A Kerry team: a Clinton touch

[JoFerret]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/business/28kerry.html

What is striking about the candidate's economics team is that all of its members - not to mention nearly every adviser they are reaching out to - served the Clinton administration in one way or another. Does that mean Kerry economics will be Clinton redux?

Ask the four team members that question and they hesitate. The challenges are different, they say. Job creation is a much more crucial issue than it was in Clinton's day, particularly the big decline in manufacturing jobs during the Bush years and the growing tendency to send sophisticated work abroad.

"Differing economic circumstances rightly bring out different priorities," Mr. Sperling said.

Even so, the fixes that Mr. Kerry and his core economic advisers are beginning to offer are clearly rooted in Clinton economics, which is resolutely centrist. Fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction, hallmarks of the Clinton years, are bedrock orthodoxy in the Kerry camp, too.>>
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[mobuto]

1. Its a great article

[jean]

2. This is so reassuring. You can bet the Kerry team will be prepared to take

over all pressing issues and hit the ground running once he's sworn in. There will be none of this "we were still getting our people in place..." 9,10,11 months later like the b*sh crowd.

They are fleshing out policies now to handle everything effectively from day one. That is my fervent hope.