Yesterday P.E. BAM unveiled the starting line up for your 2009 Foreign Policy team, and I’m sure by now you’re all wondering what I think.
I’m not crazy aboot Susan Rice, though that has little to do with her background as much as it has to do with her annoying the hell out of me during the campaign. But she’ll be at the UN and have a notebook she can doodle in during cabinet meetings, so whatever.
Eric Holder I retain my indifference to, though apparently for everything aboot him the right doesn’t like there seems to be something the left doesn’t like as well, so take that for what it’s worth.
Other than that, if you substituted Joe Lieberman for Hillary Clinton, I would think that John McCain was the President-Elect. I could see J-Mac keeping Bob Gates. Jim Jones, if not National Security Adviser, would be Secretary of Energy. And I could even see McCain choosing Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security.
I was expecting Markos Moulitsas at the Pentagon and Katrina vanden Heuvel at the State Department. Instead, we’re getting a foreign policy team that more closely resembles Bush41. P.E. BAM chose experience and competence over ideology.
Much like with his economic team, no real complaints here.
