BILL DALEY'S DEPARTURE.

Mr. Bill Daley departure from the White House should not be surprising as the third Chief-of-staff for President Barack Obama, for his background did not measure up to the new image that Obama's campaign operatives would want to promote in an election year.

The Obama camp wanted to portray him as championing the cause of the middle class and working people; a picture that has improved the president's approval rating tremendously, and the idea of letting that slip through the fingers of the top campaign personnel would be ludicrous.

Daley was the campaign chairman for Al Gore's presidential bid in 2000, and what happened then has become history. He has also played a vigorous part in the debt ceiling and deficit reduction talks last year that did not materialize; and his connection with Democratic lawmakers have been sour as time went on.

His advice to the president to cut a deal with Speaker John Boehner during the debt ceiling talks angered Democrats, as the negotiations fell through.

"A top Democratic congressional aide told CNN that Daley's relations with Democratic legislators were strained. According to the aide, congressional Democrats believed Daley did a poor job of reaching out to legislators and listening to their ideas during contentious budget and debt ceiling negotiations last year" (CNN 01/11/12).

Although, he was a Chicago native, there was a distance between him and the president before former Chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel recommended him as his replacement.

At the time, his services were needed to bring closer ties between the new administration and the business sector, and that might have worked for a while, until the Wall Street reform dampened the hopes of corporations. With the reform came several regulations that businesses thought to be too restrictive.

The United States economy has been slower than usual ever since; and that could not be allowed to go unchecked by campaign planners.

Daley himself has approached the president for his ouster due to family reasons. He might have sensed that the mood has to change, if Obama's reelection run should have no impediments, and that the timing was right at the start of a new year than into the middle of 2012, when the campaign was in full swing.

"Does Daley departure mean trouble?", as Politico.com has been asking, and many people were saying, "No."; as the change was almost a natural process for any advice to the president now to not come from a complete bureaucrat, but from his operatives, who were "the generals" on the ground in the campaign.

President Obama has no alternative, but to grant Mr. Daley's wish to move on to become part of his reelection effort from a different vantage point.

Besides, from the many rifts that have gone on in recent months between the White House and Congress on Daley's watch, a new face in a new year would be welcomed by all sides for a new beginning to be established in Washington D.C.

That would also be a welcome respite for the country as a whole, as it entered into a year that would be more pivotal than unusual.

Also, America's leadership should be potent and effective, as the world moved into an era of controversy of what should or should not be good for all nations; and toward achieving global peace and stability.