WHEN YOU DECIDE YOU'RE TIRED OF HAVING THE ADULTS IN CHARGE...:

Critics blast foreign policy transition (BEN SMITH, 2/6/09, Politico)

[A]fter days of silence, Zinni learned that he was instead being offered the post of Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

"I said, 'You can stick that with whatever other offers,'" he recalled saying. Zinni's account roiled foreign policy circles Thursday, and drew rare public criticism of Obama from leading Democratic voices outside the administration.

"They handled this in an extremely amateurish way and then they compound this by letting the world know that they don't really care who's ambassador to Saudi Arabia," said Flynt Leverett, a senior Clinton Administration foreign policy official, who said the transition had been characterized by such "stumbles."

"It is astounding to me," he said. "It does appear like there are some real struggles going on."

...you oughtn't act shocked that the replacement runs like the He-Man Woman-Hater's Club.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 6, 2009 7:53 AM