Tim Harper
'New dawn' of U.S. leadership
WASHINGTON–U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has surrounded himself with a 2008 version of the "best and the brightest,'' a security and foreign policy team of high achievers who also carry strong ambitions and strong egos.
Although his cabinet choices unveiled yesterday in Chicago are sufficiently centrist to potentially put his popularity among his liberal constituency at risk, this team of rivals also carries the risk of devolving into competing camps.
Obama says he ...
