Obama still filling out his team
I attended the formal swearing in of Philip Gordon, the new Undersecretary of State for Europe today.
Lovely ceremony, proud family, good speeches. And above all a reminder that this administration is not yet fully staffed!
Bizarre but true: Phil (who is a friend so I will say nothing about his competence and politics) is by no means the last aboard. Others still languish un-confirmed and unable to begin their public service.
And yet, in other respects, the administration is getting old - with and .
I suspect the Obama view is that there is a long, long way to go. He faces no imminent election - and might gain politically if his Democratic friends in Congress get singed a little in 2010 - so he presses on at his pace and with his priorities.
And always the knowledge that .
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