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President-elect Barack Obama selected Chicago Public Schools CEO and Harvard Overseer Arne S. Duncan ’86 last month to fill the post of Secretary of Education, touting Duncan’s hands-on experience with public education at a joint press conference at Chicago’s Dodge Renaissance School, one of the institutions that Duncan targeted for reform since becoming head of the country’s third-largest public school system...
Scowcroft is that, but he's not actually "advising" Obama. The President-elect has only spoken to him twice, briefly, in the last year and not on substance. Obama's other attempts at outreach, though apparently sincere, seem equally symbolic, at least for now. Obama has had short conversations with Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz and former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and both men describe their conversations positively. But an Obama transition aide, when pressed about these contacts, admits that it is "not fair to put them in the category of advisers." Rick Warren and Obama...
...President-elect needs to feign a willingness to listen to the right. He has already established his bipartisan bona fides on domestic and foreign policy by picking a Republican Defense Secretary, an undeclared but right-leaning National Security Adviser, an independent Treasury Secretary and now, reportedly, a Republican Transportation Secretary. In those positions centrists and Republicans won't be merely symbols of Obama's open-mindedness; they will be among his closest advisers...
...want him out. "I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath," Blagojevich said to a packed news conference in Chicago's Loop. It was the first formal statement Blagojevich had made since being charged last week with trying to auction off President-Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, among other alleged offenses...
...innocent," he proclaimed. "I am not going to quit a job the people hired me to do." simply because nearly every politician in the state and many nationwide, up through the President-elect, have called for him to step aside. He called the charges against him, "false accusations," and declared those seeking to remove him from office were "a political lynch mob." (See the Top 10 Scandals...