tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628439014711990625.post2604017002253728215..comments2023-06-07T08:05:47.744-07:00Comments on The Production Room: Life of the Party? Barack ObamaJohn Quimbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870999807987435519noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628439014711990625.post-6028351877454957512008-03-09T21:49:00.000-07:002008-03-09T21:49:00.000-07:00Raymond,Thanks for your detailed comment. The list...Raymond,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your detailed comment. The list of names you cited is very helpful.<BR/><BR/>Also, I read Bob Herbert's NY Times Opinion column which you mentioned and I couldn't agree more. Thanks for the tip. <BR/><BR/>The column is here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/opinion/08herbert.html?_r=1&oref=slogin<BR/><BR/>Look how many of the people you mention on your list of Obama advisers were highly placed in the Clinton Administration. The suggestion has been made that Hillary Clinton has been extremely loyal to their partisans. I'm not informed enough to suggest that she and Bill aren't. <BR/><BR/>But what do you think it should indicate to us that so many have defected from the Clinton camp?<BR/><BR/>And why isn't that a legitimate question for the media to ask? <BR/><BR/>More on my next blog post...John Quimbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13870999807987435519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628439014711990625.post-67622986451930101022008-03-09T05:03:00.000-07:002008-03-09T05:03:00.000-07:00good points, about stopping clinton's momentum, bu...good points, about stopping clinton's momentum, but i think that with the anti-obama venom coming from the clinton team, obama needs more than money. <BR/><BR/>check out bob herbert's column about obama need ing to inject "vision" into his rhetoric -- sorry i can't cite it.<BR/><BR/>i expect, too, that obama will take mississippi, another red state.<BR/><BR/>where, where, are the Dem party elders? al gore? when is richardson going to endorse? presumably obama?<BR/><BR/>below is a list of obama's advisors for diplomatic and military affairs, as creditable as any advisors that clinton or mccain can muster. why haven't the press turned to interviewing them about their opinions on obama's fitness on defense?<BR/><BR/><BR/>i can't understand why obama isn't calling press conferences, with them in tow, to counter clinton's uncreditable claims about his inadequacy as a military president.<BR/>Obama's Foreign Policy & National Security Advisors<BR/><BR/>Former Amb. Jeffrey Bader, President Clinton’s National Security Council Asia specialist and now head of Brookings’s China center, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Mark Brzezinski, President Clinton’s National Security Council Southeast Europe specialist and now a partner at law firm McGuireWoods, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s national security adviser and now a Center for Strategic and International Studies counselor and trustee and frequent guest on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>Richard A. Clarke, President Clinton and President George W. Bush’s counterterrorism czar and now head of Good Harbor Consulting and an ABC News contributor, sometimes Obama adviser<BR/><BR/>Gregory B. Craig, State Department director of policy planning under President Clinton and now a partner at law firm Williams & Connolly, foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>Roger W. Cressey, former National Security Council counterterrorism staffer and now Good Harbor Consulting president and NBC News consultant, has advised Obama but says not exclusive<BR/><BR/>Ivo H. Daalder, National Security Council director for European affairs during President Clinton’s administration and now a Brookings senior fellow, foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>Richard Danzig, President Clinton’s Navy secretary and now a Center for Strategic and International Analysis fellow, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Philip H. Gordon, President Clinton’s National Security Council staffer for Europe and now a Brookings senior fellow, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Maj. Gen. J. (Jonathan) Scott Gration, a 32-year Air Force veteran and now CEO of Africa anti-poverty effort Millennium Villages, national security adviser and surrogate<BR/><BR/>Lawrence J. Korb, assistant secretary of defense from 1981-1985 and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, informal foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>W. Anthony Lake, President Clinton’s national security adviser and now a professor at Georgetown’s school of foreign service, foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>James M. Ludes, former defense and foreign policy adviser to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and now executive director of the American Security Project, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Robert Malley, President Clinton’s Middle East envoy and now International Crisis Group’s Middle East and North Africa program director, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Gen. Merrill A. ("Tony") McPeak, former Air Force chief of staff and now a business consultant, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Denis McDonough, Center for American Progress senior fellow and former policy adviser to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, foreign policy coordinator<BR/><BR/>Samantha Power, Harvard-based human rights scholar and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>Susan E. Rice, President Clinton’s Africa specialist at the State Department and National Security Council and now a Brookings senior fellow, foreign policy adviser<BR/><BR/>Bruce O. Riedel, former CIA officer and National Security Council staffer for Near East and Asian affairs and now a Brookings senior fellow, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Dennis B. Ross, President Clinton’s Middle East negotiator and now a Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow, Middle East adviser<BR/><BR/>Sarah Sewall, deputy assistant secretary of defense for peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance during President Clinton’s administration and now director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, national security adviser<BR/><BR/>Daniel B. Shapiro, National Security Council director for legislative affairs during President Clinton’s administration and now a lobbyist with Timmons & Company, Middle East adviser<BR/><BR/>Mona Sutphen, former aide to President Clinton’s National Security adviser Samuel R. Berger and to United Nations ambassador Bill Richardson and now managing director of business consultancy Stonebridge, national security adviserRaymond McInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161131382108737859noreply@blogger.com