James Steinberg

Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dennis Ross, William Burns, Thomas Donilon, Leon Panetta, David Rothkopf, James Jones, Fareed Zakaria, James Cartwright, Barack Obama, John Hamre, Machiavelli, Jim Jones, Ivo Daalder, James Steinberg, Richard Holbrooke, Leslie Gelb, National Security Decision Making, National Security Advisor, Tom Donilon, Richard Haass, Politics News
Steve Clemons

After the announcement that Tom Donilon would succeed General Jim Jones as President Obama's National Security Adviser, Donilon went from being the busiest man in the White House to the even-busier busiest man. This is good, and bad, news.

Read Post

Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward Luce, Valerie Jarrett, Policymaking, ABC's the Note, Chicago, Mike Allen, US Foreign Policy, Denis McDonough, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Financial TImes, James Steinberg, David Axelrod, Tom Daschle, Politico, Tom Donilon, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Gregory Craig, Brent Scowcroft, Fareed Zakaria, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Arianna Huffington, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Serious critiques of the internal game around Obama have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing, and people need to consider why.

Read Post

Clinton State Department Being Filled With Loyalists

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton State Department, Clinton State Department, Clinton Loyalists State Department, James Steinberg, Clinton State Department Hires, Clinton State Department Staff, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Preparing for her new role as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to surround herself with a cast of die-hard loya...

Read Whole Story

Colin Powell for Middle East Envoy -- Dennis Ross for US Ambassador to Israel?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dennis Ross, James Woolsey, Thomas Donilon, Colin Powell, Bob Gates, Palestine, Chuck Hagel, Hamas, Middle East Peace Process, Robert Satloff, Jim Jones, Barack Obama, Warren Christopher, Iran, Richard Armitage, Susan Rice, James Steinberg, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Gregory Craig, Richard Lugar, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Colin Powell could be the person asked to do the broad negotiating and arm twisting to achieve the Obama administration's foreign policy objectives with Iran and in Arab-Israel peace negotiations.

Read Post