I'm beginning to like this guy ...

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“With his nominations of Dennis Blair and Leon Panetta, President-elect Obama has drawn a clear line. Blair (a former commander in chief of the Navy's Pacific Command, a former associate director of central intelligence, and a former president of the Institute for Defense Analysis) will run the US intelligence establishment.

Leon Panetta, a former budget director and White House Chief of Staff whose main connection to the world of intelligence was to write a letter denouncing the Bush administration's detainee policies, is there to appease the Democratic left.

It does not get any neater than that.”
 — David Frum

Let me be perfectly clear. I have liked David Frum all along. The subject of this post refers to the President-elect.