Sen. Hillary Clinton’s advisory panels are mostly old retreads from her husband’s administration who retain the belief that she will return to the White House. These are not team members of a Clinton administration but those seeking to regain their power base and over-remembered youth. . . .
Obama is surrounded by failed policymakers, including unreformed Students for Democratic Society leader Bill Ayers, now an education professor; Susan Rice, who, while at the State Department alienated the Eritrean Americans so that all 270,000-plus voted in bloc against Al Gore and was so slow that Osama bin Laden escaped the Sudanese police; and Tony Lake, who changed his mind at his nomination hearing as Bill Clinton’s CIA director.
We’re not hearing as much about McCain’s advisers, for some reason.