Change = Clinton Cronies.

Funny, but I recall the legions of Obamamessiah backers claiming that an Obama-Clinton ticket would undermine his image of bringing “change” to Washington; “New Politics” and all that recycled junk.

Low and behold, “Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to transition or staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one of the members of his 12-person Transition Advisory Board and both of his White House staff choices.” That includes, of course, Rahm Emanuel, and possibly (probably) now a Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

This is change?

Throw in the name Gregory Craig as White House Chief Counsel. Craig’s resume?

In the early 1980s, [Craig] was an attorney for John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan and three others. Craig helped put together an insanity defense that led to Hinckley’s acquittal. Nine years later, he advised Ted Kennedy in the Palm Beach rape case involving the senator and his nephew, William Kennedy Smith. …

Craig orchestrated a 1984 [Senate] hearing for Kennedy on alleged human-rights abuses committed by Nicaragua’s rebels, the Contras. He worked with groups closely tied to the Sandinista regime to find witnesses for the forum, which led to a round of anti-contra news coverage in the U.S. Soon afterward, however, Joshua Muravchik, currently of the American Enterprise Institute, exposed a fraud: The most compelling witnesses — three Miskito Indians — had been served up by the Sandinistas.

And a fourth participant, Father Alfredo Gundrum, an American priest living in Nicaragua, had been asked to play the role of honest broker — to place the testimony “into some kind of perspective,” as Kennedy put it. Gundrum, described as “totally apolitical” in background material distributed by Kennedy’s staff, told of how the Contras launched vicious raids on Indian villages “almost every day.” Yet Gundrum had been the subject of a San Francisco newspaper article just one month before the hearing. He was photographed standing before his church with a Soviet-made rifle in his hands and quoted as saying, “To me it was a day of grace the day the Sandinistas took over, and I really mean it.”

Craig is even tied to the Elian Gonzalez case.

Of course, a lot of people on the Left think going back to the 1990s would be great.

Maybe, but I guess it depends how you remember the 1990s. For instance, maybe you remember the IT boom. Then again, maybe you remember the peace that never was.