Obama's Chief Of Staff: Tom Daschle?

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Update 10/28

The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder runs rumored intelligence about the Obama cabinet and reports to have received this from a reader regarding Daschle.

I interned with the campaign this summer. Every Friday we would have intern lunches and they would pull in someone big (or semi big to talk to us and take questions), Favreau, Desio, and Pete Rouse etc. I heard Rouse say when asked a question about Obama's Chief of Staff that "I could see Senator Daschle in that role".

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An early Obama supporter, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, has served as one of the national co-chairs for Obama's presidential campaign since 2007. As a prominent campaign surrogate and advisor, his possible role as chief of staff has been greatly discussed in the media.

The New Republic mentioned the possibility of Daschle as chief of staff all the way back in May.

The New York Times recently put Daschle at the top of the chief of staff short list with the caveat that the choice "could be complicated because Mr. Daschle's wife is a lobbyist."

A recent New York magazine article called Daschle's shot at being White House Chief of Staff "decent."

Comments

[littleredhen]

NO TO DASCHLE: THE WIMP PRESIDED OVER ALL THE DEM WIMPS WHO BENT OVER FOR BUSHIES WAR. NO NO NO WE DESPISE HIM. NO SPINE. THAT IS WHY HE WAS DUMPED. and his wife is a lobbyist - NO forget it.

[dixychik]

Daschle GAVE George Bush the war in Iraq ... handed it to him on a platter, along with Dick Gephardt, and then hugged Bush in the Rose Garden after stabbing us all in the back. He was thrown out of Congress, not only because he voted to authorize the war, but because he talked others in the Senate into joining him. Obama needs to send him packing, and the country needs to reject him as ANY part of our government forevermore. His state threw him out of office, and this miserable failure does not deserve to be installed back into our government because he cozied up to Obama.

[yankee452]

Isn't that Rahm Emmanuel in the picture?

[norcalstacey]

Yes, you're right.