Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Dear Pro-Obama media members:

Would you please make known what percentage of the folks around barry - including his cabinet appointments - hail from University of Chicago, Columbia and/or Harvard?

UPDATE: Got a partial answer from DAVID BROOKS. (10-21-08) NYTimes
Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly. Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary Clinton (Wellesley, Yale Law), Jim Steinberg (Harvard, Yale Law) and Susan Rice (Stanford, Oxford D. Phil.).

The domestic policy team will be there, too, including Jason Furman (Harvard, Harvard Ph.D.), Austan Goolsbee (Yale, M.I.T. Ph.D.), Blair Levin (Yale, Yale Law), Peter Orszag (Princeton, London School of Economics Ph.D.) and, of course, the White House Counsel Greg Craig (Harvard, Yale Law).
He sticks to the Ivy League - nothing about University of Chicago appointments. Of course, he like everyone else, cannot see that Sen Clinton exists as a separate political being from her husband. Who is the most beloved man outside the US who has actually DONE something? President Clinton. How is that to be a detriment if everything he is done is cleared by barry's lawyers? I'm sure he'll have someone tailing Mr Bill.
Hillary Clinton at State is problematic, mostly because nobody has a role for her husband. But, as she has demonstrated in the Senate, her foreign-policy views are hardheaded and pragmatic. (It would be great to see her set of interests complemented by Samantha Power's set of interests at the U.N.)
Do you really think Sen Clinton wants anything to do with the immature woman who called her a Monster? Guess it's because she fits the Harvard mold.

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