Video: Obama’s National Security Team, Face the Nation, Woodward, Zakaria, Mayer, Dyson | November 30
Filed under: Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton, India, Obama Transition, Terrorism, U.S. Economy
The following 16 minute video is well worth watching – insightful talk with Bob Woodward, Fareed Zakaria, Jane Mayer and Michael Eric Dyson regarding President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement tomorrow unveiling his national security team. One interesting comment from Woodward:
SCHIEFFER: …the president, if all goes as expected, at 10:50 Eastern time tomorrow will
announce his new national security team, to be headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of
state.Mr. WOODWARD: She never goes away, she and her husband. It’s an amazing national security team that Obama appears to have selected. It’s kind of like “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”
You’ve got too cool, which might be–or at least appropriately cool, General Jones as the national security adviser; Gates is kind of just right, in the middle; and Hillary Clinton, hot. This is going to be a whole new center of gravity for the news media, for the whole world. My assessment without having any knowledge, really, is that the economists and the economic team around Obama convinced him that the economic crisis is so deep and going to require to much time, go ahead and give Hillary and Bill the world.
Yikes. I’m not sure that’s what I voted for, Bob.
Sunday p.m. – Woodward’s new book, Fannie, Freddie, Prez Campaign, Pakistan
Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Foreign Policy, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Iraq, John McCain, Presidential Campaign 2008, Russian/Georgian Conflict, Sarah Palin, Terrorism, U.S. Economy
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