Beans And Cornbread

Beans and Cornbread had a fight, or in this case, Double G and BooMan.

BooMan on one hand believes that Obama's appointments give him at least the opportunity to reform the system from within by co-opting the people who have largely run it: Clinton appointees like Eric Holder and Larry Summers, influential establishment figures like Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner, and respected rivals like Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates.

On the other hand, Double G believes Obama's overly pragmatic, Serious Centrist Village-approved appointments are an indication that Obama will indeed turn into just another Washington politician, triangulating Clinton-style into a disaster that will bring heartbreak and disappointment as the GOP attacks his centrist approach as liberal insanity, surrounds him and destroys his agenda piece by piece.

Both sides have excellent points. We'll just have to wait until January 20 to see what Obama actually DOES.