A MIDGET Shetland pony -- from Australia
Obama's A+ Centrist Cabinet from CNN
"This is something of a centrist dream team, the latest sign of a confident, pragmatic president-elect who is fulfilling promises to appoint a ‘Team of Rivals” while defying opposition campaign attempts to paint him as naïvely liberal."
Senate Could Give New President Early Legislative Victories from the Washington Post
"Though they are two votes short of their quest for 60 votes -- with two races still undecided -- Democrats say that regular support from a few Republican moderates will allow them to pass bills that were halted in the current Congress by GOP parliamentary roadblocks."
Mr. Obama's Team from the New York Times Editorial Board
"After years of watching American leadership crumble under the weight of bad decisions made in a White House shuttered to all debate, President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team is a relief."
Venezuela Needs Kind of Change US People Have Chosen from Tal Cual [of Venezuela in English]
"I celebrated seeing North Americans finally repudiate their prejudices and choose the option of hope, coined in the logo of the rising sun of Obama. They overcame their own fears, adamantly rejecting those that McCain tried to inject during his dishonorable and dirty campaign - which is why they called it the “campaign of filth.”"
African Heritage and the American Dream from the Los Angeles Times
"Barack Obama is often viewed as a singular sensation: a disaffected teen with no family wealth or connections who went on to become president of the Harvard Law Review, a U.S. senator and the first black president of the United States. But if the president-elect is in many ways unique, he's also part of a broader phenomenon."
Charting a New World Role from the Boston Globe
"Marking a sharp break from the Bush administration, Obama and his team vowed to focus on diplomacy, not solely military power, to tackle terrorism, end the Iraq war, rebuild Afghanistan, and help other emerging democracies."
It's America's Time from the Guardian [of London]
"Almost everyone has noted that Obama's candidacy offered a reminder of how appalling and aberrational the Bush years had been. That's true enough, yet it is also only half the story. In a grander sense, the young senator's campaign was also a powerful rebuttal to the ideas that so many people had come to wearily accept about politics itself."
"In this season of thanksgiving, I'm grateful for women. Not just my female friends, relatives and colleagues but women whose oft-uncelebrated sacrifices keep the world running. Women like the ones President-elect Barack Obama has lost, and the one with whom he remains.""
Publishers Bet Big on Obama from Politico
"The publishing industry is betting on Barack Obama like no president in decades. Since Election Day alone, more than half a dozen book deals have been signed to exploit Obamania. "
Measuring the Obama Effect Around the World from RealClearPolitics
"The goodwill that Obama has already generated abroad can help him forge foreign partnerships -- tactical alliances that will help with management of a host of pressing international problems."
An F for Bush's Iran Policy (David Ignatius) from the Washington Post
"Absent some last-minute fireworks, President Bush will leave office with a kind of double failure on Iran: Administration hard-liners haven't checked Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear-weapons technology, and moderates haven't engaged Iran in negotiation and dialogue."
SCIENCE NUGGET!
A New Picture of the Early Earth from the New York Times
"Geologists now almost universally agree that by 4.2 billion years ago, the Earth was a pretty placid place, with both land and oceans. Instead of hellishly hot, it may have frozen over. Because the young Sun put out 30 percent less energy than it does today, temperatures on Earth might have been cold enough for parts of the surface to have been covered by expanses of ice."
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