EXCLUSIVE: Podesta Announces He Will Not Be Joining New Obama Administration
EXCLUSIVE: Podesta Announces He Will Not Be Joining New Obama Administration
Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new transition team, which includes Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) President and CEO John Podesta as one of three co-chairs.
The media have floated the possibility that Podesta might serve in various roles in the Obama administration, including Energy Secretary and chief of staff. But today in an internal memo to CAPAF staff, Podesta put those rumors to rest. Announcing that he is taking a temporary leave of absence to fulfill his transition duties, Podesta said that he has no plans to join the Obama administration:
I am honored to have been asked to help organize the President-elect’s transition to a new government. For this purpose, I am taking a temporary leave of absence during the transition period. As I have advised Senator Obama and the Boards of CAP and CAPAF, I will not be joining the new Administration and will return to American Progress after the transition ends.
Launched in 2003, CAP’s mission has been to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, develop thoughtful policy proposals, and engage in the war of ideas with conservatives. Podesta formerly served as President Clinton’s chief of staff and is a professor at Georgetown University. He also recently released a progressive blueprint for the next administration entitled, The Power of Progress: How America’s Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country.
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No, he's not going to pull a Cheney. Good for you John!
Rupture, glad to see you made it through the night last evening without your soul exploding!
November 5th, 2008 at 6:00 pmPoor Darryl...it must really suck to be a Republican troll today.
Back on topic: We need watchdogs outside the administration too. Any administration. Happy to have John continue to do what he does.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:02 pmOh poor little RupturedRectal is sad today. Must suck to be such a smuck.
You are loathsome little worm and should go to your closet and flog yourself for a couple of hours, it'll make the gay go away.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:04 pmRaptureReady Says:
Get off the boat before it sinks.
How could a boat sink before it sails?
The ass-backwards GOP mentality for you.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pmRaptureReady Says:
Get off the boat before it sinks.
ROTFL, why would you post a message for George Bush on this thread? Besides it's too late, the GOP BOAT has ALREADY SUNK! You're head is just SO FAT bloated with SH*T that you DIDN'T KNOW IT!! ROTFL!!
So much for that SKY GOD of yours and that PERSONAL PROPHECY you keep hearing! You SURE it's your GOD and not just the PSYCHOTIC DELUSION of a MAD FOOL you hear in your head? Because unlike you, I ALREADY KNOW THE TRUTHFUL ANSWER to that QUESTION!! ROTFL - MORON!
November 5th, 2008 at 6:36 pmThank you John Podesta for your honest hard work and cutting edge thinking !You have helped to inspire many. Your work through CAP and think Progress has done wonders toward creating a generation of political activists poised to bring the best of democratic ideals into the future .
November 5th, 2008 at 6:37 pmThank you .
There is much yet to be done , the real task at hand , the repair of our democracy is only prelude to the real challenges ahead .The United States IS the world ! The hope of human unity , of an ideology that transcends national and racial boundaries is the only real hope for our planet .
November 5th, 2008 at 6:47 pmi heard on the XM, AP radio news that he was joinging the transition team... no mention of the admin...
i'd hate to lose him from CAP, frankly...
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how 'bout this?
Scarborough: Choosing Rahm Emanuel like choosing Tom Delay
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/scarborough-choosing-rahm-emanuel-choosing-t
whew!
November 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pmSo one of the people who help make the ThinkProgress site the very best there is will stay there?
November 5th, 2008 at 7:24 pmGood.
Only a complete megalomaniacal bastard, aka. Republican (hi, Dick Cheney!) would name himself to a position he was in charge of filling.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:45 pmProgressives......nothing more than hate monger liberals! If you do not agree with their viewpoints, you are viciously attacked behind the scenes!
March 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pmCase in point.......O'Reilly, BecK, Rush, Coulter, Ingrams, Hannity, etc.
You folks can not handle the truth, so you use smear tactics to minimize your opponents........not by telling the truth, but by your lies!!!
Podesta is a traitor to conservatism, American values, and liberty! He is a back sliding wanna be from a purgery plagued Clinton administration.
You folks better hope the economic climate changes soon, or your "change" machine will be empty, and 2013 will be a huge sweep back to the conservative values this country realized they almost voted away in 2008!
My your Socialistic *sses squirm until 2013!!
I'm outta here to detox myself from the poison of this website!!