November 10, 2008 at 05:11:30

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-- Paul Volker - former Fed chairman with more on him below;

-- Rahm Emanuel - congressman and incoming White House chief of staff; it's the most important administration post after the president and a Dick Cheney type vice-presidency;

-- Richard Parsons - chairman of Time Warner;

-- Anne Mulcahy - CEO of Xerox;

-- Lawrence Summers - former Treasury secretary with more on him below;

-- Roger Ferguson - CEO of TIAA-CREF financial services;

--John Podesta - transition team head;

-- Robert Reich - former labor secretary; and

-- William Daley - former commerce secretary.

Noticeably absent - anyone representing ordinary people. Workers, homeowners, the unemployed, the disadvantaged, the poor who've been hurt the most by Wall Street's-caused financial crisis now morphed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Their omission is clear evidence where Obama's administration is headed, where his allegiance lies, and what his policy directives will look like. A rigid class society, white supremacism, and neoliberalism are safe in his hands.

-- he's for permanent occupation of Iraq;

-- America's imperial agenda;

-- militarism and foreign wars;

-- new ones against Pakistan; possibly Iran as well;

-- an enlarged military;

-- more troops to Afghanistan;

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