The odd thing, it seems to me, is not that Obama is stocking his Cabinet with so many old Clintonhands, but that Clinton was able to bring in such a new crew in 1992. There aren’t that many people who know how to the kind of things that Cabinet secretaries have to do.
Of course, we know how well having fresh legs in there worked out in the early days of the Clinton administration
Today’s:
From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it America — where such a thing happens.
From Ethan Bronner in today’s NYT
Yesterday’s:
It has been a long and terrible time since tomorrow mattered as much as it does today.
From William Rivers Pitt, at Truthout
