Mona Charen was expecting Huey Newton:
If the economic team is centrist, the foreign policy team (and I pinch myself as I say this) leans a little to the right. Did you notice that in introducing his choices, the president-elect used the term "defeat our enemies"? … And that, along with the other appointments, is enough to keep some of us smiling at a time when we were expecting to be in deep anguish.
Did Charen not hear Obama promise to defeat our enemies in the debates? Did she never read his iconic Iraq speech where he said he wasn’t against war, just dumb wars? Or were her ears and eyes clogged with partisanship?
The Dish 