Friday, October 31, 2008

not ready to lead

It would be positively surreal to have people in power who seemed to have a glimmer of an idea about what the phokk they were doing...

Obama prepares for quick transition

The best-kept secret in Washington is that Barack Obama has the largest and most disciplined presidential transition team anyone can recall. Headed by John Podesta, former chief of staff in Bill Clinton's White House, it started work well before the financial meltdown hit in September but has been swamped by its implications ever since.
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"The level of detail that the Obama transition team is getting into is extraordinary - they are leaving no stone unturned," said a senior former Clinton administration official who has been consulted. "I have been getting calls that you'd expect in previous transitions to get maybe in December or never at all."

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