Greg Craig To Be White House Counsel

I don't know about his qualifications but the name is AWESOME lol

Oh wait I do remember the guy. There are some pretty good stories about him acting like McCain in the debate preps. Ill see if I can pull that stuff up

Still off topic, and ranting up the TSA.
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The article Schneier refers to, Jeffery Goldbergs, is really quite good.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security/2

KT
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I do vaguely remember his involvement in the impeachment but the truth is I didnt even bother to read the whole post because I just know I am going to enjoy reporters saying the name "Greg Craig" for the next four years. Hopefully they won't have to say it a lot though lol

KT
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Well I think we will hear about him a lot in reference to what they are going to do about GITMO. At least I am HOPING his name comes up in connection with that story. I would love seeing Journos trying to look somber and serious talking about shutting down GITMO and then having to say Greg Craig repeatedly without switching up his name

KT said Craig "Has known the Clintons since they were dating in law school, and (have I mentioned?) was trusted enough by them to handle impeachment in the Senate, but endorsed Obama early. "
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Refreshing isn't it to be discovering these folks who actually have minds of their own.

I think this is a good pick. From what I remember, Craig is brilliant and no-nonsense.

It's great when we can all come together around puppies.
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Karen - do you have thoughts about the releasing of all these names before they're "officially" released? Has this become a leaky operation, or is this intentional?

From Newsweek about Greg Craig
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At Obama's debate rehearsals, held repeatedly through the late summer and with increasing frequency and intensity in September, the role of McCain was played by Gregory Craig—the ace Washington lawyer dubbed as one of "the Kool-Aid boys" by a bemused Obama back in 2006. After urging Obama to run, Craig had become an informal foreign-policy adviser to him. A trial lawyer, Craig was agile and could, if necessary, come on strong. The expectation was that McCain would condescend to Obama as a wet-behind-the-ears rookie, so Craig played his role accordingly. "Do not lecture me about the war," Craig-as-McCain said, glowering at Obama, in debate prep. "Do not tell me how to deploy men in combat. I was flying a jet over Vietnam when you were in grade school."

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Also, I'm just watching my recording of the evening of November 4 (okay, I'm addicted - but I was also so tired that night from an all-night work stint on Monday that I couldn't stay awake, so I recorded things).
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Anyway, Matthews is saying that "they"'ve decided they don't want retreads from previous administrations - they want people who are new and young, and bipartisan. So what's with all the retreads? Was Chris just talking through his hat, or have they bumped up against the reality the prime Democratic names were all in the Clinton administration, or are we seeing mostly transition people?
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I remember a good many administrations where the people coming in were very new. At least in the cabinet, and that may still be true.

KT - teehee. But it does seem to me that everybody that's been announced so far was announced before s/he was announced: Emanuel, Jarrett, Craig, Biden's guy, maybe Clinton.

Oh, yes, he was an early convert,

Gregory Craig, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., was one of those Americans who wanted to believe again. Craig was not exactly an ordinary citizen—he had served and worked with the powerful all his life, as an aide to Sen. Edward Kennedy in the 1980s, as chief of policy planning at the State Department in the Clinton administration and as a lawyer hired to represent President Clinton at his impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate in 1999. He had seen the imperfections of the mighty, up close and personal, and by and large accepted human frailty. But, like a lot of Americans, he was tired of partisan bickering and yearned for someone who could rise above politics as usual. A 63-year-old baby boomer, Craig wanted to recapture the youthful idealism that he had experienced as a student at Harvard in the 1960s and later at Yale Law School, where his friends included Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham. In the late fall of 2003, he was invited to hear a young state senator from Illinois who was running for the U.S. Senate. Craig was immediately taken with Barack Obama. "He spoke 20 to 30 minutes, and I found him to be funny, smart and very knowledgeable for a state senator," Craig recalled. Craig was so visibly impressed that his host that evening, the longtime Washington mover and shaker Vernon Jordan, teased him, saying, "Greg has just fallen in love."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582?tid=relatedcl

Also - since there's been public airing of the increased threats (even on The Page) - is there a feeling among your colleagues that Obama's going to be the heard but not seen President?
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I'm surprised there are more threats, actually. I guess a lot of the crazies didn't think we'd really do this.
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I'm hoping somebody's wrapping those little girls pretty tightly...

KT-
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There are rumblings of an atriot get-together for the inauguration. There is much overlap between here and there....

KT - I might end up making it to DC after all. My nephew lives near College Park. My sister and brother-in-law plan to come up from KY. I wasn't planning on going, but I might end up with the best chance for tickets, since there are fewer Vermonters. I didn't sign up until yesterday, and Leahy's office said they'd had 900 requests, but I'm hoping the other 899 people signed up at all three offices, as I did, and that what with attrition etc. I might luck out. There was some talk in the paper about having a lottery for the tickets, though Leahy's office thought they'd do first come, first served.
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But the long and short of it is I might be down, and will of course keep you posted. I think having the first Swampland reunion during the Inaugural week would be fantastic.

kathy
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Honestly I am not surprised at all. In fact I have to say if I am surprised by anything its that there havent been MORE arrests of people threatening harm to Obama. After the way they were whipped up into a frenzy in the last 2 months of the election by Sarah Palin and John McCain I actually thought we would have heard MORE about the crazies doing crazy stuff. It still makes my blood boil but I just keep praying that the SS knows what they are doing

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What're your thoughts about tickets/no tickets. I'm assuming there are going to be millions there, per your last post on the topic. In fact being one of 240,000 with tickets would be bizarre enough.
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How many people does the mall hold, do you know?

Also offtopic-
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KT and Jay Rosen will be joining me this Thursday at my weekly <a href="http://www.inworldstudios.com/vs" Second Life interview program simulcast on BlogTalkRadio. 6PM Pacific/9PM
Eastern. If you want to ask questions, you have to be in SL. I can't handle a radio switchboard as well as IM questions.
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We'll talk about the campaign coverage, and the future of journalism.
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And Twitter will come up, given how active Jay R is in that regard.

preview...
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www/inworldstudios.com/vs
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