Obama plans to nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House OMB

[dkf]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/03/sylvia-matthews-burwell-budget-chief_n_2802794.html

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to nominate Walmart Foundation head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the White House Office of Management and Budget on Monday, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Burwell, 47, is a veteran of Bill Clinton's White House and has helped steer philanthropic efforts while at Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Burwell would replace Jeffrey Zients, who has been serving as acting director at the White House budget office, known by the acronym OMB.

The move will reunite her with another Clinton White House veteran, Jack Lew, who was Clinton's OMB director for a time and was recently confirmed as Obama's treasury secretary.

[datasuspect]

1. i for one welcome our benevolent corporacratic overlords.

si se puede!

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Is this a spoof?

Did you get this from the Onion? Write it yourself?

Good parody!

[dkf]

3. You'd think right?

I don't get it. Does Obama not know how the base feels about Walmart?

[ProSense]

11. What's the catch?

"I don't get it. Does Obama not know how the base feels about Walmart? "

Why exactly are you opposed to this nomination?

[dkf]

12. Walmart, Gates Found. and Bob Rubin...you might as well be waving a red cape in front of a bull.

Excessive provocation for what?

[ProSense]

13. Really odd,

"Walmart, Gates Found. and Bob Rubin...you might as well be waving a red cape in front of a bull. Excessive provocation for what?"

...since you're always arguing in favor of banks: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022434722#post4

[dkf]

14. Outsourcing, teachers and banks.

I can see he hit the trifecta.

[KoKo]

18. Apparently Not...."some are more equal than others."

They get seen and the rest of us are invisible.

[dkf]

5. Goodness she was also part of the Gates Foundation and Chief of Staff to Bob Rubin.

Crazy.

[DevonRex]

32. Goodness, did you spew this BS when Hillary, a former Walmart board member, was nominated

for SoS? Why not? Funny, that.

Personally, I believe Hillary did a great job and will make a fine president, despite those dastardly Walmart ties. Yes, I was poking fun with that dastardly remark. This thread is really stupid and deserves to be made fun of. Heaven forbid the head of a charitable fund work at the WH. And OMG, all these people have ties to the Clintons, too!!!
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[DevonRex]

31. Do you hate Hillary as well, since she was actually on the board and was Obama's SoS?

I didn't see this Walmart bullshit when She was nominated for that position. Where were you then?

[MannyGoldstein]

33. I don't Hillary.

But as a politician, she's only palatable when compared to a Republican or similar.

No, I did not back her for President or SoS.

[DevonRex]

35. If she runs she will be the nominee in 2016. I don't believe Warren would run against her.

At least that's the talk around DC. Hillary was not my first choice in 08 - she was my second. (Thank goodness I trusted my instincts on Edwards.) But I believe she has proven herself to be very good when in a position of power. Much, much better than I had dreamed she could be. Of course SoS is different from Pres. And the Republicans still hate her. She will face as much opposition as Obama except from the racists. Yeah, yeah, they're misogynists as well. But they have daughters, wives so they have to hide it better. I know, believe me. I'm a southern woman by birth, Fundy raised. I know exactly how they sugarcoat it. So does Hillary. She had to deal with them in Arkansas.

But the fact remains that Warren indeed may stay out if Hillary throws her hat in. She knows she's just one of the pack on a level playing field, but she could easily come out ahead with her ideas. It's not level with Hillary in the running. Mrs. Clinton is experienced, extremely popular, and can very quickly get up to speed on Ms. Warren's issues. She most likely agrees with her in large part anyway, after all we've seen over the last 2 decades on Wall Street.

Now, back to these Walmart people. You know as well as I do what's going on. Bill Clinton worked his ass off for Obama's reelection. There are a number of Clinton people showing up in key positions now. Think there might be any connection? It doesn't bother me much. It's politics. You know it, I know it. Everybody should know it. Everybody should have been thinking along these lines every single time they saw Bill on their televisions during the campaign. He's good at what he does. But he's not free. Nor should he be. And it looks as if he didn't want any sort of personal compensation.

Another thing about Walmart, I hardly think there's some plan afoot for it to take over the world. I hear it's not doing very well these days. Selling cheap imported stuff that breaks or gets ruined the first time it's washed seems to have caught up with them. At last.

[hfojvt]

4. let me take my blinders off

[Cal Carpenter]

6. The more things change.....

[amandabeech]

7. Well, some of us aren't the least bit surprised. n/t

[jsr]

8. Well, isn't that special?

Is Grover busy? Nominate him.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. K&R for wider visibility.

Isn't this just swell?

[davidn3600]

10. And yet we get angry when someone says, "both parties are the same."

[bvar22]

15. You will know them by the company they keep.

Does anybody remain unconvinced?

[KoKo]

17. Old Parables, Fables and Proverbs...just never grow old...

They ring true across generations.

[woo me with science]

27. Another day, another crony. nt

[leftstreet]

16. Politicians = Walton Family Greeters n/t

[KoKo]

19. Unemployed America..."Lucky if you can get Walmart Greeter Job..."

[Ikonoklast]

20. Hillary Clinton sat on Walmart's board.

She must be evil, too.


Burwell's job was to GIVE AWAY Walmart money.

EEEEEEVVVVVIIIILLLLLL!!!!!!!

[Heywood J]

21. That money is raised from employees and customers.

Have fun there.

[demwing]

28. so giving it back is...bad?

that don't make no sense!

[ProSense]

22. And evidently, Burwell

"Burwell's job was to GIVE AWAY Walmart money. "

...started there in 2011. Still, the irony is noted: Hillary for President, but an Obama nomination...OMG.

Hey, didn't Hillary work for Obama too?

[Beacool]

30. Yeah, and she got bashed for it endlessly by the same hypocrites

who now probably see nothing wrong with it. When Hillary was on the board Sam Walton was still in charge. It's not the same Wal-Mart anymore where most items are manufactured in China. Wal-Mart's headquarters were in AR and they were a huge job provider for the state (just like Tyson).

Ahhh, politics.......Don't you just love it? It's like being a hooker, you never know in whose bed you'll end up.

[ProSense]

34. Maybe it's

"Yeah, and she got bashed for it endlessly by the same hypocrites who now probably see nothing wrong with it"

...not hypocritical. You do know that Hillary was also appointed to the President's cabinet. As far as I see, Hillary as SOS enjoyed the support of a lot of people.

"When Hillary was on the board Sam Walton was still in charge. "

See, President Obama, who was never on the board of Walmart, is being consistent in his appointments.

[Beacool]

36. No, he just gives them jobs.

Hypocrisy 101.

[99Forever]

23. I just rec'ed my first ever dfk tread.

Thanks President Obama, your support for the "little people" is once again, over-whelming.

[stevenleser]

25. Well, it appears that persons Raison d'être is to attack Democrats and drive a wedge between them

and their supporters. Eventually they are going to find something disagreeable a Democrat has done that you are going to agree with.

[99Forever]

26. As if...

[woo me with science]

24. K&R

[Beacool]

29. Oh no, more disappointment for some.

An evil Wal-Mart denizen will enter the Obama WH.

The irony of it all.........

[woo me with science]

37. kick