blogs.cqpolitics.com - 12/3/2008
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Now that President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet is, by his count, half picked, the odds are fading that he’ll have more than one Republican on his team — suggesting that his campaign promise to include Republicans may have meant nothing more than the usual token appointment ...
motherjones.com - 12/1/2008
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motherjones.com —
Barack Obama's national security team--at this early stage--presents
more questions than answers. His selection of Hillary Clinton...
to be secretary of state has been a much-chewed-over topic of pundit puzzlement . And with the Monday morning unveiling ...
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The Curious Retention of Robert Gates
slate.com - 11/27/2008
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slate.com —
Robert Gates. Click image to expand. Robert Gates
If the reports are true that Robert Gates will...
stay on as President Obama's defense secretary, the move is a stroke of brilliance—politically and substantively. In his nearly two years at the helm of ...
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Keeping Robert Gates as secretary of defense is a great ...
online.wsj.com - 11/29/2008
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online.wsj.com —
The names floated for Barack Obama's national security
team "are drawn exclusively from conservative, centrist and pro-military...
circles without even a single -- yes, not one! -- chosen to represent the antiwar wing of the Democratic party." In his ...
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Obama's War Cabinet
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Barack Obama said he was going to be bipartisan. But clearly he lied. CQ hits the nail on the head: Now that President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet is, by his count, half picked, the odds are fading that he’ll have more than one Republican on his team — suggesting that his campaign promise to include Republicans may have meant nothing more than the usual token appointment from the other side.Only one Republican in his cabinet. Now, sure, Obama saved Joe Lieberman, John McCain's biggest supporter, from a certain political death. But how many Joe ...
No Transition From Nonesense
Talking Points Memo —
... Congressional Quarterly bemoans Obama's broken promise of a bipartisan cabinet since he's only appointed one Republican to one of the top three positions in government -- State, Defense and Treasury ... ...
A bipartisan cabinet
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... , in part because "Gates is not a sharply partisan figure." Yesterday, Congressional Quarterly raised similar concerns . Now that President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is, by his count, half picked, the odds are fading that he'll have more than one Republican on his team -- suggesting that his campaign promise to include Republicans may have meant nothing more than the usual token appointment from the other side. Obama did attract a lot of attention by asking Robert Gates to stay on as Defense secretary, and liberals have debated whether he's the right man to oversee a ...
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