Chevron is still in the White House

[emad]

December 11, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama introduced his principal national-security Cabinet selections to the world recently and left no doubt that he intends to start his administration on a war footing. Perhaps the least well known among them is retired Marine Gen. James Jones, Obama's pick for national security adviser. The position is crucial — think of the power that Henry Kissinger wielded in Richard Nixon's White House. A look into who James Jones is sheds a little light on the Obama campaign's promise of "Change We Can Believe In."

Jones is the former supreme allied commander of NATO. He is president and chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy. The institute has been criticized by environmental groups for, among other things, calling for the immediate expansion of domestic oil and gas production and issuing reports that challenged the use of the Clean Air Act to combat global warming.

Recently retired from the military, Jones has parlayed his 40-year military career into several corporate directorships. Among them is Cross Match Technologies, which makes biometric identification equipment. More germane to Jones' forthcoming role in Obama's inner circle, though, might be Jones' seat as a director of Boeing, a weapons manufacturer, and as a director of Chevron, an oil giant.

Chevron has already sent one of its directors to the White House: Condoleezza Rice. So now Chevron has a new person at the highest level of the executive branch. With Robert Gates also keeping his job as secretary of defense, maybe Obama should change his slogan to "Continuity We Can Believe In."

http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-ed_agoodman_1211dec11,0,7205646.story

[lurky]

1. U.S. Chamber of Commerce?

Oh, Barack, keep an eye on this guy...

[4_TN_TITANS]

2. As suspicious as I am

I'm trying to tell myself that you gotta start somewhere and just can't waltz into the White House without people who have some experience.

As long as Big O can hold them to his agenda instead of their own, we should be okay.

[acmavm]

3. CHANGE we can believe in. ***snark***