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Some thoughts.
Emanuel will probably be tapped to be Chief of Staff. I trust this choice, though it will be controversial.
I don't have strong opinions about the the cabinet yet.
I feel like I know Obama personally. I'm sad to call it "branding" or "marketing", but whatever it is, he made me feel like I could storm Washington and make change if I fought for it. So I did. He did. We did. And here we are. I'm positively giddy. And this skill is going to help him enact his agenda.
People are already arguing that Obama is too cautious. I don't expect a liberal administration, I expect a competent one. Caution assists competence.
I feel a little sorry for Obama, not just for the enormous burden he's taking on, but just that he's not going to be human anymore, at least not for 4 or 8 years. He's turned into an icon. He's going to the president. And I hear it's lonely.
But if you trust that he just wants to help the country he loves, which I do, he couldn't be in a better position right now. I just hope a) he survives b) he is allowed to be human.
