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...Bush. Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta had met Barack Obama only a few times before the Democratic nominee summoned him to Chicago in August to ask him to begin planning a transition. Podesta supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and had little in common with Obama beyond the fact that they are both skinny guys from Chicago. Yet it is hard to think of a Democrat in Washington who can match Podesta's organizational abilities or his knowledge of the inner workings of government. And Obama was already giving plenty of thought to the crucial...
...Resistance may not be limited to the U.S. Following Saturday's meeting of E.U. leaders, some contested Sarkozy's contention that a "fairly detailed common position by Europe" had been found. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek retorted that the E.U. had given Sarkozy, who will be attending not just as President of France but also as the current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency, a "vague mandate" for Washington that reflected "the divergent opinions on the way things should be handled." Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, presumably piqued at the idea of his nation's tradition of bank...
...calm response to Russia's missile gambit a success? Obama's aides present it as a sober counterpoint to McCain's tough talk during the campaign. "What was overlooked in [Medvedev's] speech was a part about working cooperatively on issues of common concern," says the aide. "So the transition [team] seized upon that issue up front." Such tactics, however, have not pleased some on the hawkish right who fear that Obama is appeasing the Russians. Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal editorial board called on Obama to say "publicly and explicitly [that he] will not be intimidated...
...this be very clear: If I don't get concrete results, I'll take off," Sarkozy warned Saturday following a meeting of European Union heads to prepare a common position for the Nov. 15 summit. "I'll leave Washington and come home." (See Today in Pictures...
...Good luck with that, responds Terry Miller, director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington. Miller says that while certain common agreements to increase transparency of financial markets may be acceptable, Obama - like Bush - won't "allow large and vital sectors of America's economy that thrive on innovation to be fenced in" by international accords. And while he thinks Sarkozy's efforts to raise expectations about what the summit can achieve are misguided, Miller does see a logic to meeting to discuss the crisis...