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Preparing for the Presidency..
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As the 2008 campaign nears its conclusion, the presidential transition efforts of the two major candidates have become a study in contrasts: Sen. Barack Obama has organized an elaborate well-staffed network to prepare for his possible ascension to the White House, while Sen. John McCain has all but put off such work until after the election.
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Governance scholars consider the process invaluable, particularly as the nation struggles with a major economic crisis, two active wars, and a range of domestic security threats. "Our enemies understand how potentially vulnerable we are in the transition from one administration to the next," Clay Johnson III, former Executive Director of the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition, said recently at a forum on transition planning. "This is something we need to be very, very seriously prepared for."
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With 100 or so days before the next president takes office, Obama's transition effort has been organized into roughly a dozen teams of six to eight people to plot out the approach for each agency, according to a Democratic official. The ethics code governing the process prohibits staff from working on subjects that could be deemed a financial conflict of interests, either to that member or that member's family.
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John McCain, by contrast, has done little. Campaign spokespersons did not respond to requests for elaboration. But one official with direct knowledge, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed concern with McCain's approach. The Arizona Senator has instructed his team to not spend time on the transition effort, according to the source, both out of a desire to have complete focus on winning the election as well as a superstitious belief that the campaign shouldn't put the cart before the horse.
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Excepted from Obama, McCain Transition Efforts Are Worlds Apart
Do you think designing the transition time this early is presumptuous of Obama? Do you think McCain's failure to do so yet is a sign of a candidate simply determined to win?
I personally think that Obama's planning this early is only a sign of his personality, and a sign of a person I want to be as President. I think McCain failing to plan much (if any) of it is a real sign of a person who either thinks they're not going to win or someone who really doesn't care about the Presidency inasmuch as he cares about winning at all costs.
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Last edited by Jinn; 10-09-2008 at 11:54 AM..
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