Former Bush Budget Director Praises Obama's Pick for Job

Well now, when those who destroyed
America praise Obama's budget director pick, are we to think this to be damnation with faint praise? Will Obama continue Bush's policies if his picks please the neocons? OMG.

PeterG...

Man, you should really get off the kool aid bro! Again, while some of the cabinet picks have been really good IMHO, he still hasn't served one single day as being the actual president. He is still holding the newly created office of president-elect.

Exactly what evidence do you have of his brilliant intelligence, and to quote you, his intelligence being "off the chart". Do you have some kind of secret access to his school records, which like all other records concerning Obama, have been sealed?? I seriously doubt it.

It reminds me of the staement of an Obama team player who made a similar statement a little over a week ago on the Don Imus radio show. He made the statement that Obama's "intelligence and IQ are off the chart". Well, when pressed for a direct answer by Imus to exactly what Obama's IQ was, since the idiot made the statement on live radio, the moron answered the question "I don't know" because he didn't have the actual facts himself.

So PeterG, maybe get off that kool aid and swig a little coffee :) Making uninformed statements like the one you made in your post make your "intelligence seem off the chart". Only in the opposite direction of what you said about "one of our best presidents ever". He is not yet our president, and you have no factual information as to his true intelligence. So go make that pot of coffee and get to drinking!

While I am definitely not an Obama supporter, I have been pleasantly surprised with some of his cabinet picks. And judging by the reaction on the hard core left wing kook blogger sites (they're NOT happy) I should be.

But we should all still keep in mind that he hasn't actually served one day yet in his newly elected job, unless you count the office of president-elect. So let's wait and see what he does once he actually has to do something, then unleash judgement. You know, maybe hold those Lincoln comparisons until he actually serves :)

Jamaica is praying for you President Elect Obama

Posted by:EP

Republicans lies are coming home to roost...pray, WHERE is the socialist/communist Obama >>?????
Rush Limbaugh, shawn hannity, go hide your shameful heads...punks.

I concur with the posting of "One best president's ever." His inteligence is off the scale, his inspiration is off the charts yet he's totally in touch with the common ordinary man. I can not remember a president in my lifetime as extrodinary as this man is. He can not clean up the mess made over the past decade in a heart beat, but it will happen over time!

Ms Walters was offisde talking about Mr. Obama's nictoine habit. We are not all born perfect. He is a great person.

I hope Orszag can do better in this job than would be indicated by his letter of Feb. 15, 2008 to Hon. Kent Conrad
(available in full on the web) in which he presented a forecast of 3% to 4% growth in nominal GDP and rather flat 5.2% to 5.5% unemployment rate through the years 2008 and 2009 for us. If anyplace should be able to report believable statistics, it should be the CBO. How can an agency with so much data at its hands be so far off in its predictions in a time frame so close to the impending disaster which we are now experiencing?

Dear Lord forgive the republicans, for
they know not what they are doing or saying. What happened to love thy neigbor as thy self?

It seems that Obama is looking before he leaps. Good idea!

Portman taught a course on public budgeting at my school & had nothing but praise for Peter Orszag...he even used some of his analysis in the class. Portman's a stand-up guy.

Obama has a surprise for you guys. A lot of people "misunderestimated" (quoting George Hoover Bush)him. The ingenuity and competency of this guy is incomparable. Give Obama one year in the white house, and he will be one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had. At this point, Bush should just concede and let Obama take over from here. We are better off without him.

no comment from me until I get direction from our economic intellectual mastermind "Joe the Plumber".

Orszag was from the Brookings Institute and opposed the bi-partisan Portman-Cardin bill which included retirement catch-up provisions for those over 50 yrs. Oraszag opposed these because the rich might benefit and build an estate via their retirement contributions. Despite naysayer Orszag, Congress passed the bill and Bush signed it.

If he approves of Obama's pick I am concerned...

Egads! What's happened to the Marxian Dictatorship of the Proletariat that the Republicans were screaming about?

why not, they both plan on giving billions in bail outs. a pox on both the dems and the gop

What! Hillary (obliterate Iran) is the radical of the group? I was expecting Ayers, Wright, Kalidi, and Rezko from all the robo calls I received. Oh, I get these are the "men in the street" he wants to keep in touch with on his BLACKberry. The Right felt Bush was better in 2000 so I was apprehensive about McCain too. I feel so misled that I keep remembering what my mother used to say, "If you can't say something good don't say anything at all." I don't always follow that creed but sometimes I feel voting "present" isn't such a bad idea.

Orszag has stated that he intends to get federal spending priorities under control. I certainly hope he can accomplish his bipartisan goal.

Wait, I though Obama was supposed to be a communist. How can this be?