William Daley: "I believe in Third Way: pro-market, strong on security, and seeking common ground"

[somone]

http://www.thirdway.org/press_releases/119

William Daley to Join Third Way
Former Commerce Secretary, Gore 2000 Chair & Obama-Biden Transition Advisor joins Board of Trustees
July 16, 2010

(Washington, DC) – Third Way announced today that William Daley—former US Secretary of Commerce, Chairman of the Gore 2000 campaign, advisor to the Obama-Biden transition, and Midwest Chairman of JPMorgan Chase—has joined Third Way’s Board of Trustees. Daley joins a Board that includes Chairman Emeritus Bernard Schwartz (former Chairman and CEO of Loral Space & Communications), Chairman John Vogelstein (former president of Warburg Pincus and current Chairman of the NYC Ballet), Reynold Levy (president of the Lincoln Center), Joe Flom (co-founder of Skadden Aarps, featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers), Daniel Loeb (CEO of Third Point), Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy (USA ret.), Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (former Secretary of the Cabinet for President Clinton) and Susan McCue (former Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid).

Secretary Daley said: “I believe in Third Way’s unique mission—advancing moderate ideas, challenging orthodoxies, and building a big tent political movement that can attract an enduring majority. Their views are right for both campaigning and governing: pro-market, strong on security, and seeking common ground on culture issues. Third Way is doing exactly the work that we must do—with the White House, Congress and statehouses—if we’re going to own the center of American politics and create the kind of pragmatic change the country wants.” Mr. Daley continued: “We’ve really got to listen carefully to the public. Voters are not re-embracing conservative ideology. But we must acknowledge that the left’s agenda has not won the support of a majority of Americans—and, based on that recognition, we must steer a more moderate course. Third Way is playing a central role in helping us navigate that course.”

Jonathan Cowan, President of Third Way, said: “We are thrilled to have Secretary Daley become a Trustee and take on a leadership role with Third Way. There are few Americans with richer policy experience or a sharper political mind than Bill Daley. By joining Third Way, he is strengthening the voice of moderates and deepening our ability to advance a new generation of moderate ideas. We are honored that he has chosen to invest his time and intellectual energy into Third Way, and we’re excited about the impact his leadership will have.” Third Way Board Chairman John Vogelstein added: “Bill will play a significant role in helping Third Way create and promote an economic growth agenda—reducing deficits, reforming entitlements, increasing exports, and driving investments in infrastructure and innovation. No one has better experience to bring to this task—as Commerce Secretary he oversaw a period of extraordinary economic prosperity, expanded trade and fiscal discipline.”

Mr. Daley currently serves as Midwest Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. He sits on the board of Boeing Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, Northwestern University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post in late 2009, he warned of a rising popular dissatisfaction with the far left and noted that his party could “recover its political footing” by beginning “to steer a more moderate course on the key issues of the day, from health care to the economy to the environment to Afghanistan.”

[hlthe2b]

1. DLC (or worse) all the way...

:eyes:

[molly77]

76. Third Way is clinton's way

It is only good for a few . Corporations. People lose everything. Get the clintons out of the Obama administration before the country is flushed. WE are already in the shi----.

[yourout]

2. Great..........

:sarcasm: of course.

Well they can't do to much more damage to the manufacturing sect as most of it is in either Mexico or China already.

[muffin1]

3. Disgusting.

:puke:

[Hannah Bell]

4. fuck daley & fuck jpm

[Dappleganger]

5. FUCK it.

Fuck it all. I knocked on doors for this shit??

[Mimosa]

15. Face palm here, too, Dappleganger.

Things aren't looking so good from here, either.

Way back when I was campaigning for Obama, one factor I sensed about his personality made me hesitate. Obama displays an almost provincial insularity. He seldom steps outside his personal comfort zone.

Obama appears to be closing himself in. I'm an INTJ on the Myers Briggs personality test. I used to think Obama was an extravert but I'm beginning to wonder if he's receding and retreating in the face of opposition. Obama has had a hard time reaching out to the South. And i don't mean solely the white South, either. His choice of Daley looks as though he needs a 'daddy figure' to help him play tough.

Daley is just plain repulsive. Maybe not to the people up in Chicago. But who knows? If Daley is as conservative as he seems...we're not going to be seeing much hope or change. But I'll keep hoping for the best. ;)

[rapturedbyrobots]

69. he's not conservative...he's neoliberal

that's even worse. they say 'you can have your social issues (because they don't cost us any money)...but we get the economy...ALL OF IT.' they want to privatize as much of the public sector as possible...all social programs including education, medicare, and social security. at least the conservatives are unattractive because of their stone-aged social policies. these guys sweet talk you with shit like DADT repeal (fyi i think that's a good thing...but not something to trade the public sector for), as they're literally firing you, busting your union, selling your house, and sending your job overseas.

[tnlefty]

62. I spent many hour away from home phone

banking and driving people to the polls to vote for this shit?

[tavalon]

78. Yes We Did

[harun]

6. Welcome to the full embrace of the Corporate Representative Republic.

[Vincardog]

7. More of the ReTHUGliKLAN light BS that we do NOT need. What this country needs is a REAL Liberal

Leader. NOT more pandering to the amorphous middle and meandering to the radical right

[bluestate10]

47. Huh?

People calling themselves democrats are at the lowest point since 1988. Interestingly, 1988 was the year that democratic party gave the Ronald Reagan weary country one Michael Dukakis and got it's head handed to it. Face it, republicans out messaged democrats during the 2008-2010 period, even as the republican message was BS. Not that republicans have power and are tripping over their feet, democrats need strong policy and strategic minds to take advantage of every republican misstep.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Blah.

[bluestate10]

51. And what rational alternative do you suggest.

And please, no moonbeams shooting all over the computer screen.

Daley is an excellent choice. Daley comes to the role with experience at setting democratic policy and insight into business. Daley's business experience does not disqualify him for the role that President Obama has selected him for. Daley may well prove to be a disappointment, but making that assertion heads up as the left has done is absurd.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

81. And that's important because (BIG) business is good!!!!

:eyes:

[Newest Reality]

9. Wow, the MiniTruth rhetoric is popping-up

like poisonous mushrooms out of cow pies!

That shit-stained, arrogant, deceptive pus of an agenda has an eerie, Fascist flavors on a Rublicone taste to it.

Shivers go up my spine as to how far we are into this now.

[leveymg]

10. Third Way - Bipartisan radical centrist - In other words, not a Democrat

Note the gratuitous jab at the Left and lofty reference to saving the Party from us.

What does this signal about Obama? I think we know the answer.

[gratuitous]

34. No, this is a gratuitous jab

God bless Barack Obama for hiring Mr. Daley! Do we dare hope that finally, after all these years, all the untold misery and the plague of institutionalized injustice, that soon we will see the Big Money Boyz get a fair shake out of the system? The wealthy won't be kept down much longer.

Accept only gratuitous brand jabs. If your vendor tries to steer you to another product, kick him in the nards.

[leveymg]

71. ! KICK ;-) KICK 'EM AGAIN !

[deminks]

11. DLC scum. Third Way = DLC = Chamber of Commerce. This was the deal all along, right O?

[WinkyDink]

68. The Fast-Track deal, one might add.

[Bluebear]

70. +

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Unfortunately, so does his new boss.

[yodermon]

13. "rising popular dissatisfaction with the far left"

you mean how a centrist president gets called a socialist?

[Hello_Kitty]

23. And of course the answer will be

To embrace such hugely "popular" policies as more free trade deals, more tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and cuts to entitlements. Cuz, you know, that's where the people are. :sarcasm:

[GeorgeGist]

27. Project much ...

Dick.

[Desertrose]

14. Just peachy....

[Bonhomme Richard]

16. Translation: Give Wall Street whatever it wants, give the......

Military Industrial Complex whatever they want, and let the poorly informed people fight over the scraps since they are going to be paying for .1 and .2.
Great. FACEPALM!

[Octafish]

29. + 14 Trillion

Which costs us $414 Billion with a B in FY2010 to service.

[mmonk]

17. The only way the Republicans will like you guys is if you join them,

Mr. Daley.

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. Groan. We know all about it.

When he says compromise, he means negotiating over things he never had a right to.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Oh, Lord, spare me

He's a GOP-Lite.

[appal_jack]

59. More like GOP heavy. n/t

[midnight]

20. Essentially the PTB are still running the show with the same old

format..... Strong on Terror..... And they of course get to define the ever changing idea of what that is and whom are the terrorits...... I will have to look at this third way idea... Can't say I really understand it.... Or that I know who Johnathan Cowan is.....

[corpseratemedia]

21. you already got rid of jobs, which reduced profits, which reduced budgets for infrastructure, and

once you "reform entitlements" your big box friends and medicare suppliers will go out of business seeing as they depend on SS and medicare for a huge part of their business.

"third way" = Orwellian term for self-defeating republican

[jwirr]

22. Business as usual.

[AspenRose]

24. We are screwed

:banghead:

[BlueJac]

25. The Turd way is what we are getting now.......

big business, big war, and cutting of social services.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Gag.

[Octafish]

28. Gosh. Something's wrong with my voting machine. I hit ''Democrat'' and out popped "Republican.''

Offense intended for those who don't see a problem with that.

[mmonk]

35. LOL

[Cherchez la Femme]

30. Jay-sus Christ, another one?!

This groupthink crap has GOT to stop!

People who deny reality belong in a mental hospital, not in the highest places of our government.
Heck, I could believe utterly that the sun rises at midnight, but my beliefs won't make it true!
Reach across the aisle and withdraw a bleeding stump is all they'll get;
and I think they'll still go on with their 'we can work together when those who they want to work with have made it perfectly clear, time and time again, that their only goal is to destroy their opposition!


Additionally, their "Security" is no equal trade-off with Liberty!

[Starry Messenger]

31. Neoliberalism: it's what's for breakfast!

Another "Tory Democrat", awesome. :sarcasm:

[JoseGaspar]

32. wow... he's a three-fer.

He is a rotten, big-time Wall Street banker...

AND...

He is a corrupt Chicago politician...

AND...

He is totally, completely full-of-shit.

You couldn't do better than this guy. This took real work.

[Smashcut]

33. The banality of corporate evil, redux #1342

What, is anyone surprised?

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[Brickbat]

38. C'mom, peeps! Give him a day to get into his job, m'kay? Past isn't precedent, after all! This

administration has had only two years to turn things around, it's going to take awhile to see if some of Bush's ideas are still valid! Let the bipartisan stuff play out, and then the Republicans will see how they've been fooled! This is the beginning of the chess endgame right here! It's going to start turning around any day now! Any day!

[Carolina]

39. to all those who have said

give BHO a chance, more time, blah, blah, blah... this once again proves who he is and what he supports. My grandfather always warned us as kids about the company we kept being a reflection of us. Well same holds true for BHO. His choices of advisors and inner circlers from day one (Geithner, Summers...) have told the story and the saga, the same sorry saga, continues with daley replacing Rahm :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[xchrom]

40. recommend

[Doctor_J]

41. Prediction:

Barack Obama will receive the lowest % of the popular vote AND the electoral vote of any incumbent president in history in 2012.

[craigmatic]

61. He'll win probably by a wide margin but he won't have any coat tails and as a result

he won't do much for the rest of his time in office much like Clinton.

[fascisthunter]

42. great... another fascist

[Bluenorthwest]

43. He soundsd just like a Repulican

Plus he comes from a background of double corruption. Perfect for Barack Obama. Too bad Daley is not also a hate preaching 'Minister' then he'd be the Obama Trifecta.

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[neverforget]

45. Yee Haw!

More of the same :puke:

[bluestate10]

46. Excellent choice President Obama. Go, Go!

Daley has impeccable democratic credentials and exceptional grasp of public policy. And gasp, gasp, Daley has credibility in the business community that will neutralize the power of republicans there.

[slay]

66. I think you left off your /sarcasm tag

:eyes:

[TheKentuckian]

48. Bleh...sounds like a non race/sex obsessed right winger to me.

The march to the Rainbow Reagan Party continues to pick up steam.

[derby378]

49. Heave off, mouthpiece...

...you are not what Obama spoke of when he mentioned "Change We Can Believe In."

[hulka38]

50. At least the Republicans are up front and honest

about fucking over the common man. These assholes have gangstered our party and we have to take it back. Absolutely no support for the DLC under any circumstances.

[bluestate10]

52. Howard Dean is figuratively jumping up and down cheering the choice

of Bill Daley. How does that go down, left?

[Marr]

63. Believe it or not...

some people don't simply adopt the opinions of party spokesmen. Crazy, I know.

[Jakes Progress]

53. Along with Sperling's appointment

the appointment of Daley will help to really shut down any of that damned activism that Elizabeth Warren might think up. Getting to sound more and more like she was just a sop to the progressives, that the administration didn't really think she would be able to break into the guys club. She flexed a little of her savvy and determination and needs to be shut down. These two appointments - people who opposed her ideas - will do that quite effectively.

[Joe Fields]

54. "seeking common ground"= euphemism for dismantling social programs...

[Lorien]

57. And pushing a GOP agenda. nt

[Joe Fields]

55. The "fix" was in, long before Obama took office.

[Enthusiast]

72. I'm inclined to agree. nt

[Lorien]

56. Nail, meet coffin

(for all but the most willfully obtuse).

[Swamp Rat]

58. This is like playing 'whack a DLC mole'

[craigmatic]

60. Oh great this guy is a trianulating new democrat. They don't know how to fight the republicans

at least not without giving away too much ground. In the long run though, this doesn't matter because Emmanuel was one too.

[krispos42]

64. Translation: Moderate Republican n/t

[slay]

65. How bout I give ya my third finger Daley

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[WinkyDink]

67. Spoken like a Republican. isn't a Democrat supposed to be "pro-people"?

[Enthusiast]

73. Another wrong move by

the administration. Just great.

[katnapped]

74. More change we can believe in!

No doubt he'll be looking for what's in the couch cushions before long (lest the rich and big business be forced to...gasp...SACRIFICE)

[blindpig]

75. Why the outrage?

It's all of a piece, one thing about this Administration, it is consistent, consistently reactionary.

That 'hope' stuff is very bad medicine, it completely destroys clarity.

[tavalon]

77. Fuck, he's DLC

I'm still holding on to the straw that Dean thinks he's a good choice. I may drown holding that thin straw.

[Enrique]

79. wealthy corporate executives often do

:shrug:

[whatchamacallit]

80. I predict Obama and cronies will ultimately force DU to

change it's rules, or it's name. :banghead:

[progressoid]

82. That's Changetastic!

[Festivito]

83. Eh? Turd whey: Pro-monied, wrong on security, sinking common ground. Same Old Scheissen.

I've seen this call to a fake center before, except it is really a foothold between a fake handle and what looks like land only it is instead just beyond the edge of a cliff.

[maryf]

84. "advancing moderate ideas"

AKA maintaining the capitalist status quo...