Obama transition team announced
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(CNN) - Barack Obama and Joe Biden formally announced their transition team Wednesday, and named former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, longtime Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse, Obama's Senate chief of staff, to oversee the operation.
Full announcement after the jump
Chicago – For the past several months, a board of advisors has been informally planning for a possible presidential transition. Among the many projects undertaken by the transition board have been detailed analyses of previous transition efforts, policy statements made during the campaign, and the workings of federal government agencies, and priority positions that must be filled by the incoming administration.
With Barack Obama and Joe Biden's election, this planning process will be now be formally organized as the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501(c)(4) organization to ensure a smooth transition from one administration to the next. The work of this entity will be overseen by three co-chairs: John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse.
The co-chairs will be assisted by an advisory board comprised of individuals with significant private and public sector experience: Carol Browner, William Daley, Christopher Edley, Michael Froman, Julius Genachowski, Donald Gips, Governor Janet Napolitano, Federico Peña, Susan Rice, Sonal Shah, Mark Gitenstein, and Ted Kaufman. Gitenstein and Kaufman will serve as co-chairs of Vice President-elect Biden's transition team.
Supervising the day-to-day activities of the transition will be:
Transition Senior Staff:
Chris Lu – Executive Director
Dan Pfeiffer – Communications Director
Stephanie Cutter – Chief Spokesperson
Cassandra Butts – General Counsel
Jim Messina – Personnel Director
Patrick Gaspard – Associate Personnel Director
Christine Varney – Personnel Counsel
Melody Barnes – Co-Director of Agency Review
Lisa Brown – Co-Director of Agency Review
Phil Schiliro – Director of Congressional Relations
Michael Strautmanis – Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs
Katy Kale – Director of Operations
Brad Kiley – Director of Operations
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Good for him, he's not wasting any time!
Hopefully everything will go smooth for our new President!
Congratulations to you and us. I know you are ready. Peace and love
A good start...tell us more.
I hope he reaches across the line and gets involved with
the Republican side, otherwise, it will be just another typical
politician whose intentions were never really to unite.
President elect Barack Obama, doing his things despite grieving for his grandmother. He will put together a great transition team just like he put together a great campaign team. And they will be just as successful. He will look at people, not their party affiliations and their qualifications for the job. Another great step! Get a big win under your belt the first YEAR!
Cool! And a new play begins. Curtains are up and the lights are focused on the main actor.
P.S. I love the hologram thingy. I love Star trek and it was awesome to watch it. The political panel last nights looks like the main deck. Who is Zulu, first lt. commander or Captain Kirk?? I think Captain Kirk is in the situation room. Another reason to watch and love CNN. Congratulations.
Fired up and ready to go... We are all behind you Mr President.
Now go get them!
Fh & Family.
Did you all enjoy the Obama stock market rally?
It was only down 500 points to celebrate his election and tax and spending programs to come.
Best close out your 401k's and IRA's now before they go to zero.
Bad choice America.
Congratulations to our President-elect Obama and Vicepresident-elect Biden! And already getting to work... wonderful! I have a feeling this will be a smooth transition. "Peace & Prosperity" for all!
Make us proud, it's about time for SOMEONE in Washington that does!
A very good day for america. To have narrowly avoided certain demise if we had chosen the turn coat and the secessionist.
Obama, a true american hero that hasn't abandoned his wife and/or country ever in his life!
Don't forget to add:
Karl Marx – Central Economic Planner, and general all-around "best idea" guy
I just hope the press decides to at least do their job and actually inform us about who these people are and what they have done or will do for us so we at least know the type of people Barack will be surrounding himself with. Wether you voted for him or not he does have a shakey record with the people he calls friends.
Put down the Kool Aid and Time to do your jobs "journalists".
Not related subject
African American need to STOP SAYING THEY ARE PROUD TO BE AFRICAN AMERICAN THEY NEEDTO GET TO WORK
REWARD JUST DOES NOT HAPPEN
YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR IT!!!
It sickens me to see hussain obama as president. this election was all about race ,not about what he is going to do for the country. His speach he gave was all about race and blacks.In my eyes it was a text book M.L.K SPEECH WHAT ABOUT THE COUNTRY. Nothing was said about the country and what he is really going to do. but how far blacks have come in the 80 or so years people. enough abiut his color enough Lets see what he is really about
impressive
democrats – viciously tore at each others til the end, then burned the bridge between them and the repubs, forever leaving an unseen division between the people of america, lets all cheer for – team divide america, led by the power craved democrats
Wow...Now that's what I call:ORGANIZATION!
Bully to all of you..
Thanks for the start of hopefullly more fond memories..
Blessings,
~Gloria in Seal Beach
Taking it all in~ Congratulations!
Good news, lets get the job going right now
GOBAMA ! Congratulations to our President 'Elect' Obama and his historic win in the Election 2008 !!
Strategic & Intellectual content in governance is the way to go – how refreshing!
Hey everybody,
I'm a German and Iam so proud of the USA. Last night you showed the Republicans that this election was all about the issues, not character.
And you showed the world that there's no hidden racism. The election of Barack Obama was the right step, to get your country back on track.
Let's pray together for Barack, his family, his grandma and hope, that the next 4 years of an Obama administration will heal many wounds. I'm proud of all of you that voted for him, and when he became president at 11 p.m. ET I cried some tears of joy.
Thank you America, thank you for making a dream become reality!
God bless you
Will people PLEASE stop saying race is why Obama won? Look, I know he got 95% of the black vote but for heavens sake Bill Clinton got 90% of it and I'm sure Gore/Kerry were not that far off. Blacks have always had extremely lopsided democratic numbers- just even more so this year, but honestly can you blame them?
Also, blacks make up what 15% of our population? So getting 95% of their vote, although pushing him over the top, is not why he won. Obama got 62 Million votes. 62!!! he got way more white votes than black and I don't think white people voted for him because they wanted a black president.
That's what I like Mr. President. You are not wasting any time. I will continue to pray for you and your success daily and I will continue to pray for your family as well.
I just hope the press decides to at least do their job and actually inform us about who these people are and what they have done or will do for us so we at least know the type of people Barack will be surrounding himself with.
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This is the transition team, not the cabinet. Calm down little buddy.
If they are as smart as I hope and believe they are, they will tell Obama that he needs Republicans at State and Defense.
After eight years of Bush, our foreign and defense policy need to be de-politicized generally.
Moreover, there needs to be a political firewall between the new President and those members of the radical right who would undermine the country in order to bring him down.