From Jeremy Scahill, Alternet:
Obama has a momentous opportunity to do what he repeatedly promised over the course of his campaign: bring actual change. But the more we learn about who Obama is considering for top positions in his administration, the more his inner circle resembles a staff reunion of President Bill Clinton’s White House. Although Obama brought some progressives on board early in his campaign, his foreign policy team is now dominated by the hawkish, old-guard Democrats of the 1990s. – Link
Others would give him the benefit of the doubt for now. Christine Bowman of Buzzflash offers soothing words to the doubters in Faith or Doubt – Obama’s Base Second Guessing while Steve Clemons dealing more specifically with the possibility of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State contends that such a “pick would be brilliant, but risky, move”. He writes: “Clinton may be the bad cop to Obama’s good cop. Because she is trusted by Pentagon-hugging national security conservatives, she may legitimize his desire to respond to this pivot point in American history with bold strokes rather than incremental ones.”
