Podesta, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff, helped create the Center for American Progress in 2003
Podesta modeled the Center for American Progress on the conservative Heritage Foundation, which gained fame by offering ideas, strategies and personnel to Ronald Reagan when he won the presidency in 1980.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_el_pr/obama_think_tank;_ylt=AoyrxCIQyuNd4M8tTI1I2rOs0NUE
http://www.americanprogress.org/
July 24th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Same thing I would think about Jeremiah Wright or David Duke and their ideas: they are disingenuous, dishonest, racially divisive, and above all, untrustworthy.
July 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Palin claims that all her appointees as governor ‘absolutely’ deserved the job.
– More than 100 appointments to state posts — nearly 1 in 4 — went to campaign contributors or their relatives, sometimes without apparent regard to qualifications.
– Alaska historians say some of Palin’s appointees were less qualified than those of her Republican and Democratic predecessors.
– [Tom] Lamal, a public school teacher in Fairbanks until he retired in 2006, was hired as a right-of-way agent despite reports of internal conflicts over whether he was qualified under state law.
The New York Times also reported last month that Palin appointed a high school classmate to a top position in the State Division of Agriculture who “cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.”