11-24-2008, 03:12 AM
freeradical wrote:
Huh? The State Department is a huge bureaucracy with many qualified people at the top with both diplomatic and administrative experience. Obama could have promoted from within.
Advancing from within is not always a good idea. These people would have their own enemies and detractors from within to contend with. New blood gives new vitality and direction.
It's a wonder to me that any of these bureaucracies function at all with the constant changes at the top. I work for a state government and no matter who is at the top, Republican or Democrat, I just keep churning along and doing my job. I guess that is true of the federal government too.