Barack Obama has promised to fill his cabinet with rivals, which in theory will keep policy discussions and decisions lively and balanced. However, it appears there is at least one area of his fledgling administration that is not open to discussion or debate - the economy. In Obama's ...

The "Team of Rivals" narrative has had us all looking for likely rifts in Obama's White House, but though Obama is appointing big personalities who will fight hard for their views, within policy areas, he's also been appointing establishment, centrist figures who think more or less ...

If President-elect Obama indeed appoints Bill Richardson Secretary of Commerce and Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, combined with Vice President-elect Joe Biden, that will be three former primary rivals in his Cabinet. And as pending White House senior adviser David...

I was agnostic on the matter of Hillary Clinton's possible appointment as secretary of state--until last night. If Barack Obama, the president-elect, wanted to pull a Team of Rivals play, that had seemed fine to me. ... [I]f Obama and his savvy band of advisers thought that handing her one ...

I was agnostic on the matter of Hillary Clinton's possible appointment as secretary of state--until last night. If Barack Obama, the president-elect, wanted to pull a Team of Rivals play, that had seemed fine to me. ... [I]f Obama and his savvy band of advisers thought that handing her one ...

Robert Waldmann has some concern that, having been elected President of the USA with a brown skin and middle name Hussein, Barack Obama is looking for a real challenge. He is known to be much interested in "Team of Rivals" wants Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State and Joe Lieberman to ...

Watch our Nightline report... - jpt

McCain, Clinton, Clinton... -- jpt

I am not at all sure that I understand Obama's reasoning in considering HRC for Secretary of State, but my gut tells me that we may be seeing an instance where politicians get in trouble through the misplaced use of historical analogy, in this case the "team of rivals." Abraham Lincoln really ...

by Christi Parsons WASHINGTON -- They were bitter rivals during the campaign, but the newly elected U.S. president from Illinois said all along he wasn't looking for a team of allies. "These are the most able men in the country," Abraham Lincoln said of his new Cabinet. "I'm going to need ...

TEAM OF SEMI-RIVALS I joked about Maureen Dowd in my last post, but the notion of Hillary Clinton as Barack Obama's secretary of state is appealing if for no other reason than the fact that it undermines the Dowd narrative of the Democratic nominating contest, which is that a preening golden ...