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Barack's Team Stacked With Bill's People

Posted Sep 17, 07 1:39 PM CDT in US,  Politics 

(Newser) – Belying the rebel image that his campaign has sculpted out of his relative lack of political experience, the formidable team surrounding Barack Obama is full of Democratic policy veterans. Oddly enough, given the identity of his his main rival, many of them are pulled from the top ranks of the Clinton administration, the Chicago Tribune reports.

These include Anthony Lake, Clinton's first national security adviser, Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general, and Susan Rice, a protege of Madeleine Albright as assistant secretary of state. Obama currently has over 700 experts on foreign and domestic policy on his roster, a number election experts say is highly unusual for the primary season.

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Susan E. Rice of the Brookings Institution testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)   (Associated Press)
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Presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses the Executive Council of New York at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square Monday Sept. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)   (Associated Press)
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