Bob Herbert describing his unease at the recent Cabinet appointments made by Barack Obama. Extremely competent, yes; but a bit too ingrained into the inner workings of Washington? Will these minds be truly representative of a new dawn in the power corridors of D.C., a new dawn for the struggling working class of America which has languished so for the last eight years of neglect? Or will it be more of the same, the rich looking out for the rich, the powerful for the powerful?
"What I wonder is whether the members of this team, in addition to their grasp of the issues and success at achieving power, have a real feel for the needs of the people they are supposed to be representing...But the people at the pinnacle of power in Washington are encased in a bubble that makes it extremely hard to hear the voices of those who aren’t already powerful themselves...
Will this new Obama team, as brilliant as it appears to be, begin addressing on day one the interests of those who are not rich and who have not had the ear of those in power?"
