Posted on 12/05/2008 12:53:01 PM PST by PurpleMan
President-elect Barack Obama has appointed an extraordinary team for national security policy. On its face, it violates certain maxims of conventional wisdom: that appointing to the Cabinet individuals with an autonomous constituency, and who therefore are difficult to fire, circumscribes presidential control; that appointing as national security adviser, secretary of state and secretary of defense individuals with established policy views may absorb the president's energies in settling disputes among strong-willed advisers.
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Henry was wearing out his thesaurus on this one.
I understand the points he made but had to pass over a bunch of words that my small mind didn’t know.
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