Obama’s latest appointments: Pragmatic, paradoxical – and problematic?
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Yesterday, in Chicago, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced several top-level appointments, naming the policy-makers-in-waiting he will nominate to become members of his new administration’s national-security (and foreign-policy) team. Obama chose New York Senator Hillary Clinton – until recently, his rival for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination – to serve as his secretary of state. With this one appointment, in particular, in mind, the mass media have already locked into what will become their indefatigable narrative for months and maybe years to come (in fact, they’ve already been test-driving it for weeks); that is, will Obama and Clinton be able to get along and work together? Will their rivalry from the campaign period resurface and cause problems?
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