After a long heart felt presidential battle over the past couple of months, it was decided that Senator Barack Obama would become the new president. For nearly two weeks each nominee was doing their own thing until monday morning when they met at President Elect Barack Obama's transistion office in Chicago. Here they met to discuss the key issue's on the president elects agenda such as climate change, energy efficiency and national service.
Going into this meeting John Mccain was intent on helping Barack Obama with whatever he could in order to better the country. He and President Elect Obama were going to talk on how he could help the Obama administration, and also help the two party's get through the infamous "partisan politics". This has been one of the first times in months where the two presidential nominees were able to sit down and discuss what they could do to help one another. Before each Nominees campaign, the two were not known for working together very much exept for an ethics and lobbying bill which did not work out the way that either of them wanted. McCain wasn't very pleased with Obama when he suggested to move the bill to the Senate committees. Mccain thought this was a tactic in order to form a partisan bill. Mccain Then called Obama out on "Partisan Posturing" and wrote him a letter explaining his frustration.
However, this meeting was about them coming together in order to work on the major items on Obama's agenda such as universal health-care to global warming. Obama has seemed intent on meeting with not only McCain, but also former rival Hilary Clinton. He has yet to figure out his cabinent and perhaps is looking at them to help him in the White House. Also, he has been trying to convince independent senator Joe Lieberman to stay a democrat. Lieberman was so famously known for endorsing McCain earlier in the year, which upset many democrats. Obama, is trying his best to make a easy transition into the White House, and is looking to others such as McCain and Clinton to help.
Questions
- Do you think that so far Obama has done a good job at trying to make his transition easy?
- What roles do you think John McCain and Hilary Clinton will play in Obama's Presidency?
- Is this presidency going to stand out and make a big step towards bipartisan politics?
1 comment:
I think that it is far too early to judge how Obama is transitioning into the Presidency. I think it is great that he is willing to work with McCain and Clinton to work on his policies and see what is best for this country. Obama does have a history of leaning left and not voting in a "bipartisan" way, but now that he takes on the role of president I hope that he can make some changes and work with people who can help; He will be needing all of the help that he can get once he takes on the role of president. I think this is a horrible time in our country to become president because of the economic crisis and many other issues that have arose over the past few years while Bush has been in office.
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