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political appointments in return for election work goes back to George Washington, If you look back at the csars of the Bush Administration you will see the exact same thing going back to the first President ... It is an unfortunate side effect of politics. Now sometimes those appointments turn out to be very effective leaders, other times as we have seen in history, they turn out to be the Karl Rove types ... either way, it is the nature of the beast and certainly not new to Obama or any President for that matter.