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To: energyplay who wrote (172211)	12/18/2008 8:35:01 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Obama is a smart guy, smart enough to have hired excellent vetters to fill his cabinet with more excellence. What a stunning reversal from the last four years! We'll need them all. The real lesson of the Bush years is that, no matter how fat and happy we are, there just isn't EVER a time we can elect a guy because we'd feel comfortable downing a beer with him.

To: energyplay who wrote (172211)	12/18/2008 8:40:11 AM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

There has to be a question about vetting, as in: did or didn't the administration actually look into Mary's past. Mary's the one that appointed Mark Madoff to the National Adjudicatory Council in 2001, which we have to assume is an oversight on the part of Obama's camp if for no other reason than it's so bloody insane it defies all bounds of logic. And then there's the whispers that Mary didn't really do much at FINRA except make things pretty by protecting the old people from annuity salesmen - and I'm not saying that's not important, I'm just proposing maybe it shouldn't be the chief qualifier for the next chair of the SEC. On the flip side, at NASD she worked through the perilous bid/ask "spreads" BS back in the mid 90's, and "oversaw" the merger between the NYSE regulatory unit and NASD. dealbreaker.com Doubt she's the best pick if you are looking for someone to knock some heads.