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huffingtonpost.com - 12/1/2008
Obama Team Repackaging Clinton's Foreign Policy Credentials
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WASHINGTON — It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama and his advisers were tripping over one another to tear down Hillary Rodham Clinton's foreign policy credentials. She was dismissed as a commander in chief wanna-be who did little more than sip tea and make small talk with foreign ...
Washington Memo: A Handpicked Team for a Foreign Policy Shift
nytimes.com - 12/1/2008
Washington Memo: A Handpicked Team for a Foreign Policy Shift
— nytimes.com — In the vision of the coming Obama administration, an expanded corps of diplomats and aid workers would... be engaged in preventing conflicts and rebuilding failed states around the world. > (more) Washington Memo: A Handpicked Team for a Foreign Policy ...

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Future Ex-Democrats
spectator.org - 11/24/2008
Future Ex-Democrats
— spectator.org — Perhaps the most brilliant thing about Barack Obama's successful campaign was its vagueness. In offering himself as... the all-purpose Change We Can Believe In, Obama gave believers a blank slate and a tacit license to project upon him their ... (more) Future Ex-Democrats

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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/26/2008
Obama's Agenda & The Difference Between Tactics & Strategy
— fivethirtyeight.com — There is, to say the least, a lot of jumping to conclusions about just which type of... President Barack Obama is liable to be, by which I mean whether he'll govern from the left or the center. This speculation has been principally based on his cabinet ... (more) Obama's Agenda & The Difference Between Tactics & Strategy

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Sister Toldjah:  Obama officially names Hillary as his Sec. of State pick

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES:  Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize (by Suzie)

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Obama officially names Hillary as his Sec. of State pick
Sister Toldjah — ... Quote of the day: Shortly after Obama announced his picks, a reporter slyly asked him about what he’d said about Hillary’s foreign policy creds back during the primaries. As I’m sure you’ll rememeber, it wasn’t very flattering. ...

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize (by Suzie)
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — ... . Although Obama appointed her as Secretary of State, it appears he gets all the credit for international relations, while she gets a pat on the back for "having no trouble adapting to being a team player subordinate to Obama," as Wikipedia notes. Although Obama had been in the White House less than two weeks when he was nominated, Clinton's eight years in the White House doesn't count because she was only a wife who served tea. ...

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