BO Picks Daley

President Obama has chosen Bill Daley, son of infamous Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, as his next Chief of Staff.

Get ready for the Chicago Machine conspiracy theories to pick back up again.

*Update:

I know a lot of people, especially on the left, well, and the right since they always do, will bash the president's choice of Bill Daley to head his office and that's their stance to take.  I for one could care less who his chief of staff is if it's not going to be me. Understanding what the president is doing with this requires a step out from academia and political commentary and a step into politics.  Daley is a man the financial institutions trust.  And right now job creation is numero uno.  It's not that hard to figure out what's going on here.  It's about building confidence and trust.  But most of all it's about jobs.  Yes this is politics as usual.  Hate the game just don't hate the player.  Say hello to President Palin if you do.

With all that rant said and done now, even the tree hugging hippy liberals at HuffPost know what's going on here and wouldn't mind 6 more years.

With his low-key demeanor, sense of personal decorum, and yen for privacy and upright behavior in personal life, the 62-year-old Daley has accumulated a lifetime of allies who now will help and respond to him in his new White House job. In Chicago terms, the president has moved from being a South Side activist to the Man in the Loop. The president hopes that the move will get him what he really wants: another term.

That just about sums this whole thing up perfectly.