Transition Memo - Obama Team Anything but Shy and Retiring

The issue is whether she can have the kind of close relationship with Obama that’s required to be an effective secretary of state. He needs to trust her implicitly; she needs to operate in a way that makes it unmistakably clear that his interests are her top priority. She must be the White House’s woman at the State Department.” Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 19, 2008

This piece was more shallow than I'd expected going into it. We're offered a handful of sources, some anonymous, who comment on the combativeness of Obama's transition team members, but there's not a lot of background or good anecdotal evidence that gives us insight into these personalities.

To be truly effective in what it set out to show, this piece should have been magazine-length. Most of this sounds like Beltway gossip.

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