thenation.com - 11/25/2008
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No one should be shocked to discover that, in his transition to the presidency, the "inexperienced" former senator from Chicago has turned to the last Democratic administration that had experience in Washington. It seems, however, that the Obama team is doing so big time. Looking at lists of ...
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gallup.com - 12/2/2008
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans widely approve of Barack
Obama's decisions, announced on Monday, to name Hillary Clinton...
secretary of state and to ask Robert Gates to stay on as secretary of defense. mwboj_5e_uqnvqhkyovxoq These results are based on a ...
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Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks
iowahawk.typepad.com - 11/25/2008
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WASHINGTON DC - Ending weeks of speculation and
rumors, President-Elect Barack Obama today named Bill Clinton to...
join his incoming administration as President of the United States, where he will head the federal government's executive branch."I am ...
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Obama Names Bill Clinton to Presidential Post
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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Who Rules the Pentagon?
TomDispatch —
... last week, and you find the Obama transition people using a little known think-tank, the Center for a New American Security (CNSA), as a "top farm team" to stock its national security shelves. The founders of the center are -- don't be shocked now -- former Clinton administration officials providing yet more "centrists" to an administration that seems to believe the essence of "experience" is having been in Washington between 1992 and 2000. CNAS, by the way, is officially against a fixed timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. In that, it seems typical of the coalescing national ...
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Shadow of the Hegemon —
... last week, and you find the Obama transition people using a little known think-tank, the Center for a New American Security (CNSA), as a "top farm team" to stock its national security shelves. The founders of the center are -- don't be shocked now -- former Clinton administration officials providing yet more "centrists" to an administration that seems to believe the essence of "experience" is having been in Washington between 1992 and 2000. CNAS, by the way, is officially against a fixed timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. In that, it seems typical of the coalescing national ...
Who Rules the Pentagon?
Antiwar.com Original —
... last week, and you find the Obama transition people using a little known think-tank, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), as a "top farm team" to stock its national security shelves. The founders of the center are don't be shocked now former Clinton administration officials providing yet more "centrists" to an administration that seems to believe the essence of "experience" is having been in Washington between 1992 and 2000. CNAS, by the way, is officially against a fixed timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. In that, it seems typical of the coalescing national ...
The Audacity of Patience
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The hard left, I must say, has shown remarkable patience in light of the middle ground the Obama Administration-In-Waiting has cautiously taken since election day. Oh, there’s been some grumbling about all the Clintonistas the O-Team is stocking the executive branch with, The One’s realization that perhaps it might be best to let the Bush tax cuts simply expire rather than ...
The Audacity of Patience
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The hard left, I must say, has shown remarkable patience in
light of the middle ground the Obama Administration-In-Waiting has
cautiously taken since election day. Oh, there's been some
grumbling about all the
Clintonistas the O-Team is
stocking the executive branch with, The One's realization that
perhaps it might be best to let the Bush tax cuts simply expire
rather than ...
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