{"id":1404,"date":"2008-11-24T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/this-is-very-exciting-melody-barnes-now-a-top-advisor-to-president-elect-obama-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-decent-an\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:48:57","slug":"this-is-very-exciting-melody-barnes-now-a-top-advisor-to-president-elect-obama-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-decent-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/this-is-very-exciting-melody-barnes-now-a-top-advisor-to-president-elect-obama-is-one-of-the-most-impressive-decent-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Economic Team, Yeah They’re Good But I’m Excited about Melody!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Melody<\/a> I started writing about this as the announcement was made and got called away.  Now I discover that my friend and very wise colleague PunditMom<\/a> has basically said everything I would have said – so go read her evaluation<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

I still want, though, to share my sense of this remarkable woman.  It's very exciting.  Melody Barnes, now a top adviser to President-Elect Obama, is one of the most impressive, decent and unpretentious people I've worked with in Washington or anywhere else.  She's smart, she's interesting, always open, funny and committed.  She is a wonderful choice.  Since she's been working with the transition for some time it's no surprise, but it still says a lot that she's there.  Here's a interview with her that will give you an idea of her thinking and of the way she responds; calm, orderly, thoughtful and usually, wise.<\/p>\n

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\nNot much detail, I know. My own experiences with her were peripheral and intermittent but this I know:  her presence in the Administration is yet another piece of evidence supporting what I wrote yesterday<\/a>.  The values, outlook and core of this Administration offer more and more hope that they're bringing smart, capable and "no drama*" people with them as they take over in these very difficult times.<\/p>\n

*Yeah, yeah I know but Larry Summers<\/a> is just one guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started writing about this as the announcement was made and got called away.  Now I discover that my friend and very wise colleague PunditMom has basically said everything I would have said – so go read her evaluation.  I still want, though, to share my sense of this remarkable woman.  It's very exciting.  Melody … Continue reading Obama’s Economic Team, Yeah They’re Good But I’m Excited about Melody!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,7,9,29],"tags":[1004,1003,596,1006,1005,92,21],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-life","category-politics","category-women","tag-domestic-adviser","tag-economic-team","tag-economy","tag-larry-summers","tag-melody-barnes","tag-obama","tag-politics-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-mE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}