How do you rate Barack Obama's national security team?

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

"Their broad experience, coupled with his leadership, could provide the country with very capable leadership over the next four years."
1/22/2009 1:36:48 PM

Steny Hoyer

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

...am that is extremely well-prepared and well-qualified to meet them.
1/21/2009 10:11:22 AM

The Tennessean

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

The team itself looks every bit as impressive as the financial team Obama introduced earlier last week.
1/21/2009 10:10:58 AM

Joan Walsh

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

Should make Americans feel safer
1/20/2009 9:50:16 PM

Karen Hughes

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

"...it's a strong and capable team and I find it very reassuring."
1/20/2009 9:49:53 PM

Washington Post

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

President-elect Barack Obama's picks thus far are experienced, capable, smart and pragmatic.
1/20/2009 9:43:45 PM

John Warner

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

The triumvirate of Gates, Clinton and Jones to lead Obama’s national security team instills great confidence at home and abroad...
1/20/2009 9:43:27 PM

Jack Reed

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

A superb group of people.
1/20/2009 9:41:53 PM

Claire McCaskill

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

What he is showing America is he wants the best and the brightest and he doesn’t care about their political stripes.
1/20/2009 9:41:32 PM

Donna Brazile

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

A team of rivals, that will help him set a new course, a new tone, here in the nation's capital.
1/20/2009 9:40:37 PM

James Woolsey, Jr.

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

I think it is a good team.
1/20/2009 9:34:47 PM

Dick Cheney

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

I must say, I think it's a pretty good team.
1/20/2009 7:41:29 PM

Charles Krauthammer

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

...kind of change I can believe in.
1/20/2009 7:36:48 PM

Bill Bennett

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

...this is a pretty impressive team...
1/20/2009 7:34:15 PM

Rich Lowry

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

It's as moderate as any Democrat's national-security picks could possibly get.
1/20/2009 7:33:59 PM

Peter Beinart

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

To give himself cover for a withdrawal from Iraq and a diplomatic push with Iran, he's surrounding himself with people who can't be lampooned as doves.
1/20/2009 7:33:28 PM

Susan Estrich

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

The "A Team"
1/20/2009 7:33:01 PM

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

have the intellect, the political heft and the independence to help the new president
1/20/2009 7:10:25 PM

Ann Coulter

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

Judging by his Cabinet choices, he may not be as crazy as I thought he was.
1/7/2009 11:25:34 AM

Steven Clemons

Barack Obama's national security team is "Satisfactory."

a realist-tilting, crafty Obama-led, Bob Gates-designed, Clinton-out-front process to get a strategic shift in U.S. foreign policy.
12/16/2008 10:30:38 AM