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What I find amazing is to listen to the punditry, even on salon.com, go on and on about how "great" is Obama's national security team. If you don't think Clinton is the most experienced, perfect person for Sec. of State than you're a "Clinton hater." The sort of adulation of Obama and his "team" is makes it seem as though citizens are children who just need to trust, trust, trust their political leaders.
We're not supposed to "trust" our political leaders in a democracy. But somehow not trusting has become equated with being "anti-Obama" or ironically "naive" for thinking that Obama was progressive when he wasn't or a number of other disciplinary finger shakings at people who out of simply observing that the selection of these people is not an automatic sign of great things to come.
I do think Obama will make policy, and I believe him when he says he wants to hear different opinions, it is that the range of opinions seems relatively narrow in his cabinet.
