[The
Telegraph, UK.]
Die Presse, Austria
Obama Chooses the
Best People: What a Concept!
"Could we please have an
Austrian chancellor grasp the concept of assembling a team comprised of the
best minds? We have had enough with groups of amateurs brought together on the
basis of proportionality and in accordance with demands by state and federal
bean counters."
By Christian Ultsch
Translated By Ulf Behncke
November 23, 2008
Austria -
Die Presses - Original Article (German)
Obama is picking the best
people for his cabinet. At some point, that would be a nice change for Austria
too.
This is in fact one possible
way to form a government. Barack Obama, the new U.S. president, has decided
upon this obvious but rarely used method: He is simply choosing the best minds
to grapple with the issues, and is putting people in his cabinet who actually
understand their respective portfolios.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
The best example of this is
Timothy Geithner [photo, right 
]. The new [pick for] U.S. treasury secretary has not
only studied Chinese, he has most recently been chairman of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, and prior to that he was undersecretary of the treasury for
international affairs. [Obama's pick for] commerce secretary, Bill Richardson,
earned his chops as secretary of energy. Republican Robert Gates, the incumbent
secretary of defense, may well keep his position - simply because he does a
good job.
[Hoje
Macau, Macau, People's Republic of China]
Naturally, the new president
also surrounds himself with trusted aides and those who were early supporters.
But it's nonetheless impressive to witness Obama's willingness to accept
high-caliber people, like his rival Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state.
No one yet knows whether Obama’s
all-stars will jell as a team and pull together in the right direction. In the
beginning, Bush also impressed by appointing professionals like Colin Powell,
Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld.
But setting aside that not
unimportant exception: Could we please have an Austrian chancellor grasp the
concept of assembling a team comprised of the best minds? We have had enough
with groups of amateurs brought together on the basis of proportionality and in
accordance with demands by state and federal bean counters.
SEE ALSO:
Die Welt, Germany: Clinton Pick
a Bold Expression of Obama's Strength
Novosti,
Russia: Clinton 'By Far Not the Worst' for U.S. Secretary of State
christian.ultsch@diepresse.com
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VERSION
[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US November
28, 4:46am]
