November 23, 2010
YES, THE WHITE HOUSE LACKS ANYONE WITH EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE...:
Obama needs a governor in the West Wing (Jonathan Capehart, 11/21/10, Washington Post)
Focusing on Obama's personnel, we agreed that the president needed to widen his circle of confidants beyond his Chicago security blanket. "He needs a governor," my friend said. My perfect candidates: Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) and Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.).As governors of struggling industrial states, Rendell and Granholm have had to make the painful budgetary decisions that Washington continues to put off. They have faced an angry and fearful electorate and have had to be inventive in addressing their states' problems. The people they govern are the very voters Obama continues to have trouble connecting with; remember that Obama lost the Pennsylvania primary to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also won Michigan's "beauty contest," though Obama pulled his name from the Michigan ballot after the state Democratic Party broke national party rules by moving up its primary date.
...but the answer isn't a failed governor. Those two just got out of office one step ahead of the lynch mob. How about Richard Daley, who was a great mayor.
