William Daley: "I believe in Third Way: pro-market, strong on security, and seeking common ground"

http://www.thirdway.org/press_releases/119

William Daley to Join Third Way
Former Commerce Secretary, Gore 2000 Chair & Obama-Biden Transition Advisor joins Board of Trustees
July 16, 2010

(Washington, DC) – Third Way announced today that William Daley—former US Secretary of Commerce, Chairman of the Gore 2000 campaign, advisor to the Obama-Biden transition, and Midwest Chairman of JPMorgan Chase—has joined Third Way’s Board of Trustees. Daley joins a Board that includes Chairman Emeritus Bernard Schwartz (former Chairman and CEO of Loral Space & Communications), Chairman John Vogelstein (former president of Warburg Pincus and current Chairman of the NYC Ballet), Reynold Levy (president of the Lincoln Center), Joe Flom (co-founder of Skadden Aarps, featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers), Daniel Loeb (CEO of Third Point), Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy (USA ret.), Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (former Secretary of the Cabinet for President Clinton) and Susan McCue (former Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid).

Secretary Daley said: “I believe in Third Way’s unique mission—advancing moderate ideas, challenging orthodoxies, and building a big tent political movement that can attract an enduring majority. Their views are right for both campaigning and governing: pro-market, strong on security, and seeking common ground on culture issues. Third Way is doing exactly the work that we must do—with the White House, Congress and statehouses—if we’re going to own the center of American politics and create the kind of pragmatic change the country wants.” Mr. Daley continued: “We’ve really got to listen carefully to the public. Voters are not re-embracing conservative ideology. But we must acknowledge that the left’s agenda has not won the support of a majority of Americans—and, based on that recognition, we must steer a more moderate course. Third Way is playing a central role in helping us navigate that course.”

Jonathan Cowan, President of Third Way, said: “We are thrilled to have Secretary Daley become a Trustee and take on a leadership role with Third Way. There are few Americans with richer policy experience or a sharper political mind than Bill Daley. By joining Third Way, he is strengthening the voice of moderates and deepening our ability to advance a new generation of moderate ideas. We are honored that he has chosen to invest his time and intellectual energy into Third Way, and we’re excited about the impact his leadership will have.” Third Way Board Chairman John Vogelstein added: “Bill will play a significant role in helping Third Way create and promote an economic growth agenda—reducing deficits, reforming entitlements, increasing exports, and driving investments in infrastructure and innovation. No one has better experience to bring to this task—as Commerce Secretary he oversaw a period of extraordinary economic prosperity, expanded trade and fiscal discipline.”

Mr. Daley currently serves as Midwest Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. He sits on the board of Boeing Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, Northwestern University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post in late 2009, he warned of a rising popular dissatisfaction with the far left and noted that his party could “recover its political footing” by beginning “to steer a more moderate course on the key issues of the day, from health care to the economy to the environment to Afghanistan.”

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It is only good for a few . Corporations. People lose everything. Get the clintons out of the Obama administration before the country is flushed. WE are already in the shi----.

:sarcasm: of course.

Well they can't do to much more damage to the manufacturing sect as most of it is in either Mexico or China already.

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Fuck it all. I knocked on doors for this shit??

Things aren't looking so good from here, either.

Way back when I was campaigning for Obama, one factor I sensed about his personality made me hesitate. Obama displays an almost provincial insularity. He seldom steps outside his personal comfort zone.

Obama appears to be closing himself in. I'm an INTJ on the Myers Briggs personality test. I used to think Obama was an extravert but I'm beginning to wonder if he's receding and retreating in the face of opposition. Obama has had a hard time reaching out to the South. And i don't mean solely the white South, either. His choice of Daley looks as though he needs a 'daddy figure' to help him play tough.

Daley is just plain repulsive. Maybe not to the people up in Chicago. But who knows? If Daley is as conservative as he seems...we're not going to be seeing much hope or change. But I'll keep hoping for the best. ;)

that's even worse. they say 'you can have your social issues (because they don't cost us any money)...but we get the economy...ALL OF IT.' they want to privatize as much of the public sector as possible...all social programs including education, medicare, and social security. at least the conservatives are unattractive because of their stone-aged social policies. these guys sweet talk you with shit like DADT repeal (fyi i think that's a good thing...but not something to trade the public sector for), as they're literally firing you, busting your union, selling your house, and sending your job overseas.

banking and driving people to the polls to vote for this shit?

Leader. NOT more pandering to the amorphous middle and meandering to the radical right

People calling themselves democrats are at the lowest point since 1988. Interestingly, 1988 was the year that democratic party gave the Ronald Reagan weary country one Michael Dukakis and got it's head handed to it. Face it, republicans out messaged democrats during the 2008-2010 period, even as the republican message was BS. Not that republicans have power and are tripping over their feet, democrats need strong policy and strategic minds to take advantage of every republican misstep.

And please, no moonbeams shooting all over the computer screen.

Daley is an excellent choice. Daley comes to the role with experience at setting democratic policy and insight into business. Daley's business experience does not disqualify him for the role that President Obama has selected him for. Daley may well prove to be a disappointment, but making that assertion heads up as the left has done is absurd.

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like poisonous mushrooms out of cow pies!

That shit-stained, arrogant, deceptive pus of an agenda has an eerie, Fascist flavors on a Rublicone taste to it.

Shivers go up my spine as to how far we are into this now.

Note the gratuitous jab at the Left and lofty reference to saving the Party from us.

What does this signal about Obama? I think we know the answer.

God bless Barack Obama for hiring Mr. Daley! Do we dare hope that finally, after all these years, all the untold misery and the plague of institutionalized injustice, that soon we will see the Big Money Boyz get a fair shake out of the system? The wealthy won't be kept down much longer.

Accept only gratuitous brand jabs. If your vendor tries to steer you to another product, kick him in the nards.

you mean how a centrist president gets called a socialist?

To embrace such hugely "popular" policies as more free trade deals, more tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and cuts to entitlements. Cuz, you know, that's where the people are. :sarcasm:

Dick.

Military Industrial Complex whatever they want, and let the poorly informed people fight over the scraps since they are going to be paying for .1 and .2.
Great. FACEPALM!

Which costs us $414 Billion with a B in FY2010 to service.

Mr. Daley.

When he says compromise, he means negotiating over things he never had a right to.

He's a GOP-Lite.

format..... Strong on Terror..... And they of course get to define the ever changing idea of what that is and whom are the terrorits...... I will have to look at this third way idea... Can't say I really understand it.... Or that I know who Johnathan Cowan is.....

once you "reform entitlements" your big box friends and medicare suppliers will go out of business seeing as they depend on SS and medicare for a huge part of their business.

"third way" = Orwellian term for self-defeating republican

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big business, big war, and cutting of social services.

Offense intended for those who don't see a problem with that.

This groupthink crap has GOT to stop!

People who deny reality belong in a mental hospital, not in the highest places of our government.
Heck, I could believe utterly that the sun rises at midnight, but my beliefs won't make it true!
Reach across the aisle and withdraw a bleeding stump is all they'll get;
and I think they'll still go on with their 'we can work together when those who they want to work with have made it perfectly clear, time and time again, that their only goal is to destroy their opposition!


Additionally, their "Security" is no equal trade-off with Liberty!

Another "Tory Democrat", awesome. :sarcasm:

He is a rotten, big-time Wall Street banker...

AND...

He is a corrupt Chicago politician...

AND...

He is totally, completely full-of-shit.

You couldn't do better than this guy. This took real work.

What, is anyone surprised?

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administration has had only two years to turn things around, it's going to take awhile to see if some of Bush's ideas are still valid! Let the bipartisan stuff play out, and then the Republicans will see how they've been fooled! This is the beginning of the chess endgame right here! It's going to start turning around any day now! Any day!

give BHO a chance, more time, blah, blah, blah... this once again proves who he is and what he supports. My grandfather always warned us as kids about the company we kept being a reflection of us. Well same holds true for BHO. His choices of advisors and inner circlers from day one (Geithner, Summers...) have told the story and the saga, the same sorry saga, continues with daley replacing Rahm :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Barack Obama will receive the lowest % of the popular vote AND the electoral vote of any incumbent president in history in 2012.

he won't do much for the rest of his time in office much like Clinton.

Plus he comes from a background of double corruption. Perfect for Barack Obama. Too bad Daley is not also a hate preaching 'Minister' then he'd be the Obama Trifecta.

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More of the same :puke:

Daley has impeccable democratic credentials and exceptional grasp of public policy. And gasp, gasp, Daley has credibility in the business community that will neutralize the power of republicans there.

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The march to the Rainbow Reagan Party continues to pick up steam.

...you are not what Obama spoke of when he mentioned "Change We Can Believe In."

about fucking over the common man. These assholes have gangstered our party and we have to take it back. Absolutely no support for the DLC under any circumstances.

of Bill Daley. How does that go down, left?

some people don't simply adopt the opinions of party spokesmen. Crazy, I know.

the appointment of Daley will help to really shut down any of that damned activism that Elizabeth Warren might think up. Getting to sound more and more like she was just a sop to the progressives, that the administration didn't really think she would be able to break into the guys club. She flexed a little of her savvy and determination and needs to be shut down. These two appointments - people who opposed her ideas - will do that quite effectively.

(for all but the most willfully obtuse).

at least not without giving away too much ground. In the long run though, this doesn't matter because Emmanuel was one too.

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the administration. Just great.

No doubt he'll be looking for what's in the couch cushions before long (lest the rich and big business be forced to...gasp...SACRIFICE)

It's all of a piece, one thing about this Administration, it is consistent, consistently reactionary.

That 'hope' stuff is very bad medicine, it completely destroys clarity.

I'm still holding on to the straw that Dean thinks he's a good choice. I may drown holding that thin straw.

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change it's rules, or it's name. :banghead:

I've seen this call to a fake center before, except it is really a foothold between a fake handle and what looks like land only it is instead just beyond the edge of a cliff.

AKA maintaining the capitalist status quo...