Frank Rich's
column today reminds us that JFK's "best and the brightest" cabinet was originally a sarcastic phrase, based mostly on the fact that these young geniuses blazed us into Vietnam.
Halberstam wrote that his favorite passage in his book was the one where Johnson, after his first Kennedy cabinet meeting, raved to his mentor, the speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, about all the president’s brilliant men. “You may be right, and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say,” Rayburn responded, “but I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.”
He thinks that Obama's economic team may potentially have the same problems as Kennedy's hubristic Nat'l Security team (and he really doesn't like Robert Rubin)
Well, nobody’s perfect. Given that John McCain’s economic team was headlined by Carly Fiorina and Joe the Plumber, the country would be dodging a fiscal bullet even if Obama had picked Suze Orman.
No comments:
Post a Comment