This sort of comment is all one can expect from the Obama bobbleheads. Leave critical thinking at the door and just nod your head up and down. The appointment of a neocon like Ross is a worrisome sign and is a disgraceful appointment. He is part architect of the foreign policy which has cost this country so much in lives and money. If you find that a good thing, just say it. But smart-alec comments without any content seem to be your stock and trade and the other Obama defenders-at-all-costs and in all cases. You left out that he hasn't yet been inaugurated (a real goldie and good for all purposes but to use your phrase a little overused don't you think? ).

Since the mess was created by Republican and Democratic pros, the answer is YES, I would be more optimistic without an administration stocked with the thinking that brought us the economic collapse, the middle east impasse, the thinking on terror, free trade not fair trade, the shredding of the safety net, and apologizing for torture (John Brennan).

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I completely disagree. The argument that he should be doing this or that or his policy (on health care, or foreign policy, or the stimulus) is NOT a whine it is an argument; A counter argument would indicate why his policy is a good one that addresses the problem. The argument that all Americans should have health care and the best way to provide it is a single-payer system has not been overused. It is correct and needs to be argued more forcefully. The comment that Obama should not be criticized and the policies and appointments he is putting forward not criticized because he is not yet inaugurated is infantile.