It looks like the Clinton’s and Barack Obama have buried the hatchet with his new transition team being dominated by FOB’s.

From the Politico.

Here’s how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has
begun: Barack Obama’s aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in
the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington, D.C.—and Clintonites
are everywhere.

Obama’s victory in the general election produced what his primary
campaign couldn’t: A swift merger of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic
Party with the Illinois Senator’s self-styled insurgency. The merger
began, during the campaign, in the policy apparatus—which is now
rapidly becoming the governing apparatus.

The absorption of the Clinton government in waiting represents Obama’s
choice not to repeat what he and his advisors see as an early mistake
made by the last two presidents: Attempting to wield power in
Washington through an insular campaign apparatus new to town.

Obama’s first major appointments have been Democrats who worked for
President Clinton and did not endorse him in the primary: Transition
chief John Podesta and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who will be White House chief
of staff, stayed neutral, and Ron Klain, who will be Joe Biden’s chief
of staff, backed Biden. Obama, advisors told Politico, may even be
weighing offering Hillary Clinton herself the Cabinet plum of Secretary
of State.

The change Obama spoke about must be a change to a third Clinton administration by the looks of it.

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