Obama to have bipartisan cabinet

Barack Obama has said that he will appoint a bipartisan cabinet. This is disappointing. The Republicans have not pursued wise policies. How could Obama or we be sure that a Republican cabinet secretary is following an Obama/Democratic vision?
From Reuters, in the New York Times:
Obama Says Would Include Republicans In Cabinet

SUNRISE, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would include Republicans in his Cabinet if he wins the election.

Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, also said he had "some pretty good ideas" about people he might tap for senior government jobs, though he emphasized he is focused for now on the final days of the campaign and takes nothing for granted....

Obama said he "absolutely" considered it important to have Republicans in the Cabinet but he sidestepped a question on whether he would ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his job. There has been speculation that either Obama or his Republican rival, John McCain, might ask Gates to stay on.

"I'm not going to get into details," Obama said, but he added that national security policy, in particular, should be nonpartisan.

Other people mentioned as possible defense secretary picks in an Obama administration include former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig and Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican senator from Nebraska....

Interview video clip of Obama with Charlie Gibson, on cabinet.

Rice: "United States will be fine" under Obama

This just in: " Rice: US would be safe under Obama"
"Yahoo News" reported today that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said that the US would be safe under a President Barack Obama.

In an interview with Politico and Yahoo News released Thursday, Rice, was asked if she would feel secure with a president Obama.

"Oh, the United States will be fine," she responded. "I think that we are having an important debate about how we keep the country safe," she said, pointing to the Middle East and Iraq.

"Those are important judgments for the American people to make."

This is impressive! She is not just any voter expressing her opinion. Let's just review the credentials of who is making this assessment, putting aside what we think of Rice's policies and practices under President George W. Bush, here is the professional background of Secretary Rice: former National Security Advisor and Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow (on leave) at Stanford University-Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

This counteracts the damage from Bill Clinton's tepid assessment of the United States under a President Obama, as expressed in his August 4 interview with ABC News.

Delicious! Where is the youtube video for this?