Top Clinton Aide John Podesta To Return To White House As Senior Counselor To Obama

[kpete]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and a trusted Democratic operative, will join the White House staff as a senior counselor to President Barack Obama, two persons familiar with the move said late Monday.

Podesta will take his place at the White House at a critical time for Obama as his health care law tries to shake itself off from a disastrous enrollment rollout and as the president seeks to re-establish his agenda going into a midterm election year.

Podesta is the founder and former president of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank with close ties to the White House.

The New York Times first reported Podesta's move. The two persons familiar with the development confirmed it to The Associated Press on the condition they weren't named because the announcement was not official.


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[polichick]

1. At this point, not surprising.

[last1standing]

2. Now he just needs Paul Begala and Dick Morris to complete the set.

I voted for new ideas because the old ones weren't working. But here we are five years later still going down the rabbit hole of kinder, gentler Reaganomics.