Why this new meme about "Most Qualified People?" [View All]

[Truth2Tell]

What's with this new meme on DU about "competence" only when it comes to Obama appointments?

Ability, qualifications and experience only," as one OP scolds? This thing is everywhere I turn on this board.

Forget ideology. Forget values. Forget loyalty. Forget commitment to the agenda on which the new President ran. What's up with this?

Could it be that Obama is almost certainly going to appoint some right-wing Dems and/or Republicans to his cabinet and therefore the establishment apologists need a rationalization?

Is the excuse for shunning the liberal/populist majority of the nation going to be that Obama is simply choosing the "most qualified" people and behaving in a so-called "post-partisan" way?

Will the apologists now lecture liberals that no one "deserves" a cabinet post and that they should be driven by competence and not "politics", when in fact the RW choices will be made for reasons equally or more political?

Is this what we are seeing?

:shrug: