From Craig Crawford:
"Yikes, not only does Karl Rove approve of Barack Obama's national security team. So does Dick Cheney. What is going on here? As a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama could not have been more scathing in his critiques of George W. Bush's foreign policy. But as president-elect, Obama appears to be installing a continuation of the incumbent's agenda. Wow, what happened to change? Or did Obama learn something in those secret intelligence briefings that perhaps the rest of us would be better off not knowing?"
TW: Crawford makes the huge leap that since Rove and Cheney express comfort with some of the personnel selected by Obama (Clinton, Gates, Jones) that Obama is now no longer for change. Crawford apparently did not read the Cheney interview. While Cheney expressed admiration for some of the Obama picks (but not say Susan Rice UN Amb.-nominee), Crawford ignored Cheney's continued dogmatic support for policies Obama strongly opposes (torture, Guantanamo, the need to have attacked Iraq originally). It is not the people, it is the policy. Again who has a greater chance of changing policy a bunch of doctrinaire doves or a group of moderates commanded by a progressive?
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