Eric Holder is Obama's attorney general

[The Mikado]

A fine selection.

[The Mikado]

I fail to see what's non-changey (imaginary word) about Eric Holder.  Unlike our last three Attorney Generals, he's not 1. a Senator who lost reelection to a dead man who sang in a second-rate barbershop quartet, 2. an incompetent flunkie with a fondness for torture and inappropriate ideas about politicizing DOJ, or 3. the Invisible Man.  He's a calm, competent operator with a track record of success, a pair of safe hands to put our Justice Department in.  I can't think of any bigger change than competency and intelligence in our Justice Department.  What more could you ask for?

[The Mikado]

So where's all that change that Obama fellow was talking about during the campagain?

It was all BS.  He has never been about change, he is a conventional liberal democrat picking Clinton retreads and inside the beltway career hack politicians.  The only thing different about him is his skin color.

LOL

The funny thing is that if Obama DIDN'T choose people with experience, nattering Republicans here would be blasting him for being inexperienced...and surrounding himself with inexperienced people.

You guys are really going to have to start wearing Clintonmeters -- which display, on any given day, whether you love them or hate them.  Because, since about 2006, I have been losing track.

I was just looking for some more outside the beltway types instead we see President-Elect Obama bringing back the Clinton era gang along with his own from Chicago, does this sound familiar anyone? 

Perhaps I dare say like the appointments the exiting President made?     

The change is in the fact that the government will be in the hands of tough, intelligent, competent operators, rather than the gang that can't shoot straight.  Replacing Rice with Clinton, Ashcroft/Gonzales/Mukasey (has he done anything of note in the last two years) with Holder, replacing Dick Cheney with Joe Biden...how is this not change?

[The Mikado]

The change is in the fact that the government will be in the hands of tough, intelligent, competent operators, rather than the gang that can't shoot straight.  Replacing Rice with Clinton, Ashcroft/Gonzales/Mukasey (has he done anything of note in the last two years) with Holder, replacing Dick Cheney with Joe Biden...how is this not change?

Gonzales makes Ashcroft look very good by comparison. Much as Bush has done much to burnish his father's legacy by distracting attention with his own incompetence.

Wouldn't disagree with either of those...and John Ashcroft's actually a decent fellow (if gruff and rather unapproachable).  But what I was getting at is that I don't understand why people don't realize that this is change.  Like you pointed out, Obama's choosing hard-nosed, intelligent, strong, independent people.  People who know how to run the government running the government...it's hard to imagine more of a breath of fresh air than that.