Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:20 AM
Pundits React To Transition Thus Far
As Barack Obama begins to assemble his team, the pundits are weighing in on his selections and what they may say about his leadership style. Here is a sampling of Tuesday's transition-related op-eds.
- Eugene Robinson is alarmed by the power vacuum that seems to be developing as Obama and President Bush share the spotlight. "Having two presidents is starting to feel like having no president, and that's the situation we'll face until Inauguration Day. Heaven help us."
- E.J. Dionne lavishes praise on Obama's economic team, contending that "getting Timothy Geithner and former Treasury secretary Larry Summers working in harness is Obama's single biggest post-election victory."
- H.D.S. Greenway expresses reservations about Obama's selection of Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of State and maintains that "a team of rivals can have its down side."
- In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cox Newspapers' Tom Teepen senses that so far "Obama seems to be disappointing his most ardent detractors and his most ardent supporters about equally" with his appointments. But, he says, "the impression grows of an emerging administration that may disappoint the right's eagerly fearful and the left's moonbeamers, but is being readied for the practical political work of forward-leaning change."
- Rich Lowry is thankful that "Obama's airy rhetoric about a new kind of politics was more a pitch for impressionable new voters than a description of his governing style," arguing that so far the president-elect "has acted with a ruthless pragmatism."
- In the Washington Times, Daniel Gallington, former general counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has "been through several transitions of government," asserts that the process is "pretty much like everything else that goes on in Washington: Like sausage, it's probably best not to see it made." He holds out hope, however, that Obama "understands the inherent weaknesses of the typical transition 'process,'" and is trying to do things differently.
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