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[JCanete]

38. This is politics. Every cabinet position that is filled is a consideration of politics. Each is

often taken as either an appeasement or slap in the face to somebody. Please don't tell me Obama picked people from the tip top of the banking industry to run the hen house entirely out of idealism. He is a politician, with ideals and goals that all require politicking, and that does mean making deals. People in Washington make deals. I would never suggest that anything that the Clinton and Obama team discussed, or whatever overtures were hinted at in conversations, would rise to the level of something illegal or even particularly shady. Conversations with the runner up are in a lot of ways, recognitions of that person's value to the party. Making that person happy is about recognizing not that person in a vacuum, but the voters who are behind that person. That person is representing those voters in this negotiation. How is this different than any other part of the governing process?