around this recession doomed economy in the next 4 years and it ain't going to be the Messiah or his Treasury Secretary, Timothy Gothenstein ( whatever), so I wager that the Fickle Finger of Fate will point at the Commerce Secty - old Chuckles Richardson.