{"id":45838,"date":"2021-01-01T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45838"},"modified":"2021-01-01T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T01:41:10","slug":"obama-2-0-ok-whats-wrong-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45838","title":{"rendered":"Obama 2.0? OK, what&#8217;s wrong with that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Obama%20%23pandemic%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Obama-and-Biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36716\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Obama-and-Biden-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Obama-and-Biden-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Obama-and-Biden-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Obama-and-Biden-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hearing from right-wing media pundits and other critics of President-elect Biden that his Cabinet and top staffers comprise too many folks from the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have expressed a concern about that, but I have to ask: Why is that necessarily a <em>bad thing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden served as vice president for President Obama&#8217;s two successful terms. He knows the players who comprised his team. Biden knows their strengths. He wants to parlay those strengths toward building a team of his own.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration, let us remember, took office in the midst of the Great Recession. The nation&#8217;s economy was in free fall, it was collapsing and President Obama needed to act immediately to help rescue it from permanent ruin.<\/p>\n<p>The team he assembled, along with Joe Biden, got the job done.<\/p>\n<p>So, the new president wants to rely on their knowledge, their experience and their skill to help him restore a nation beset by new economic trouble and, oh\u00a0 yes, that damn pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s OK with me.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Obama%20%23pandemic%20%40JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com We&#8217;re hearing from right-wing media pundits and other critics of President-elect Biden that his Cabinet and top staffers comprise too many folks from the Obama administration. Yes, I have expressed a concern about that, but I have to ask: Why is that necessarily a bad thing? Biden served as vice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama 2.0? 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